The Flora of Disko Island and Adjacent Coast of West Greenland. 49 
Ole Cobresia lipartita (ALL.) Datta Torre (C. caricina WILLD. ). 
On warm rock-ledges, sunny and rather dry heath and from the 
outskirt of thickets. 
Disko: Lyngmarken at Godhayn 69°15’ (Th. Fr.). 
Mainland: Here and there, but the rather numerous localities form together 
a continuous area of distribution; from the fjords inland from Holsteinborg follow- 
ing the interior part of the gneiss-land to Nuigssuaq peninsula and here only in 
the gneissic part northwards to the interior of the Nordost-Bugt. 
The northmost locality is on Ubekendt Ejland 71°12’ (P.). 
South of this domain known quite isolated at 64°45’. Otherwise 
not found till the southern coast of Ellesmere Land and on the east 
coast of Greenland at 71° and 73°20’. 
Seems thus to be a northern type. 
Abundantly flowering and fruiting. 
Undoubtedly snowless now and then. 
| 68. Carex nardina Fr. 
In barren, sandy and gravelly places; on open heath and often 
characterizing this vegetation, but rare in stony soil. 
Very common in the basalt and sandstone areas from the coast 
to the snow-line; scarcer in the gneiss-land and often absent in vigo- 
rous, dense vegetation of the lowland, but to be found on the hills or 
in barren places. This is especially the case in the great fjords, but 
occasionally also to be found here in the lowland for instance, on gravelly 
river-banks or on the slopes of marine layers of clay, where they have 
been cut through by streams. 
Has neither southern nor northern limit in Greenland, but is scarce 
in South Greenland, and here it is to be reckoned as an Alpine species, 
only occasionally and by chance descending into the lowland. 
Abundantly flowering and fruiting. 
No doubt often snowless during winter. The living part of the 
plant, however, is very well guarded by the compact, involuted 
remains of the leaf-sheaths. 
A 69. Carex capitata SOL. 
In sandy soil, open spots on the heath, rock-ledges and clefts. 
Disko: Only seen a few times in the gneiss-domain of the south coast (P.). 
Mainland: Paottit 70°12’ (Htz.); from Torssukatak southwards there is a 
great many localities as well in the inland as, for instance, in the archipelago of Ege- 
desminde. Nevertheless we did not see it in N. Stromfjord nor in the fjords inland 
from Holsteinsborg, though observed here several times by other collectors. 
A southern type, north of the area only known from two loca- 
lities in the interior part of the Nordost-Bugt. 
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