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also some individuals may attain to flowering already in the first summer, 

 and thus become annual. Biennial, many individuals certainly are, as 

 I have often seen them wither after the seed had ripened. Individuals 

 which had stood in bloom in the autumn and continued their develop- 

 ment in the next spring, such as Kjellman, Polarv. lif, p. 478—81, 

 mentions from Pitlekaj, I have never seen, although I paid special 

 attention to such individuals. I think it must have been a rather isolated 

 case which Kjellman has observed, the more so as I have not found it 

 in any other plant either. Flowers and inflorescences that had been 

 surprised by the frost of the beginning of winter, would soon fade 

 when they thawed, even though they appeared to be quite fresh. In 

 some Saxifraga species this was often seen (cf. above). 



Occurrence. North coast : Floeberg Beach (Hart). Grinnell 

 Land: St. Patrick's Bay, Watercourse Bay, Discovery Harbour (Hart, 

 Greely). Hayes Sound region, common: specimens from: Fram Harbour 

 (293, 1099, 1164), Cocked Hat Island (1270), Brevoort Island (1207, leg. 

 Foshelm). Southern east coast: Cape Isabella, leg. Hayes according to 

 DuRAND, I.e., Gape Faraday (Wetherill). South coast: common except 

 for the Harbour Fjord, where it was only found in the Barren Vallies. 

 Specimens from : Fram Fjord (1639), Goose Fjord (2871, 2892, 2988, 3483). 

 West coast: noted at Reindeer Cove and Lands Fnd. 



Distribution: The present variety is spread all over the Arctic 

 Regions, to the South in company with other varieties. The main 

 species goes down into the Temperate Region, especially in Europe, 

 where it is found even on the shores of the Mediterranean. 



Papa vera cea. 

 Papaver radicatum, Rottb. 



p. radicatum, RottbOll, Pi. IsL Gronl., 1770; Murbeck, Hybr. ; Kruuse, List E. 

 Greenl.; Axderssox & Hesselman, Spetsb. karlv. ; P. nudicaule, Laxge, Consp. 

 Fl. Groenl. ; Nathorst, N. W. Gronl.; Hart, Bot. Br. Pol. Exp.; Greely 

 Rep.; Hooker, Fl. Bor. Amer. ; Kjellman, in Vegaexp. ; P. alpinnm a nucli- 

 caide, Ledebour, Fl. Ross. ; P. alpinuni, Hart, Bot. Br. Pol. Exp. ; Brittox & 

 Brown, 111. Fl., non Linnaeus. 



Fig. RoTTBOLL, 1. c, T. 8, fig. 24; Fl. Dan., T. 41. 



Murbeck has (1. c, p. 7 — 9), clearly shown that the name P. nudi- 

 caule which has been commonly used for our plant, cannot apply to it, 

 but that the name P. radicatum must be used in its stead. 



Probably however, there might also be separated several specimens 

 within the form-series of P. radicatum as here understood. But as 



