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2) var. grandis Leum. North-east Asia, North America, especially 
the western part, but also New Foundland and (? Greenland. 
3) var. groenlandica Ser. Arctic- and subarctic Europe, Asia 
especially the North-East, America, Greenland. 
4) var. Egedii Wormsks. With the same distribution as the pre- 
ceding, but in Greenland farther northwards. 
Having no access, however, to Wotr’s work here, but only to 
extracts from it, and as LANGr and later authors give another classifi- 
cation, | am only able to sketch incompletely the distribution of the 
forms in our area. 
1) Var. vulgaris has never been seen by us nor reported from our area. 
2) Var. grandis has been reported twice: from Sanerut in N. Strom- 
fjord 67°40’ (Korn.) and from an islet in Sydost Bugt, 68°35’ 
(Htz.) By Ropinson & Fernacp (Gray’s Manual 7th edition 
this form is merely considered a luxuriant state (of var. vul- 
garis?) in rich meadows. We have several times found large, 
luxuriant forms in rich manured soil, for instance, on an 
islet near Akunaq, 68°35’, Isuamiut, 68°42’ and Ugssuit at the 
head of N. Stromfjord, 67°50’, but we do not doubt that they 
were only overmanured specimens of var. Egedii growing close by. 
A 3) OF var. groenlandica Ser. | have seen vigorous specimens, col- 
lected by Osrenretp at Eqaluit, Ameralik-fjord, 64°10’. They 
were determined by KoLtpEeRup RoseNVINGE to the main- 
species, but the felt is dull and not covered by silky hairs. 
Similar specimens | possess from the island Ssolowetsk in the 
White Sea, collected by Ponte!); and in our area we collee- 
ted them at Itivneq near Holsteinsborg, 66°58’. 
A 4) Var. Egedii Wormsks. is declared by Ropinson & FERNALD, 
(I. e.) to be a dwarf state, common on exposed rocks, whereas P. A. 
RypperG, the American monographer of the genus, keeps it 
as a distinct species (Argentina Egedit (Wormskj.) Rydb. It is 
the form best known to us. 
Var. Egedii (WormskJ.) occurs only near the shore, as well on sandy 
or clayey as on rocky ground with scanty covering of earth, but, as a 
rule, only as high up the cliffs as they are periodically wetted by the 
surf, 
Disko: Numerous localities are known, especially on the southern, western 
and northern coasts and in the fjords (P.). 
Hare © (P.). 
Mainland: from Marraq at the outflow of the big river on Nigssuaq peninsula, 
70°30’ southwards, occurring in numerous localities, but nowhere common. 
1) from the same place and by the same collector I have specimens of var. 
vulgaris with silky hairs over the felt. 
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