26 H. G. SIMMONS. [sec. arct. exp. fram 



of soulh-weslern Ellesmereland, where such locaUties are scarce and 

 wliere it was looked for in vain. 



Occurrence. East coast, outer j)arts of tlie Hayes Sound district: 

 slopes of the high land of Cape Rutherford towards the lakes (323), the 

 ''green patch" at the north side of Fram Harbour (1091). It would 

 doubtless have been found also in the interior of Hayes Sound, had 

 I only had any opportunities of going there later in the summer. South 

 coast. Harbour Fjord in several places (2156, 2227, 2243, 2590). 



Distribution: North-eastern Greenland, West Greenland, Arctic 

 American Archipelago, Arctic America, Rocky Mountains, St. Paul Island, 

 Novaja Semlja, Spitsbergen, Scandinavian mountains, Iceland. 



Scrophulariaceae.- 



Pedicularis capitata, Adams. 



p. capitata, Adams, Descr. plant, min. cogn., 1817; Steven, Monogr. Ped. ; Lange, 

 Consp. Fl. Groenl. ; Hart, Bot. Pr. Pol. Exp. ; Greely, Rep. ; Simmons, Prel. 

 Rep.; Hooker, Fl. Bor. Amer. ; Britton & Brown, 111. Fl.; Kjellman, in Vega- 

 exp. ; Ledebour, Fl. Ross. ; P. Nelsoni, R. Brown, in Richardson, App. 

 Franklin I. 



Fig. Hooker, Bot. App. Parry 11, T. 1, fig. 1— .5. 



My specimens fully accord with the figures. This species differs 

 from all other arctic Pedicularis by having a creeping rhizome. The 

 stems have developed leaves only at the base, generally they stand 

 single, sometimes however in denser groups, always accompanied by 

 numerous leafy, but sterile shoots. The leaves are generally twice pin- 

 nately divided, the bracts are more or less reduced from the shape of 

 the vegetative leaves, in especially luxuriant specimens they also show a 

 tendency to acquire the double pinnate lamina of the basal leaves. The 

 flowers in a capitate cluster, generally four in individuals from marshy 

 localities w'here the plant was usually found. But in individuals from 

 dry places, they were only 1 — 2, as Greely describes the Grinnell Land 

 plant (the figure in Britton & Brown, 1. c, depicts such a reduced 

 state). The yellow flow^ers are pointed upwards, very large compared 

 with the size of the plant, with a long tube and upturned lower lip. 

 The capsule I have not seen, as the plants seems hardly to develop its 

 fruit in Ellesmereland. 



P. capitata is placed in the group Sceptra of the Anodontae by 

 Maximowicz (Diagn. plant, as., p. 83), but Bunge in Ledebour, 1. c, who 

 has placed P. Sceptrum carolimim, L. in a sub-genus Sceptrum, puts 



