1S98-1002. No. 2.] VASCULAR PLANTS OF ELLESMERELAND. 



head, some, however, had one or two additional ones from the axils 

 of the upper stemleaves. Aug. 8th, 1900, both specimens in full flower 

 as well as such as had already ceased to flower, were found on open, 

 sunny, grass-clad ledges of rock; in the shade of an adjacent gully, the 

 plant still stood in bud. As I had no occasion to revisit the only place 

 where I found this species, I have had no opportunity to note if it de- 

 velops its fruits. The NARES-expedition only gathered the leaves of it 

 on Bellot Island; Greely, however, notes the flowers of it as early as 

 June 27lh, but observes that it flowered late near the sea. 



Grows mostly on grassy rock ledges, also in clay soil. 



Occurrence. Grinnell Land: Bellot Island in Lady Franklin Bay 

 (leg. Feilden), Hart; from the coast to 1500 feet, Greely. Southern 

 coast: Harbour Fjord, ledges of the Seagull Rock (2585). 



Distribution: Northeastern Greenland, West Greenland from 

 Foulkefjord, 78° 20' southwards to 64° 10', Arctic American Archipelago, 

 Arctic America, Labrador, Canada (?), Rocky Mountains(?), Unalaschka, 

 Arctic Asia from the land of the Chukches to the Gyda tundra, Novaja 

 Semlja, Spitsbergen, Northern Scandinavia. 



From Alaska, Rocky Montains, and other more southern localities, 

 I have, especially in the herbarium of the Nat. Hist. Mus., seen several 

 specimens, determined as A. alpina, but certainly not belonging to the 

 common arctic form. Perhaps it is only a variety of it, but I should 

 be more inclined to think that there is an underscribed species distri- 

 buted in those regions. In Decandolle, Prodr. VI, p. 317, also under 

 A. angustifolia, Vahl, the following observation is to be found: "Folia 

 specim. Groenlandicorum integerrima, sinus Laurentii denticulata, duas 

 forte species indicant". The specimens from southern latitudes are dist- 

 inguished not only by the dentate leaves, but also by a feebler villosity, 

 especially of the bracts of the involucre, broader rays, long-petiolate 

 leaves and by a coarser rhizome. I have seen no specimens intermediate 

 between A. alpina and A. montana, L. that could warrant its being 

 placed as a variety under the latter species. 



Antennaria alpina, (L.) Gaertn. 



A. alpina, Gaertner, Fruct. et sem. plant, 1791; Lange, Consp. Fl. Groeill.; Kruuse, 

 List E. Greenl.; Nathorst, N. W. Gionl.; R. Brown, Chlor. Melv. ; Hooker, 

 Fl. Bor. Araer. ; Britton & Brown, 111. Fl. ; Simmons, Prel. Rep. et Bot. Arb. ; 

 Kjellman, in Vegaexp. ; Ledebour, Fl. Ross.; Gnaphalium alpinum, Linnaeus, 

 Sp. plant,, 1753. 



Fig. Fl. Dan., T. 2786. 



