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of being furnished with teeth — a characteristic never found in the spe- 

 cies, as it belongs to the section Anodontae. 



P. hirsuta bears a greater resemblance to a species of the section 

 Bidentatae, namely P. arctica, R. Br., and a confusion between the 

 two could easily arise if the teeth in the apex of the galea (with which 

 the latter species is furnished) are not observed. 



P. hirsuta grows chiefly in grassy places, rock-ledges as well as 

 in evener loamy ground, by the side of brooks, etc., but also in more 

 open gravely places. It seems hardly to be in flower before the end of 

 June, and in August specimens still flowering are to be found together 

 with such as already have ripe and opened capsules. 



Occurrence. Grinnell Land: Discovery Harbour, leg. Hart(!), 

 Shift Rudder Bay, leg. Feilden(!). Hayes Sound district: rather commen 

 but in general not plentiful. Specimens from : Fram Harbour (281, 

 1107), Cape Rutherford (685), Twin Glacier Valley (878), South coast: 

 somewhat less common: specimens from Fram Fjord (1651), Harbour 

 Fjord (2232), Goose Fjord (2880, 3647, 3956). 



Distribution: East and West Greenland except in the south, 

 Arctic American Archipelago, Arctic America, Siberia, Novaja Semlja, 

 Spitsbergen, Arctic Russia, Northern Scandinavia. 



Pedicularis lanata, Cham. & Schlecht. 



p. lanata, Chamisso & Schlechtendal, PI. Romanzoff., 1827; Lange, Consp. FL Groeni.; 

 Nathorst, N.- W. Gronl.; Simmons, Prel. Rep. et Rot. Arb.; Kjellman, in 

 Vegaexp.; Ledebour, F1. Ross.; Andersson & Hesselman, Spetsb. karlv. ; P. 

 Langsdorfi, Steven, Monogr. Ped., ex p. et ^5; Hooker, F1. Ror. Amer., ex p.; 

 P.Langsdorfi van lanata, Greely, Rep.; P. Kanei, Durand, PI. Kan.; P. hir- 

 suta, Hart, Rot. Rr. Pol Exp.; Taylor, F1. pi. Raffin R.; non Linnaeus. 

 Fig. Fl. Dan., T. 1821; Tab. nostra 2, fig. 1—3. 



It is rather curious, that such a beautiful and distinct species should 

 not always have been easily distinguished ; nevertheless, several authors 

 have confounded it w^ith P. arctica, R. Br. (P. Langsdorfi) or with P. 

 hirsuta, L. The latter mistake is made by Durand, who in PI. Kan. 

 has the name P. lanata as a synonym for P. hirsida and consequently 

 he has set up what was really P. lanata as a new species P. Kanei 

 (cf. Asa Gray, PI. Rocky Mtns., p. 251, and Maximowicz, Diagn. plant, 

 as. II). There can be no doubt of this, when the notes about the 

 Pedicularis-iovms in the above-quoted papers are compared. The real 

 P. lanata was first brought home from the Bering Sea region, and the 

 name is first used in herbarium labels by Willdenow and Pallas, but 



