54 H. G. SIMMONS. [SEC. ARCT. EXP. FRAM 



for he mentions this plant from places where it certainly does not grow. 

 This view is confirmed by the absence of specimens from the NARES 

 expedition in the London collections. The statement about its occurrence 

 in Foulke Fjord must be left out of consideration. 



Bartsia alpina, L. 



B. alpina, LINNAEUS, Sp. Plant., 1753; LANGE, Gonsp. Fl. Groenl. ; 

 KRUUSE, List E. Greenl.; WETHERILL, List 1894; HOOKER, Fl. Bor. Amer.; 

 BRITTON & BROWN, III. Fl.; LEDEBOUR, Fl. Ross.; HARTMAN, Skand. Fl.; 

 GRONLUND, Isl. Fl. 



Fig. Sv. Bot, T. 573; Fl. Dan., T. 43. 



There exists an old statement that this plant is found in North- 

 Western Greenland, but it is one of the doubtful ones from "Tessiussak, 

 Sept. 4" in DURAND, Enum. pi. Smith S., and, as previously explained, 

 cannot be taken into consideration. NATHORST, N. W. Gronl., therefore 

 rightly excludes it, but it has since been found by WETHERILL and 

 consequently belongs notwithstanding to the flora of this region. 



Occurrence. S. Gape York (WETHERILL). 



Distribution. East and West Greenland, Labrador, Arctic Russia, 

 Scandinavia, the Alps and Pyrenees, Great Britain, Faeroes, Iceland. 



Borraginaceae. 

 Mertensia maritima, (L.) S. F. GRAY. 



Pidmonaria maritima, LINNAEUS, Sp. Plant., 1753; Steenhammera 

 maritima, REICHENBACII, Fl. Germ. exc. ; Mertensia maritima, GRAY, 

 Nat. AIT. Br. PI.; WETHERILL, List 1894; LEDEBOUR, Fl. Ross.; Sten- 

 hammaria maritima, LANGE, Gonsp. Fl. Groenl.; KJELLMAN, in Vega- 

 ex j). ; HARTMAN, Skand. Fl.; GRONLUND, Isl. FL; Lithospermum mart- 

 timum, HOOKER, Fl. Bor. Amer.; Pneumaria maritima, BRITTON & 

 BROWN, III. Fl. 



Fig. Fl. Dan., T. 25. 



I have not seen this species which is not found elsewhere further 

 northward than about 72, but I enter it on the authority of WETHERILL. 



Occurrence. S. Cape York (WETHERILL). 



Distribution. West Greenland, Arctic America, Labrador, down to 

 Newfoundland and Massachusetts, from Oregon to Alaska, islands of the 

 Bering Sea, Land of the Ghukches, down to Kamshatka and the Amur 

 Territory, Arctic Russia, Scandinavia, Denmark, Great Britain, Faeroes, 

 Iceland. 



