The Flora of Disko Island and Adjacent Coast of West Greenland. 111 
In West Greenland known from Cape Farewell to 70°30’, but being 
found at 77° on the east coast, this place can hardly be the northern 
limit. 
Usually abundantly flowering, but not all the fruits ripen; where 
the pond is frozen up with early night-frost all the shoots, protruding 
above the ice, are killed. 
Does not vary much. The form var. maritima (HELLENIUS) HartM., 
supposed to be identical with tetraphylla 1. fil., is recorded the most 
common in Greenland. Typical forms of var. letraphylla with few short 
and broad leaves are, however, rather scarce. Well developed specimens 
collected towards the termination of the summer seems to me not much 
deviating from the European form. 
The same is said by OstENFELD of specimens from East Greenland 
(Medd. om Granld. 43) and by AGNETE SEIDELIN of the great majority 
of the investigated arctic specimens (ibd. 36, p. 302). The latter author 
refers it to f. litoralis Lindb. fil. 
Cornus suecica Ml. 
Recorded from Egedesminde © as collected with ripe fruits Sept. 
28. 1893 by P. H. SoreNsEN; on the label is noted that the plant also 
occurs at Godhavn. In both places | have searched for it during many 
years, but in vain; and it is very difficult for me to believe that such 
a conspicuous rare plant, whose fruit, moreover, is a berry, might really 
be overlooked in this place where | have lived and collected for (3 years. 
In West Greenland it is only known from 60°—62° and 64°- 65°47’. 
Neither is it met with in the southmost part on the outer islets (Ros.). 
XXXI. Umbelliferae. 
A 221. Archangelica officinalis Horr. 
On luxuriant grassy slopes where the cover of snow is constantly 
recurring, but early disappearing and, where during the period of vege- 
tation, there is an abundant supply of pure running water; on Disko 
only near the hot springs and their outlets. The most prominent repre- 
sentative of the southern types and always found together with se- 
veral others. 
Archangelica is the largest and most conspicuous herb in Green- 
land and would, if only for this reason, easily be recognized by anybody. 
But as it, moreover, is much coveted by the natives who eat its young 
stems and leaf-stalks raw, often untertaking long journeys and trouble- 
some excursions to gather it, the determination of its area of distribution 
