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



Braya purpurascens, (B. BR.) BUNGE. 



B. purpurascem, SIMMONS, Fl. Ellesni. \B. alpina, HART, Bot. Br. 

 Pol. Exp. ; B. glabella, MEEHAN, Contr. Greenl.]. 



As already shown by GELERT (Not. Arct. PI.) the Braya of N. W. 

 Greenland is not J5. alpina, STERNB. & HOPPE, as little as is the Grinnell 

 Land plant, which HART (Bot. Br. Pol. Exp.) also has ranged under the 

 same name. I have myself seen the specimens upon which HART based 

 his determination, in the London collections. For my part I did not find 

 it, nor has any other collector seen it in Foulke Fjord. 



Occurrence. S. Inglefield Gulf, M'Gormick Bay (MEEHAN). N. 

 Polaris Bay (COPPINGER). 



Arab is Hooker i, LANGE. 



A. Hookeri, LANGE, Consp. Fl. Groenl., 1880; SIMMONS, Prel. Rep. 

 et Bot. Arb.; Turritis mollis, HOOKER, Fl. Bor. Amer. 1840; non Ara- 

 bis mollis, STEVEN. 



Fig. Fl. Dan. T. 2296. 



Curiously enough, this plant, although occurring in abundance on 

 the rich clay plain at the old Eskimo settlement Etah, has not been 

 found, or at least is not mentioned, by any previous collector in these 

 regions. Neither do specimens from our area exist in the collections; 

 but still there might be a possibility that HART brought home frag- 

 ments of it, which LANGE may have seen, for the latter -author states 

 (1. c., p. 48) that HART has found A. alpina, L., at Foulke Fjord. HART 

 himself, however, mentions A. alpina only from the well-known local- 

 ities at Disco, and Turritis mollis only from Proven (Bot. Br. Pol. Exp., 

 p. 24). At all events A. Hookeri is an addition to the flora of N. W. 

 Greenland. 



The species, however, does not appear here in its typical form, with 

 only one or a few (23) erect stems from the rosule. As the Foulke 

 Fjord plant differs also in some other respects, I think it best to describe 

 it as a new variety: 



var. multicaulis, n. var. 



Perennis, multiceps, ramis floriferis nurnerosis (saepe 10 vel plur- 

 ibus) decumbentibus, brevibus (10 cm.). Folia numerosa, dense rosulato- 

 congesta, pro maxima parte per fructificationem persistentia. Racemi 

 densi, pedicelli patuli, 0.5 cm. longi. Siliquae quam in forma typica 

 majores, 24 cm. longae, leviter curvatae. Semina flavo-brunnescentia. 



