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



Ericaceae. 

 Myrtillus uliginosa, (L.) DREJ. var. microphylla, (LANGE) SIMM. 



M.ulig. var. microphylla, SIMMONS, Fl. Ellesm. [Vaccinium uligi- 

 nosum, DURAND, PI. Kan. et Enum. pi. Smith S. ; HART, Bot. Br. Pol. 

 Exp. ; V. ulig. var. microphyllum, NATHORST, N. W. Gronl.; V. ulig. 

 v. mucronatum, WETHERILL, List 1894]. 



This plant seems to be rather common within the area, as it is 

 present in most collections. FERNALD (in WETHERILL, 1. c.) uses the 

 name "var. mucronatum, HERDER" for it. I have not been able to find 

 out where that variety is established or how it is characterized; but 

 probably the name cannot apply to our plant. Moreover V. mucrona- 

 turn of LINNAEUS, Sp. Plant., is shown to be a plant belonging to the 

 Aquifoliaceae, Nemopanthes fascicularis, RAFIN. 



Here, as in Ellesmereland, the size of the leaves is very variable, 

 and as WETHERILL mentions, specimens may be found that have quite 

 as large leaves as those of the type. 



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

 Gape Dudley Digges (KANE); Inglefield Gulf: Netlik (HAYES), Gape Ac- 

 land and Fan Glacier (WETHERILL); Foulke Fjord (HART), especially in 

 the grassy slopes above Etah (245). 



Vaccinium Vitis idaea, L. 



V. Vitis idaea, LINNAEUS, Sp. Plant., 1753; LANGE, Consp. Fl. Groenl.; 

 SUTHERLAND, Voyage; NATHORST, N. W. Gronl.; HOOKER, Fl. Bor. Amer.; 

 BRITTON & BROWN, 111. Fl. ; KJELLMAN, in Vegaexp.; FEILDEN, Fl. PI. Nov. 

 Zeml.; LEDEBOUR, Fl. Ross.; GRONLUND, Isl. Fl. 



Fig. Fl. Dan., T. 40; Sv. Bot., T. 116. 



I have entered this species in the list on the authority of SUTHER- 

 LAND, who has it in his list, notwithstanding that I have seen no speci- 

 men in the London collections. It is, however, not improbable that it 

 occurs at the northern coast of Melville Bay, as it is found up to the 

 northernmost parts of Danish Greenland. 



Occurrence. S. Bushnan Island (SUTHERLAND). 



Distribution. West Greenland, Arctic America, Labrador, down 

 to the Northern United States, British Columbia, Alaska, islands of the 

 Bering Sea, Northern and Middle Asia, Europe, Novaja Semlja, Great 

 Britain, Iceland. 



