The Flora of Disko Island and Adjacent Coast of West Greenland. 75 



Widely distributed in Greenland without southern, and probably 

 also' without northern limit. 



Flowers and fructificates abiindantly. 

 Hibernates covered by snow and often by ice. 



± 136. Stellaria borealis Big. (^S"^. alpestris Hartm. 



St. calycantha Led eb.). 



In vigorous herb-slopes and copses. 



Disko: Only at the hot springs on the south coast near Godhavn and in the- 

 great valleys in the inland; from many piaces in Diskofjord (P.), in Mellemfjord 

 at Kuånit and Ikorfarssuit 69°44' (P.); Mudderbugt (P.). 



Mainland: Recorded from Egedesminde by Sørensen, but in vain searched 

 for by us both here and in a great many much more favourable piaces (P. & E.). 

 Found in Ikertoq-Fjord 67°50' (Rink.; Korn.). 



A decided southern type; the above-mentioned piaces on Disko 

 represent the northern limit; not common till soiith of 61°30' (Ros.). 

 Abimdantly flowering and fruiting. 

 Hibernates covered by snow, often by ice. 



I 187. Stellaria longipes Goldil. (Incl. St. Edwarsii Hook. 



In almost all sorts of soil, right from the sand and dimes of the 

 sea-shore, the settlements, the manured soil of the fowling-cliffs and 

 -islets and to the heath- and rock-vegetation, ascending to the fell- 

 field near the inland-ice. 



Often forming extensive patches and conquering piaces where the 

 grass is peeled off: building sites, garden plots and the like. In the gar- 

 dens it becomes a troublesome and ineradicable weed. 



Very common throughout the whole area. 



Widely difTused in Greenland with neither northern nor southern 

 limit. 



Abundantly flowering, but very seldom fruiting. 



Only in unfavourable piaces not covered by snow in winter. 



A 13S. Cerastium cerastioides (L.) Britt. {C. trigy mim Will.). 



On moist clay- and sand-spots on the heath and very often as a 

 pioneer on newly-formed moraine; in bogs and at the springs. 



Disko: Common on the southern part of the island and in the two southmost 

 fjords and the valleys there. Along the west coast rarer. On the Waygat-coast rare,, 

 only on the southern part. 



Hare (P.). 



Mainland: From Waygal duwn the Disko-Bay-coast in spots, not as common 

 as on Disko. Rather rare in the archipelago of Egedesminde, Qeqertarssuatsiaq 

 68°23' (P. & E.), not noticed by us in any locality in N. Strømfjord, but no doubt 

 to bo found on the hills in suitable piaces. 



