82 MoHTKN P,. PoilSII.D. 



Wiili'ly tIisli-ihiiliMl in Wcst-CirtMMilaiMi, railler a ii n li li t- 1' ii type, 

 t)ii I lit' West coast hccoiniiii,' scarcc soulh of 1)4°, and mi Ihc casl. coasl, 

 if <t'tMns [o Im' vtM'V rare soutli ut tii*"^. 



.Nott': y. niilicatuni iio doiibl iiirliKJcs scxrrai small species as 

 alr«»a<ly indir'ated l)y Simmons and others. 'I'lu' wliilc-llowerod variety 

 is cominoii lar iiito I lir imitli. Iml vcry rare. already in our area. On 

 arcount of its oeeurence in patches and i'oi- otiier reasons, loo, il seems 

 In 1)1' here<litary conslant. 



Flowers and l'riiits abnndantly. Many IViiils arc (IcNdiind Itcfoj-e 

 ripening Ity hirds, Tor instance ptarmiijans and snow-hnntings. 



Ililiernafes often snowless. 



XXII. Cruciferae. 



I Kil. Cardamine bellidifolia L. (C. sinuata (\'\iii) Rowlee 



^; WlKGAND). 



On nioist sand and clay, iii l»ll -Held and new moraine; bare spots 

 on tlie healh, rarer among grasses in manuicd soil. 



Throughonl Hm- whole area from the coast to the snow-line, bnt 

 from rolatively tVw piaces; nndoubtedly not because of being rare, 

 but only overlooked. 



Widely distributed in Greenland althongh rather a northern 

 type; in the sonthmost part of Greenland only exceptionally from flu' 

 Iowland (Hos.). 



Abnndantly flowering and frniting. 



rndoiibh'div eo\'ered bv snow durinir the winlei-. 



look. 



I U)2. Cardamine pratensis L. vai. angustifolia 



In nioist rnoss-bogs, at the horders of small lakes often partly 

 siibnn'rse; sometinies in shallow brooks. 



F)islribnted through the whole area, most fre(pit'iil in llii- sonthern 

 part. but nowhere common. .\ow and then occnrring iii small patches. 



Widely ranging in Greenland without sonthern limit: and no 

 doul)t without nortlh'iii jiuiit, too, being found far iioilh ml o l']|Irs- 

 mereland. The scattered occurrence is no doiihl (Iih' hi Ihc laet Ihal 

 Ihe plant does nol Iruit anywiirr-t' in GrftnljuMK bul disper.ses itself 

 only in vegetative manner, by (l.iiduous leallets. 



L'sually flowering, though hardly in iinfavoinablt' piaces. 



The flowering is specially dependent on iIm' timr of the melting 

 of the snow. 



