144 H. G. SIMMONS. fsEC. ARCT. EXP. FRAM 



Occurrence. Griiinell Land, Discovery Harbour (? Greely). 

 Hayes Sound region: "Fort Juliane" (680). South coast: Harbour 

 Fjord east of the anchorage (2228, 2537). West coast: Bays Fjord 

 (481, leg. Bay). 



Distribution: Northern East and West Greenland, Labrador to 

 British Columbia, Rocky Mountains to Colorado, Alaska, Baical region, 

 Altai, Yenissei district, Caucasus, Ural, Northern Russia, Novaja Semlja, 

 Spitsbergen, Northern Scandinavia, mountains of Central Europe, Scot- 

 land, Iceland. 



Carex aquatilis, Wahlenb. 

 var. stans, (Drej.) Boott. 



C. stans, Drejer, Rev. Car. bor., 1841; Laxge, Consp. Fl. Groenl.; Hart, Bot. Br. 

 Pol. Exp.: C aquatilis var. stans, Boott ex Bailey, Not. on Carex; Osten- 

 FELD, Fl. Arct.; C. aquatilis var. epigejos, Kjellma.n, in Vegaexp.; C. rigida, 

 Hart, 1. c. ; C. vulgaris var, hyperborea, Greely, Rep. ('?). 

 Fig. Fl. Dan., T. 2477. 



During my stay in Ellesmereland, I thought that the specimens 

 now referred here represented two species, but 1 have since arrived at 

 the conclusion, that not only the tall form growing in the water of 

 pools, etc. (1363, 1893) belongs to the above variety, but alsd the shorter 

 and stouter Carex, which grew commonly in swamps, along brooks, 

 and also in drier soil, which plant I had originally identified with C. 

 hyperborea, Drej. It is the latter form, which Hart has called C. 

 rigida, as I have ascertained at Kew. It seems rather a probable con- 

 jecture, that the above-quoted statement of Greely must also be referred 

 to the same. 



The large water-form may perhaps be referable to f. sphagnophila, 

 Fries, at least it very much resembles some of the specimens distri- 

 buted by the author in the Herb. Norm., Fasc. 11, N. 78, and it also 

 agrees with the description in Andersson, Gyp. Scand., p. 47. Fries 

 himself has given no precise description of it but refers in Sum. veg. 

 Scand. only to the above number in the Herb. Norm. 



Flowered rather late in July, but fruited abundantly. 



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

 Rudder Bay (Feilden !). Hayes Sound region, rather common: "Fort 

 Juliane", Beitstad Fjord (489, 651), Skraling Island (1363, 1365), Twin 

 Glacier Valley (1892), Gape Viele (860, 1344, 1893), "Deserted Village" 

 (Hart), Lastraea Valley (1891), Fram Harbour (288), Bedford Pim Is- 



