60 C. H. OSTENFELD. M.-N. KI. 
Arctostaphylos Apams. 
86. Arctostaphylos alpina (L.) SPRENG., Syst., II, 1825, p. 287. 
King Point. In full bloom on June 16th, 1906; with full-grown 
leaves on June 2oth—2gth, 1906, and with old fruits from the foregoing 
year. Specimens from September 3rd, 1905, show that the leaves also at 
King Point become purple-red in the autumn. 
Vacciniaceae. 
Vaccinium L. 
87. Vaccinium uliginosum L., f. microphylla Lance, Consp. Fl. Groenl., 
1880, p. 91 (pro subspecie). 
PuLLen’s list, Arctic Coast. 
King Point. Only sterile fragments collected (June 1906, GoDFRED 
HANSEN). 
88. Vaccinium vitis-idea L., Sp. pl., 1753, p.351; Vitis-idæa vitis-idea 
(L.) Britton, in Bull. New York Botan. Garden, vol. 2, No. 6, 1901, p. 179. 
King Point. Specimens with young flower-buds were collected 
on June 16th, 1906. 
Primulaceae. 
Peimala I 
89. Primula borealis Dusy, Mém. Soc. phys. et d'hist. nat, Genève, 
X, 1843, tab. 2, fig. 2; DE CANDOzELE, Prodromus, VII, 1844, po 23 
Pax, Primulaceæ, in Das Pflanzenreich, 1905, p. 80; P. mistassinica CHAM. 
& SCHLECHTEND., Linnæa I, 1826, p. 213 (non Micux. 1803). 
Herschell Isl. In full bloom in the middle of July 1906 (13th). 
The specimens collected are tall and large (8—-15 ctm.) and belong 
partly to var. Loczi (KANITZ) Pax:(l. c. p. 81), which has even transitions 
to the main form. 
Douglasia Livi. 
90. Douglasia arctica Hooxer, Fl. Bor. Am., II, p. 120, 1838; Pax 
u. KNUTH, Primulaceæ, in Das Pflanzenreich, 1905, p. 169. 
King Point. Flowering in the later half of June (16th—21th, 1906). 
The Expedition has brought home a rather rich material of this rare 
species, which was described on specimens collected between Mackenzie 
