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their above-quoted works. They seem, however, to be so Httle constant 

 and so connected by intermediate forms, that it is of rather little inter- 

 est to distinguish them. It grew principally in clefts of rock and was 

 not rare in the archaean districts. 



Occurrence. Grinnell Land: Cape Murchison, Discovery Harbour, 

 Bellot Island (Hart, Greely). Hayes Sound region : mouth of Flagler 

 Fjord, Lastraea Valley (839), north side of Fram Harbour (1100), also 

 recorded by Hart for Hayes Sound and Cape Sabine (Bedford Pim Is- 

 land), and by Th. Holm from the Weyprecht Islands (leg. Stein). South 

 coast: Fram Fjord (1613); Harbour Fjord, Big Valley, Seagull Rock 

 (2591), Spade Point, Lake Valley, "green patch" (2553), Western sound 

 (2442), Sir Inglis Peak; on limestone it was found only at Falcon Cliff 

 (2878) in the Goose Fjord, where it grew abundantly. 



Distribution: East and West Greenland, Arctic American Archi- 

 pelago, Arctic America, and in the mountains down to South America, 

 Unalaschka, Pribilof Islands, Kurile islands, in Asia down to the Hima- 

 layas, Caucasus and Asia Minor, Cyprus, all over Europe, Novaja 

 Semlja, Spitsbergen, Jan Mayen, Iceland, Faeroes, Algiers, Cape Verde 

 Islands, Sandwich Islands, Van Diemens Land, New Zealand, Kerguelen 

 islands. 



Woodsia ilvensis, (L.) R. Br. 

 var. a,lpina, (Bolt.), Aschers. & Graebn. 



Acrostichum alpinum, Bolton, FiL biit., 1785; A.hifperboreum,hiL.mm.AD, Acrostich.; 



Woodsia Jiyperborea, R. Brown, Woodsia; Lange, Consp. Fl. Groenl.; Hart, 



Bot. Br. Pol. Exp.; Hooker, Fl. Bor.Amer.; Ledebour, Fl. Ross.; W. hyp. 



A arvonica, Milde, Fit. Europ. ; Luerssen, Farnpfl. ; W. alpina, S. F. Gray, 



Nat. Arr. Br. pi.; Britton & Brown, 111. Fl. ; W. ilvensis /3 alpina, Ascher- 



soN & Graebner, Syn. Mitteleur. Fl. ; Gelert, in Ostenfeld, Fl. Arct.; Kruuse, 



List E. Greenl. 



Fig. Fl. Dan., T. 292. 



I do not think that this plant can be held apart from W. ilvensis 

 as a separate species, and even to W. glabella its likeness is so great, 

 that I overlooked it in collecting the latter, and found it first among the 

 collected specimens when examining them after our return. 



It grew in rock-clefts together with Cystopteris. 



Occurrence. Hayes Sound: first mentioned by Hart from "Ed- 

 wards Grief"; collected by myself at Cape Viele (4264). It may have 

 been overlooked in other places in the same region, but hardly on the 

 south coast. 



Distribution (var. alpina): East and West Greenland, Arctic 

 American Archipelago, Arctic America, Labrador, down to New York, 



