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mens are not accessible, belongs more probably to M. triflorum, but 

 later collectors also have found M. affine. It seems, however, to be 

 much rarer here than to the west. 



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

 Umanak and Saunders Island (BALLE); Inglefield Gulf: Northumberland 

 Island (STEIN); Foulke Fjord (HART, 4272). N. Polaris Bay (HART). 



Melandrium trifiorum, (R. BR.) VAHL. 



Lychnis triflora, ROB. BROWN, List of pi., 1819 (nomen solum); 

 WETHERILL, List 1894; L. affinis var. triflora, HART, Bot. Br. Pol. Exp.~ 

 Wahlbergella triflora, FRIES, Sum. Veg. Scand. ; SIMMONS, Prel. Rep. et 

 Bot. Arb.; NATHORST, N. W. Gronl.; Melandrium triflorum, VAHL, in 

 LIEBMANN, Fl. Dan.; ROHRBACH, Syn. Lychn.; LANGE, Gonsp. FJ. Groenl.; 

 HARTZ, Fan. o. Karkr. ; KRUUSE, List E. Greenl. 

 , Fig. Fl. Dan., T. 2356. 



This species seems to be at least as common as the former, and 

 occurs in greater abundance at the points where it is found, at all events 

 by NATHORST and myself. In the rich soil of the old village of Etah, 

 as well as in the slopes where the little auks had their nests, luxuriant 

 specimens were found in abundance. 



Occurrence. S. Ivsugigsok (NATHORST); Inglefield Gulf: Netiu- 

 umi (WETHERILL), Northumberland Island (STEIN), Bowdoin Bay (WETH- 

 ERILL); Foulke Fjord (HART), at Etah (STEIN, 214, 1470). Not yet rec- 

 orded from the region north of the Humboldt Glacier, where it must, 

 however, most probably grow, to judge from the distribution. 



Distribution: Northern East and West Greenland. This is one 

 of the very few endemic species of Greenland. It is indeed recorded 

 also for Northern Ellesmereland, but almost certainly by mistake as I 

 have previously pointed out (Fl. Ellesm., p. 126). 



Melandrium apetalum, (L.) FENZL. 



M. apetalum, SIMMONS, Fl. Ellesm. [Lychnis apetala, DICKIE, Not. 

 fl. pi., in INGLEFIELD, Summer Search; DURAND, Enum. pi. Smith S.; 



species. DURAND, who has both in his list of HAYES' plants, must have made 

 some mistake, and has probably used the name "pauciflora" either for M. affine 

 or M. triflorum. In his PI. Kan. also, DURAND, has both L. apetala and L. 

 pauciflora, the latter recorded for "Bedevilled Reach and other stations of 

 Smith Sound". 



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