1898 1902. No. 16. J FLOW. PLANTS AND FERNS OF N.-W. GREENLAND. 79 



W. Gronl.; MEEHAN, Contr. Greenl.; WETHERILL, List 1894; GREELY, 

 Rep.; OSTENFELD, Fl. pi. Cape York; C. vulgatum, BESSELS, Exp. Pol. 

 Amer.] 



This common arctic plant has been brought home from, or at least 

 observed at, almost every place visited. My specimens, collected in the 

 rich soil of the old Eskimo village of Etah, represent a big, rather 

 hairy form, probably the same as the var. Fischerianum in DURAND, 

 Enum. pi. Smith S. 



Occurrence. S. Bushnan Island (SUTHERLAND); Gape York (HART, 

 WETHERILL, STEIN); between that point and Gape Dudley Digges (KANE); 

 Ivsugigsok (NATHORST), between Cape Dudley Digges and Cape Atholl 

 (KANE); Wolstenholme Sound (MEEHAN), at Umanak and Saunders Is- 

 land (BALLE); Inglefield Gulf: Burdin Bay (!NGLEFIELD), Netiulumi (WETH- 

 ERILL), Glacier Valley, Cape Acland, Fan Glacier (WETHERILL); Carey 

 Islands (WETHERILL); Port Foulke (HAYES); Foulke Fjord (HART), at 

 Etah (STEIN, 250, 1462); Rensselaer Bay (KANE); Mary Minturn River 

 (KANE). N. Lafayette Bay (KANE); Bessels Bay, Hannah Island, .Cape 

 Morton (HART); Hall Land (BESSELS); Polaris Bay (HART); Lockwood 

 Island (LOCKWOOD). 



Stellaria humifusa, ROTTB. 



S. humifusa, SIMMONS, Fl. Ellesm. [S. humifusa, DURAND, Enum. 

 pi. Smith S.; HART, Bot. Br. Pol. Exp.; NATHORST, N. W. Gronl.; WETH- 

 ERILL, List 1894]. 



Notwithstanding the fact that HART records this species from Foulke 

 Fjord, I did not find it there. I should think it very probable, how- 

 ever, that it grows in the innermost part of the fjord, in front of the 

 Brother John's Glacier, which I could not reach during our short stay. Ac- 

 cording to TH. HOLM (Contr. Fl. Greenl.) the S. longipes var. Edwardsii of 

 MEEHAN (Contr. Greenl.), should be the present species. I dare not, 

 however, refer the locality Verhoeff Nunatak here, as it would be quite 

 contrary to the nature of S. humifusa to grow in such a locality. 

 MEEHAN has probably confounded the two species, and the specimen 

 seen by HOLM, has been collected in a place not recorded in MEEHAN'S 

 list perhaps in Danish Greenland. 



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

 Dalrymple Island (WETHERILL); Inglefield Gulf: Northumberland Island 

 (STEIN), Netlik (HAYES); Foulke Fjord (HART). 



