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nion, specimens from: Skriillng Island (1368), Fram Harbour (1413), 

 Bedford Pirn Island (277). South coast, common, specimens from : 

 Harbour Fjord (2158, 2244, 2598), Goose Fjord (2887). West coast: 

 Reindeer Cove, Lands End, between Eidsfjord and Baumann Fjord, 

 Coal Bay. 



Distribution: Greenland, Arctic American Archipelago, Arctic 

 America, Labrador, Canada, New England Mountains, Rocky Mountains 

 to Colorado, Alaska, Islands of the Bering Sea, Arctic Siberia, Kam- 

 shatka, mountains of Asia, Caucasus, Northern Russia, Novaja Semlja, 

 Spitsbergen, Scandinavia, Denmark, Central European mountains. Great 

 Britain, Faeroes, Iceland, Jan Mayen. 



Oxyria digyna, (L.) Hill. 



Rumex digynns, Linnaeus, Sp. plant., 1753; Oxyria digyna, Hill, Hort. Kew., 

 1768; Lange, Consp. Fl. Groenl.; Kruuse, List E. Greenl.; Nathorst, N. W. 

 Gron].; Britton A; Browx, 111. Fl.; Kjellman, in Vegaexp.; Andersson & Hes- 

 SELMAN, Spetsb. karlv. ; Kruuse, Jan May. ; 0. reniformis, Hooker, Fl. Bor. 

 Amer.; Hart, Bot. Br. Pol. Exp.; Greely, Rep.; Ledebour, Fl. Ross.; Rheum 

 digynum, Wahlenberg, Fl. Lapp. 

 Fig. CaxMpdera, Mon. Rum., T. 3; Wahlenberg, 1. c, T. 9; Sv. Bot., 

 T. 692; Fl. Dan., T. 14. 



Generally at home in moist slopes with a dense vegetation, often 

 found also in gravelly places, or in clayey slopes, where it would 

 sometimes alone form the entire vegetation (Beitstad Fjord). In flower 

 after the middle of June and richly fruiting. 



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

 Land: Discovery Harbour and southwards to Princess Marie Bay (Hart, 

 Greely). Hayes Sound region, common, specimens from : Cape Ruther- 

 ford (309, 686, 1132), Fram Harbour (282, 1416), Bedford Pim Island 

 (262, 1195). Southern East coast: Cape Isabella and Gale Point (Hayes). 

 South coast, common, specimens from: Fram Fjord (Wetherill, 1645), 

 Harbour Fjord (2540), Goose Fjord (2998, 3327, 3332). West coast: 

 along the Hell Gate to Lands End, between Eidsfjord and Baumann 

 Fjord, Coal Bay, Braskerud Plain (706, leg. Isachsen). 



Distribution: Greenland, Arctic American Archipelago. Arctic 

 America, Labrador, White Mountains of New Hampshire, Rocky 

 Mountains to Colorado, Sitcha, Alaska, Islands of the Bering Sea, 

 Arctic Siberia, Kamshatka, Altai and other mountains, Caucasus, Arctic 

 Russia, Novaja Semlja, Spitsbergen, Scandinavian mountains, Central 

 and South European mountains, Great Britain, Faeroes, Iceland, Jan 

 Mayen. 



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