70 H. G- SIMMONS. [SEC. ARGT. EXP. FRAM 



Drab a fladnizensis, WULF. 



D. fladnizensis, SIMMONS, Fl. Ellesm.; OSTENFELD, Plantes N. E. 

 Gronl. [D. fladnizensis, WETHERILL, List 1894; 7). Wahlenbergii, NAT- 

 HORST, N. W. Gronl.; D. rupestris, DURAND et HART, ex p.?]. 



Not one single earlier author has mentioned this species, although 

 it is very probable that some of the localities recorded for D. rupestris 

 may really belong to it. This, however cannot to be decided and conse- 

 quently I can give only a few in the southern part of our area. 



Occurrence. S. Ivsugigsok (NATHORST); Inglefield Gulf: North- 

 umberland Island (STEIN), Fan Glacier, Gape Acland, and Glacier Valley 

 at Cape Robertson (WETHERILL) ; Foulke Fjord, in several places (STEIN, 

 206, 218, 1484, 4181). 



Draba subcapitata, SIMM. 



As I did not myself find this species at Foulke Fjord, and as I 

 have seen no indisputable specimens of it from the area, I can not assert 

 that it is to be found there; but I think that some badly preserved 

 specimens which 1 have seen belong to it, and, further, some statements 

 in literature seem to indicate that it has been found by other collectors. 

 I should be inclined to refer to it the D. Wahlenbergii var. brachycarpa 

 of NATHORST, found at Ivsugigsok, but the specimen I have seen in the 

 Stockholm collection is not enough to justify any decided opinion. The 

 description of the varieties corymbosa and micropetala, which DURAND 

 (PI. Kan., p. 187) gives under D. alpina, of plants collected by KANE 

 at Bedevilled Reach and Rensselaer Harbour also seem to indicate that 

 hardly any other species can be meant. Most authors, however, have 

 treated their Drabae in such a manner, that it is impossible, without 

 having the material at my disposal for inspection, to form any opinion 

 about the plants that hide under the different names. There is especi- 

 ally the name D. corymbosa, which is used to cover the most diverse 

 things which the authors have not been able to classify. Several state- 

 ments I have necessarily been obliged to leave entirely out of consi- 

 deration. 



Draba nivalis. LILJEBL. 



D. nivalis, SIMMONS, Fl. Ellesrn. [D. nivalis, NATHORST, N. W. 

 Gronl.]. 



This species seems to be rather rare within the area as it is only 

 recorded bv one of the later authors: it mav of course, however. 



