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very imperfect, or GRAY may not have had any opportunity of verifying 

 all the identifications. Moreover there is the statement of MEEHAN quoted 

 above under C. misandra, that specimens of C. atrata were brought 

 home by BESSELS. As the collector himself has only one species of 

 Carex in his list, it is hardly possible to reconcile two such different 

 statements, and hardly possible that even MEEHAN could have made such 

 a mistake. 



The safest way, I think, will be to leave the plant in question out 

 of the list, until better evidence is forthcoming. Under such circum- 

 stances it may seem unprofitable to speculate further upon the real na- 

 ture of the plant in question; but if it really does belong to the form- 

 series of C. dioica, it is evidently not the main form, but either C. gy- 

 nocrates,WoRMSKJ., which is found in Danish Greenland up to lat. 69 16', 

 or C. dioica var. parallela, LAEST. (which should be regarded as a 

 separate species), which is found in Scoresby Sound on the east coast. 

 OSTENFELD, Fl. Arct., p. 61, has referred it to the former. 



Elyna Bellardi, (ALL.) KOCH. 



E. Bellardi, SIMMONS, Fl. Ellesm. [Kobresia scirpina, MEEHAN, 

 Contr. Greenl.]. 



The great, habitual similarity of this plant to Carex nardina, in 

 whose company it grows on dry rock-ledges, in gravelly plains, etc., 

 probably accounts for its absence from all lists of N.. W. Greenland 

 plants except that of MEEHAN. 



Occurrence. S. Inglefield Gulf: M'Cormick Bay (MEEHAN); Foulke 

 Fjord: Reindeer Point (231, 1489). 



Eriophorum Scheuchzeri, HOPPE. 



E. Scheuchzeri, SIMMONS, Fl. Ellesm. [E. Scheuchzeri, NATHORST, 

 N. W. Gronl.; WETHERILL, List 1894; E. capitatum, DURAND, PI. Kan.; 

 HART, Bot. Br. Pol. Exp. ; E. vaginatum, BESSELS, Exp. Pol. Amer. et 

 Amer. Nordpol-Exp. ; HART, 1. c.]. 



As appears from the special synonymic here given, the plant in 

 question figures not only under the two names of E. Scheuchzeri and 

 E. capitatum, which are in fact synonymous, but also under the false 

 name of E. vaginatum. I have previously explained (1. c., p. 149 150) the 

 probable cause for this mistake. Indeed HART (1. c., p. 39) has both in 

 his list, but I have sought in vain for specimens of E. vaginatum in the 



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