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northwards to Labrador. Further, it is found in a number of places in 

 Greenland, on the east coast only at Ikerasarsuk in the far south, and 

 on the west coast principally in the southern districts as far as to about 

 64V2 N. (Baals Revier, leg. VAHL). Further north it is recorded from 

 three stations, Sukkertoppen (about 65 1 2 , leg. KANE), Egedesminde (about 

 GSVs". leg. SORENSEN) and Upernivik (about 73, leg. KANE). 



The statements of DURAND about KANE'S plant are, as previously 

 pointed out by several authors, and as I myself have had an opport- 

 unity of showing, not to be trusted overmuch; and so we get, even 

 reckoning from Egedesminde, an extension of about 9 northward of the 

 area of the species. In the Arctic Archipelago A. groenlandica is not 

 found; HART'S statement of it for Northern Ellesmereland is a mistake, 

 as I have ascertained at Kew (SIMMONS, Fl. Ellesm., p. 117), and the 

 same is almost certainly the case with GREELY'S plant under the same 

 name (Rep. II, p. 13). 



It is rather difficult to form any opinion, as to what MEEHAN'S plant 

 really is, perhaps Alsine verna, (L.) WAHLENB., as this common species 

 is lacking in his list. 



Alsine verna, (L.) WAHLENB. 



A. verna, SIMMONS, Fl. Ellesm. ; [A. verna, OSTENFELD, Fl. pi. Cape 

 York; A. rubella, DURAND, Enum. pi. Smith S. ; NATHORST, N. W. 

 Gronl.; Arenaria verna, WETHERILL, List 1894; A. rubella, HART, Bot. 

 Br. Pol. Exp.]. 



This is doubtless a common species, even though not collected in 

 all the places visited by the different expeditions or by all collectors. 

 Generally my specimens represent the variety rubella (WAHLENB.), as is 

 the case also in Ellesmereland. The Arenaria arctica in the list of 

 HAYES (Op. Pol. Sea), doubtless belongs here, as DURAND has instead of 

 it the name A. rubella var. hirta, VAHL. 



Occurrence. S. Ivsugigsok (NATHORST); Wolstenholme Sound: 

 Umanak and Saunders Island (BALLE); Inglefield Gulf: Netlik (HAYES), 

 Fan Glacier (WETHERILL): Foulke Fjord (HART), at Reindeer Point (243, 

 1495). 



Cerastium alpinum, L. 



C. alpinum, SIMMONS, Fl. Ellesm.; OSTENFELD, Plantes N. E. Gronl. 

 [G. alpinum, SUTHERLAND, Voyage; DICKIE, Not. fl. pi., in INGLEFIELD, 

 Summer Search; DURAND, PI. Kan. et Enum. pi. Smith S. (incl. var.); 

 HART, Bot. Br. Pol. Exp.; BESSELS, Amer. Nordpol-Exp.; NATHORST, N. 



