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



Fl. Groenl., p. 111). Even DURAND, PI. Kan., discards the latter name 

 as well as S. glauca. S. Brownii, LUNDSTR. (and BEBB?), is only a var- 

 iety of S. arctica in fact the most common in these regions (S. arc- 

 ticcij R. BROWN). The more hairy lanata- and glauca-\ike forms belong 

 presumably to the var. groenlandica, ANDERSS., which is reported by 

 OSTENFELD, Flow. pi. Cape York. This seems to be far more rare here 

 than to the south. 



It may indeed seem rather rash to criticize the identifications of the 

 different collectors and authors without examining their specimens, but 

 still I think it is best to arrange all the statements under S. arctica, 

 the more so, as none of the authors, who possess a more thorough 

 knowledge of the arctic, and especially of the Greenland flora viz. 

 LANGE, NATHORST, and OSTENFELD have been able to discern any other 

 species in the North-West Greenland material which they have examined. 

 There are, however, two statements in Mr. HOLM'S list of the STEIN 

 plants, which have given me some trouble. He has identified one speci- 

 men from Etah with . groenlandica , (ANDERSS.) LUNDSTR., and another 

 from Northumberland Island with S. glauca. Now Mr. HOLM has had 

 good opportunities of studying the Salices in question, both in Green- 

 land and in Novaja Semlja, but I think that he has formed a different 

 opinion about them from that at which I have arrived, for he probably 

 uses the name "S. arctica' only for the original plant of PALLAS such 

 as he knows it from Novaja Semlja. He has, therefore, not used it at 

 all for any specimen in the STEIN collection. As he has not identified 

 any as the most common form, var. Brownii, I must even if I cannot 

 do so without hesitation conclude that his <S. groenlandica is what 

 I identify with var. Brownii and his S. glauca belongs to the most 

 glauca-like variety, viz. var. groenlandica. For my part, I have seen 

 no groenlandica at Etah, although I can assert that I have looked pretty 

 thoroughly over the neighbourhood of the old village during my two 

 excursions there. At Foulke Fjord S. arctica was equally common 

 a plant in different localities, as it was in Ellesmereland, and the state- 

 ments in literature seem to indicate that the same holds true all over 

 North-West Greenland. 



Occurrence. S. Bushnan Island (SUTHERLAND) ; Cape York (HART, 

 WETHERILL); between there and Cape Dudley Digges (KANE); Ivsu- 

 gigsok (NATHORST); 1 Wolstenholme Sound (!NGLEFIELD), Agpa (Saun- 



1 Probably, at least partly, var. groenlandica. 



