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The scurvy grass was rather common in Foulke Fjord and somewhat 

 variable in size and manner of growth, according to the different kinds 

 of localities where it was found, as was also the case in Ellesmereland ; 

 but all specimens were referable to the above-mentioned variety. As the 

 case has been the same with all specimens that I have seen from North- 

 ern Greenland and the northern islands of the American Archipelago, 

 I do not hesitate to refer to it all records of CocMearia from our area, 

 even when the author has used another specific or variety name. 



Occurrence. Gape York ( WETERILL) ; Ivsugigsok (NATHORST) ; 

 between Cape Atholl and Cape Dudley Digges (KANE); Wolstenholme Sound 

 (INGLEFIELD) ; Inglefield Gulf: Northumberland Island (HAYES, Arct. boat 

 journ., p. 93, STEIN); Burdin Bay (INGLEFIELD); Sutherland Island at Cape 

 Alexander (KANE); Foulke Fjord: Reindeer Point and Etah (HART, STEIN, 

 217, 249); Pikira (Littleton Island), Rensselaer Harbour, Mary Minturn 

 River (KANE). N. Polaris Bay (COPPINGER). 



Papaveraceae. 

 Papaver radicatum, ROTTB. 



P. radicatum, SIMMONS, Fl. Ellesm. ; OSTENFELD, Plantes N. E. Gronl. 

 \P. radicatum, OSTENFELD, Fl. pi. Cape York; P. nudicaule, SUTHER- 

 LAND, Voyage; DICKIE, Not. fl. pi. in INGLEFIELD, Summer Search; DUR- 

 AND, PI. Kan. et Enum. pi. Smith S.; HART, Bot. Br. Pol. Exp.; NAT- 

 HORST, N. W. Gronl.; BESSELS, Exp. Pol. Amer. et Amer. Nordpol-Exp.; 

 MEEHAN, Contr. Greenl. ; WETHERILL, List 1894 ; GREELY, Rep. ; P. alpi- 

 Hiint, HART 1. c.]. 



At Foulke Fjord the poppy was extremely abundant, especially around 

 the old settlements and in the rookeries. In such places it would form 

 large tufts having twenty, thirty, or more flowering or fruiting stems. 

 In other situations the plants would be smaller, but I did not there see 

 any that might by right be referred to the var. Hartianum, SIMM. Prob- 

 ably, however, this is the variety of which MEEHAN speaks as being 

 found on Wolstenholme Island and at M'Cormick Bay. Perhaps also 

 the white-flowered form from the tableland at Ivsugigsok, which NAT- 

 HORST mentions, may belong to this variety. The colour of the petals 

 varied in the usual manner, the sulphureous being the most common, 

 but saffron and almost pure whithe flowers were also to be found. Forms 

 with more or less lacerated petals were also met with. 



