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



p. 131). The species does, however, grow there, as is shown by the 

 specimens brought home by NATHORST and others, and therefore I deem 

 it best to enumerate the localities from whence it is reported, even though 

 I must take exception against eventual mistakes. 



Occurrence. S. Ivsugigsok (NATHORST); between Gape York and 

 Cape Dudley Digges (KANE); Inglefield Gulf: Northumberland Island 

 (STEIN); Foulke Fjord: Port Foulke (HAYES). 



Distribution: East and West Greenland, Arctic American Archi- 

 pelago, Arctic America, Labrador, Canada, down to the mountains of 

 Maine and New Hampshire. (Western America?), (Arctic Siberia?), 1 

 Altai and other mountains, Arctic Russia, Northern Scandinavia, the 

 Alps and other European mountains, mountains of Great Britain. 

 Faeroes, Iceland, Jan Mayen. 



Litiaceae. 

 Tofieldia palustris, HDDS. 



T. pahistris, HUDSON. Fl. Angl., Ed. II, 1778; KRUUSE, List E. 

 Greenl.; DURAND. Enum. pi. Smith S.: WETHERILL. List 1894; HOOKER, 

 Fl. Bor. Amer. ; BRITTON & BROWN, 111. FL; LEDEBOUR, Fl. Ross.; AN- 

 DERSSON & HESSELMAN, Spetsb. karlv. ; T. borealis, WAHLENBERG, Fl. 

 Lapp.; LANGE, Consp. Fl. Groenl. ; KRUUSE, List Angmags.; HARTMAN, 

 Skand. Fl.; GRONLUND, Isl. Fl.; Anthericum calyculatum, LINNAEUS, Sp. 

 Plant., ex p., et A. calyc. ft, Fl. Suec., Ed. II. 



Fig. LINNAEUS, Fl. Lapp., T. 10, fig. 3; Sv. Bot., T. 482, fig. 1; 

 Fl. Dan.. T. 36. 



DURAND, 1. c., p. 95, reports this plant for Port Foulke, but it is 

 omitted in HAYES'S own list (Op. Pol. Sea) of his collection; NATHORST 

 consequently had a good reason for excluding it from his list in N. W. 

 Gronl., where he says, however, that it might presumably be thought 

 that it grew there. As it is found later in Inglefield Gulf, it belongs 

 at all events to the flora of our area, and there is hardly any reason 

 for excluding the locality of DURAND, if the statements always doubt- 

 ful from the first american expeditions are to be used at all. More- 

 over. T. palustris is not only a common plant in Danish West Green- 

 land, but is also spread far northwards on the eastern coast. 



1 Some of the older records are doubtful and ought probably to be transferred 

 to S. polaris, WAHLENB. 



