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cata grows has perhaps confounded some of them. At all events, I 

 dare not, without other evidence than this single specimen, give the 

 species a place in the list of the North-Western Greenland flora. 



Cyperaceae. 

 Carex misandra, R. BR. 



C. misandra, SIMMONS, Fl. Ellesm. [C. misandra, NATHORST, N. 

 W. Gronl.; WETHERILL, List 1894; C. atrata, MEEHAN, Contr. Greenl., 

 ex HOLM, Contr. Fl. Greenl.]. 



Curiously enough, this species has probably not been found within 

 our area before NATHORST'S visit to Ivsugigsok; it has been overlooked 

 even in Foulke Fjord by HAYES and HART. It is, however, very com- 

 mon and abundant there, and in a great measure forms the sward of 

 many sloopes and rockledges, or appears in large, dense tufts on the 

 plains of gravel or clay. 



It is not reported from the regions north of the Humboldt Glacier 

 by those collectors who have brought home plants from there, but as, 

 according to HART, Bot. Br. Pol. Exp., p. 38, it is very abundant on the 

 western side of the Channels, even as far north as at Lady Franklin 

 Bay and in the interior of Grinnell Land, and likewise in N. E. Green- 

 land (KRUUSE, List E. Greenl., p. 194), it can hardly be absent from the 

 upper part of N. W. Greenland. There also exists a statement which 

 points to its appearance there. MEEHAN, Contr. Greenl., p. 214, speaks 

 of specimens of "Carex atrata, BOOTT" in the herbarium of the Aca- 

 demy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, collected by Dr. BESSELS at 

 lat. 81 82. Now MEEHAN, as usual, has arrived at a wrong determi- 

 nation of his own specimens, which belong, according to HOLM, Contr. 

 Fl. Greenl., p. 544, to C. misandra, and thus it seems probable that 

 BESSELS' plant is the same. But there is yet another difficulty. BESSELS, 

 in his list (Exp. Pol. Amer., p. 297, and Amer. Nordpol-Exp., p. 304) 

 has no other Carex but C. dioica. Now a confusion of two species so 

 widely different seems quite out of the question, yet how is the state- 

 ment of MEEHAN then to be understood? OSTENFELD, Fl. Arct., p. 90, 

 gives the West Greenland range of C. misandra as lat. 67 82, but 

 quotes only WETHERILL for the distribution in N. W. Greenland. I think 

 the occurrence there must, for the present, be left as doubtful. 



Occurrence. S. Ivsugigsok (NATHORST); Inglefield Gulf: M'Cor- 

 mick Bay (MEEHAN), Cape Acland (WETHERILL); Foulke Fjord at Rein- 

 deer Point and Etah (STEIN, 229, 1516, 1535). (N. Hall Land (BESSELS)?). 



