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



Stellaria, longipes, GOLDIE. 



S. longipes, SIMMONS, Fl. Ellesm.; OSTENFELD, Plantes N. E. Gronl. 

 [S. longipes, DICKIE, Not. fl. pi., in INGLEFIELD, Summer Search; DURAND, 

 PI. Kan. (inch varr.); NATHORST, N. W. Gronl.; HART, Bok. Br.Pol.Exp.; 

 WETHERILL, List 1894; OSTENFELD, Fl. pi. Cape York; S. stricta, DUR- 

 AND, Enum. pi. Smith S.]. 



In Foulke Fjord, where the plant was very common, I found the 

 var. humilis, FENZL, the same in which it generally appears in Elles- 

 mereland, as well as another, less condensed, and glaucous form, which 

 comes nearest to var. peduncularis, (BUNGE) FENZL (St. peduncularis, 

 BUNGE, in LEDEBOUR, Fl. Alt.). The first-mentioned form grew in open 

 soil, gravelly places, etc., the latter among grass along brooks in the 

 slope above Etah (1499). 



Occurrence. S. Ivsugigsok (NATHORST); Wolstenholme Sound 

 (INGLEFIELD); Granville Bay (MYLIUS ERICHSEN); Inglefield Gulf: Burdin 

 Bay (INGLEFIELD), Northumberland Island (WETHERILL, STEIN), Netiulumi, 

 Fan Glacier, (WETHERILL), Verhoeff Nunatak (MEEHAN, compare above 

 under S. humifusa), Netlik (HAYES); Foulke Fjord (HART), at Reindeer 

 Point and Etah (STEIN, 211, 1499); Bedevilled Reach and Rensselaer 

 Bay (KANE). 



Melandrium a f fine, J. VAHL. 



M. af fine, SIMMONS, Fl. Ellesm.; M. invohicratmn ft affine, OSTEN- 

 FELD, Plantes N. E. Gronl. [M. affine, OSTENFELD, Fl. pi. Gape York; 

 Lychnis affinis, HART, Bot. Br. Pol. Exp. ; Wahlbergella affinis, NAT- 

 HORST, N. W. Gronl.]. 



In Foulke Fjord I found only one single individual of this species, 

 the following, which was not found in Ellesmereland, being here the 

 most abundant. KANE did not bring home either of them, only M. 

 apetalum; but some of his notes about "Lychnis', for instance, at the 

 mouth of Mary Minturn River in Bancroft Bay, and from the shore of 

 Kennedy Channel, belong most probably here. The "Lychnis pauci- 

 flora" of HAYES 1 of which I can form no distinct opinion as the speci- 



1 Indeed DURAND, Enum. pi. Smith S., records a "Lychnis pauciflora, FISCH." from 

 Netlik, but as he has also besides L. apetala, he does not use the name in the same 

 sense as FISCHER himself (L. pauciflora, FISCH. in litt. is a synonym of L. ape- 

 tala, according to DECANDOLLE, Prodr. I, p. 386). According to ROHRBACH, Syn. 

 Lychn., the author of L. pauciflora is LEDEBOUR, even though the specimens in 

 the herbarium of FISCHER are referred to under Melandrium apetalum. LEDE- 

 BOUR himself, in his Fl. Ross., has his L. pauciflora as a synonym of the latter 



