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Mainland: N. Strømfjord, Eqaluarssuit 67°36' (P. &- E.); herefrom not ob- 

 served till Godthaabsfjord, and southwards more frequent. 



A decided southern type; the above mentioned piaces are the 

 northern limit. 



Usiially flowering and ocasionally fruiting. Forms winter-buds. 

 Hibernates abundantly covered by snow and ice. 



A 216. Chamaenerium angustifolium (L.) Spach. 



(Epil. spicatum Lam.). 

 In herb-mats and at the edge of copses. 



Disko: The south coast, near Godhavn, eastwards along the coast in several 

 piaces; at least east of Skansen 69°25'; the inner part of Diskofjord on the northern 

 side 69°30'— 35'. 



Mainland: Christianshaab 68°45' (Giesecke); s. o. Manermiut 68°30' (K.); 

 N. Strømfjord; Tiggaq (Sør.), Eqaluarssuit 67°36', very scarse (P. & E.); N. Isortoq 

 (V.); S. Kangerdluarssuk (W. & H.; Ros.); in the neighbourhood of Holsteinsborg 

 and in the fjords from several piaces, but everywhere scarce. Not common till south 

 of 64° (Ros.). 



A southern type; the above mentioned piaces represent the 

 northern limit. Records from Upernivik, by Kane, must be considered 

 as improbable. 



Within the area only in the lowland. 



Usually late, but abundantly flowering; but Strange to say it is 

 nowhere in Greenland observed fruiting, hence totally deprived of 

 the power of migration. 



The variety intermedium (Wormskj.) Lange, as defmed by Lange 

 seems to me hardly to deserve the name. I rather suppose that Worm- 

 SK.iOLD has been t hinking of a hybrid between Ch. angustifolium and 

 latijolium. 



I 217. Chamaenerium latifolium (L.) Spacu. 



In very difierent kinds of soil, but most vigorously on sand in and 

 by water-courses and river-deltas. Here it forms extensive patches, 

 visible far away during the flowering season. Also in not too dry heath 

 and fell-field. 



Very common throughout the whole area. 



Widely distributed in Greenland with neither northern nor south- 

 ern hmit, from the coast ascending to the snow-fields. 



Abundantly flowering, and in the lowland often fruiting, but fre- 

 quently so late that the capsules usually do not open till the fall of 

 snow. Often washed down from the highland by brooks. 



Perhaps sometimes snowless during winter. 



Varies according to the quality of the habitat. The variety steno- 



