The Plant-Life of Hare Island off the coast of West Greenland. 271 
The remaining 80 species are widely spread over the west coast 
of Greenland north and south of the 70 parallel, but they exhibit 
some interesting differences: 
N 15 species have a southern limit somewhere north of Fre- 
derikshaab Glacier (62° 30'). 
S 16 have a northern limit somewhere south of Melville Bay 
and are wanting in NW. Greenland or Ellesmereland. 
С 50 occur from Cape Farewell (at 60°) to at least NW. Greenland 
north of the 76!" parallel. 
N. With southern limit in 
West Greenland north of 
62° 30". 
Calamagrostis arundinacea, var. 
purpurascens 
Carex ursina 
— rupestris 
Luzula nivalis 
Alsine verna 
Melandrium affine 
— triflorum 
Draba arctica 
— Fladnizensis 
Saxifraga stellaris var. comosa 
— . tricuspidata 
Potentilla nivea 
Cassiope tetragona 
Pedicularis hirsuta 
Arnica alpina | 
15 
5. With northern limit in 
West Greenland south of 
Melville Bay. 
Carex lagopina 
— rariflora 
Tofieldia palustris ' 
Salix herbacea 5 
— glauca 
Koenigia islandica 
Sagina caespitosa 
Alsine biflora 
Ranunculus lapponicus 
Arabis арта 
Draba crassifolia? 
Rhododendron lapponicum' 
Mertensia maritima’, ? 
Pedicularis lapponica 
— flammea ' 
Тагахасит сгосеит 
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С. Plants occurring оп the whole coast of West Greenland from 
Cape Farewell to north of Melville Bay. 
Equisetum arvense 
— variegatum 
Hierochloé alpina 
Trisetum spicatum 
Phippsia algida 
Poa pratensis 
— cenisia 
— glauca 
Glyceria maritima var. reptans 
— distans 
Festuca ovina 
Eriophorum Scheuchzeri 
— polystachyum 
Carex nardina 
—  incurva 
—  glareosa 
1 Stated north of 76° by WETHERILL (Bull. of the Geogr. Club of Philadelphia I. 
р. 214 ff.) but not found by NATHORST ог SIMMONS. 
* Seems at present to have a southward limit also. 
