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also in the flowers of another dwarf-form of Luzula arcuata collected 

 in Torne Lappmark by HAGERSTROM. Var. Kjellmani thus is shown 

 to be merely a pathological deformation and the name must be with- 

 drawn. Moreover, the plant in question belongs not to L. spicata but 

 to L. arcuata. The former species must, consequently, be excluded from 

 the flora of the area. 



Occurrence. S. Bushnan Island (SUTHERLAND); Ivsugigsok (NAT- 

 HORST); Wolstenholme Sound (!NGLEFIELD); Inglefield Gulf: BurdinBay: 

 (LNGLEFIELD), Northumberland Island (STEIN); Glacier Valley at Robertson 

 Bay, Fan Glacier (WETHERILL); Foulke Fjord (HART), at Etah (STEIN) and 

 other places (237, 1481, 4254); Fog Inlet (KANE). N. Polaris Bay (HART) 



Luzula nivah's, (LAEST.) BEURL. 



L. nivalis, SIMMONS, Fl. Ellesm.; OSTENFELD, Plantes N. E. Gronl. 



As in Ellesmereland, this species seems to be a rather rare and 

 sporadic one in North-Western Greenland from whence it is only men- 

 tioned by DURAND, PI. Kan. It may, however, have been found in Foulke 

 Fjord by HART, even though I have seen no specimens to prove it, and 

 NATHORST, as previously mentioned, has also brought it home. 



Occu rrence. S. Ivsugigsok (NATHORST); Foulke Fjord (1514, 1895); 

 Bedevilled Reach (KANE). 



Luzula spicata, (L.} DC. 



As mentioned above, the plant of NATHORST referred to this spe- 

 cies, really belongs to L. arcuata, but still I cannot unreservedly deny 

 the possibility that L. spicata may grow in our area. In the Kew her- 

 barium I saw a specimen, collected at Whale Sound, Aug. 25, 1852, 

 which I have noted as collected by TAYLOR * and belonging to L. spi- 

 cata. It was called L. campestris congesta, but I have noted that the 

 long, pointed sepals and the hairiness at the mouth of the leaf-sheaths, 

 place it under spicata. Not having the specimen at hand for another 

 examination, I am now very doubtful about it. It might be the same 

 deformed L. arcuata as the plant of NATHORST, the real nature of which 

 I first found out in 1906, two years after my visit to London; or it may 

 also be supposed, that TAYLOR, whose collections were made in different 

 places among them Danish Greenland and Baffin Land where L. spi- 



1 I know nothing, however, about TAYLOR having visited these regions, as no plants 

 from there are included in his Fl. pi. Baffin B. 



