The Flora ol' Disko Island and Adjacent (<oast of West Greenland. 49 



i 67. Cobresia lipartita (Ai>L. ) Dalla ToRRK {(\ caricina\NiLi.B.). 



C)n warm rock-ledges, sunny and rather dry heath and from the 

 outskirt of thickets. 



Disko: Lyngmarken at Godhavn 69°15' (Th. Fr.). 



Mainland: Here and there, but the rather numerous localities form together 

 a continuous area of distribution ; from the fjords inland from Holsteinborg l'ollovv- 

 ing the interior part of the gneiss-land to Nugssuaq peninsula and here only in 

 the gneissic part northwards to the interior of the Nordost-Bugt. 



The northmost locality is on Ubekendt Ejland 71°12' (P.). 



South of this domain known quite isolated at 64^45'. Otherwise 

 not found till the southern coast of Ellesmere Land and on the east 

 <;oast of Greenland at 71° and 73°20'. 



Seems thus to be a northern type. 



Abundantly flowering and fruiting. 



Undoiditedly snowless now and then. 



I 68. Carex nardina Fr. 



In barren, sandy and gravelly piaces; on open heath and often 

 characterizing this vegetation, but rare in stony soil. 



Very common in the basalt and sandstone areas from the coast 

 to the snow-line; scarcer in the gneiss-land and often absent in vigo- 

 rous, dense vegetation of the lowland, but to be found on the hills or 

 in barren piaces. This is especially the case in the great fjords, but 

 occasionally also to be found here in the lowland for instance, on gravelly 

 river-banks or on the slopes of marine layers of clay, where they have 

 been cut through by streams. 



Has neither southern nor northern limit in Greenland, but is scarce 

 in South Greenland, and here it is to be reckoned as an Alpine species, 

 only occasionally and by chance descending into the lowland. 



Abundantly flowering and fruiting. 



No doubt often snowless during winter. The living part of the 

 plant, however, is very well guarded by the compact, involuted 

 remains of the leaf-sheaths. 



A 69. Carex capitata Sol. 



In sandy soil, open spots on the heath, rock-ledges and clefts. 



Disko: Only seen a few times in the gneiss-domain of the south coast (P.). 



Mainland: Paotut 7()°1'2' (Htz.); from Torssukåtak southwards there is a 

 great many localities as well in the inland as, for instance, in the archipelago of Ege- 

 desminde. Nevertheless we did not see it in N. Strømfjord nor in the fjords inland 

 from Holsteinsborg, though observed here several times by other collectors. 



A southern type, north of the area only known from two loca- 

 lities in the interior part of the Nordost-Bugt. 



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