Flowering Piants and Feras from Nortli-Western Greenland. 29 



I rely mainly upon Simmons and myself, but have also made use of 

 other statements whenever I have found them reasonably well founded. 

 If we examine the list more closely, it appears that the mam bulk 

 of species are of a wide distribution in arctic countries, but some show 

 a more restricted area of occurrence. 



I . Three (3) species are endemic,i. e. not found outside of Greenland : 

 *Braya Thor ild- Wiilffii (only found on the north coast and on Ger- 



mania land). 



*Taraxacum arctogemim (found from c. 69° N. on the west coast 

 northwards to the north coast). 

 *Melandriiim triflorum. 



The two first have only been found in North-Greenland and 

 on the northern west-coast, while Melandrium triflorum is widely distri- 

 buted in Greenland both on the east and the west coast. 



The Braija and Taraxacum are so cailed "critical" species, that 

 means that they are closely related to other species, and they have only 

 quite recently been described. It is quite probable that they will be 

 found in the surrounding countries when further investigations are 

 carried on. 



With regard to Melandrium trifloruni, this well defined species 

 has been reported from several piaces in the arctic North- America, 

 but the identifications are all wrong what I have been able to ascertain 

 upon the specimens present in different herbaria. Nevertheless the 

 species cannot any longer be considered really endemic for Greenland, 

 as the Lychnis triflora^ var. Dawsonii B. L. Robinson, from the Dease 

 River, British Columbia, ca. 59° N. Lat. is so near to it, that it hardly 

 deserve to be kept as a special variety. 



Melandrium triflorum ought therefore really better be placed into 

 the Group III, and I feel sure that the same may be the case in the fu- 

 ture with regard to the two other "endemic" species. 



II. Six (6) species show on eastern area of occurrence outside 

 of Greenland, viz. : 



*Draba Adamsii (D. oblongata). 

 * Taraxacum arcticum. 

 Ranunculus glacialis. 

 Arenaria ciliata pseudofrigida. 

 Carex saxatilis (C. pulla). 

 Dryas octopetala^ var. 

 Of these the distribution of Draba Adamsii is not known with 

 certainity as the plant may have been confused with other spe- 

 cies of the genus. Hitherto is has been found on the north coast and 

 on Inglefield Land, N. W. (Dallas Bay, ca. 79° N.), and further on the 

 arctic islands north of Europe and on the arctic coastal region of Siberia. 



