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lished in his excellent arrangement of the genus in Ledebour (1. c), which 

 I think superior to that of Maximowicz, which is adopted by Wettstein 

 in Engler & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 



From the nearest allied edentate species, P. hirsuta, our plant is 

 well defined both by its habit and by its specific characters. It is easily 

 distinguished by the stiff, erect stem (solitary in most Ellesmereland 

 specimens, numerous in most specimens from Greenland), by the glabrous 

 deeply incised, fernlike leaves, the rachis of which is not nearly so broad 

 as in P. hirsuta and P. ardica; lastly by the very dense spike, with 

 the thick, woolly clothing, which is retained even in the fruiting state 

 of the plant. The corolla has a rosy colour, is much larger than in 

 P. hirsuta and rather open, but the lips are equally long. The 

 upper forms a galea that is not cucuUate but rather spoon-shaped. 

 When fully developed, the style is not included, but protrudes from the 

 galea. The capsule is very short and broad, and more oblique than in 

 the other species. 



P. lanata grew mostly in rather wet places having a dense vegeta- 

 tion, but it was also found on gravelly bottom, along rivers together 

 with Carices. Outside the archaean district I only found it in one 

 place. Was (1900) in flower from the end of June to the end of July. 



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

 South coast: Fram Fjord (1649); in the Harbour Fjord it was rather 

 common in grassy slopes (2114, 2174, 2186, 4261); Muskox Fjord in 

 wet slopes in the innermost part and in the bottom of the river valley 

 on gravelly soil. 



Distribution: Western Greenland down to 61^, Arctic American 

 Archipelago, western Arctic America, Rocky Mountains, islands of the 

 Bering Sea, Arctic Siberia, Kamshatka, Northern Ural, Novaja Semlja, 

 Spitsbergen. 



Pedicularis arctica, R. Br. 



p. ardica, Rob. Brown. Chlor. Melv., 1823; Durand, PI. Kan. : P. Langsdorfi, Steven. 

 Monogr. Ped., exp. ; Chamisso & Schlechtendal, PI. RoniantzofT. ; Hooker, Fl.Bor, 

 Amer., ex. p.; Ledebour, F1. Ross.; Maximowicz, Diagn. plant, as.; Kjellman, in 

 Vegaexp. 



Fig. Tab. nostra 2, fig. 4—6. 



In his description of the new species of Pedicularis brought home 

 by Parry from Melville Island 1820, Rob. Brown says: "Corolla pur- 

 purea, glaberrima: galea leviter falcata, obtusa, ante apice oblique trun- 

 cata et ad truncatura basin utrinque dente unico acuto brevi quandoque 



