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



Some specimens indeed belong to the var. intermedia, NATH. I have 

 it in my Foulke Fjord colleclion, OSTENFELD reports it as having been 

 brought home by MYLIUS ERICHSEN, and it has also been seen and 

 collected before NATHORST (N. W. Gronl.) distinguished it from the typ- 

 ical form of the species. To this the reports about D. octopetala also 

 may in general be referred. It is, however, only a local form produced 

 by certain conditions. Besides I have also found the var. canescens, 

 SIMM., in Foulke Fjord (1883). 



D. integrifolia equally as in Ellesrnereland seems also to be a 

 very common and widely distributed plant in the adjacent parts of 

 Greenland where it reaches even to the most northern part of the 

 country. Still I think it is best to give a list of the places where it is 

 noted from. 



Occurrence. S. Cape York (HART, WETHERILL); Ivsugigsok (NAT- 

 HORST); Umanak and Agpa (Saunders Island) in Wolstenholme Sound 

 (BALLE); Gran ville Bay (Iterdlagssuak) (MYLIUS ERICHSEN); Inglefield Gulf: 

 Northumberland Island (STEIN); Netlik (HAYES), Fan Glacier and Cape 

 Acland (WETHERILL), Verhoef Nunatak (MEEHAN), Robertsons Bay (WETH- 

 ERILL); Foulke Fjord (HART, STEIN, 199, 1497, 1521, 1883); Bedevilled 

 Reach, Rensselaer Bay and Mary Mintu.ni River (KANE). N. Bessels Bay 

 and Hannah Island (HART); Polaris Bay (HART); Lockwood Island 

 ( LOCK WOOD). 



Alchemillci vulgaris, L. 



Not having seen any specimens I can, of course, form no opinion 

 about the plant, that DURAND, Enum. pi. Smith S., records under this 

 name from Netlik. No Alchemilla is found north of Melville Bay by 

 any other collector, which makes it also doubtful if the plant in question 

 really was found there and not in Danish Greenland. Consequently the 

 safest way is to leave it out of consideration until more reliable inform- 

 ation about it can be produced. 



Potentilla pulchella, R. BR. 



P. pulchella, SIMMONS, Fl. Ellesm. 



As is already in some measure shown in my Fl. Ellesm., there is 

 much difficulty about using the statements of the older authors about 

 the arctic Potentillae. As for P. pulchella, this name is to be found 

 in the lists of different authors, but it is rather difficult to form any 

 opinion about the plants that they have had in view. As none of them 

 has been able to discern P. rubricaulis, LEHM., it is always possible or 



