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



also in the flowers of another dwarf-form of Lusula arcuata collected 

 in Torne Lappmark by HAGERSTROM. Var. Kjellmani thus is shown 

 to be merely a pathological deformation and the name must be with- 

 drawn. Moreover, the plant in question belongs not to L. spicata but 

 to L arcuata. The former species must, consequently, be excluded from 

 the flora of the area. 



Occurrence. S. Bushnan Island (SUTHERLAND); Ivsugigsok (NAT- 

 HORST); Wolstenholme Sound (!NGLEFIELD); Inglefield Gulf: BurdinBay: 

 (!NGLEFIELD), Northumberland Island (STEIN); Glacier Valley at Robertson 

 Bay, Fan Glacier ( WETHERILL); Foulke Fjord (HART), at Etah (STEIN) and 

 other places (237, 1481, 4254); Fog Inlet (KANE). N. Polaris Bay (HART) 



Lnzula nivalis, (LAEST.) BEURL. 



L. nivalis, SIMMONS, Fl. Ellesm.; OSTENFELD, Plantes N. E. Gronl. 



As in Ellesmereland, this species seems to be a rather rare and 

 sporadic one in North-Western Greenland from whence it is only men- 

 tioned by DURAND, PI. Kan. It may, however, have been found in Foulke 

 Fjord by HART, even though I have seen no specimens to prove it, and 

 NATHORST, as previously mentioned, has also brought it home. 



Occurrence. S. Ivsugigsok (NATHORST); Foulke Fjord (1514, 1895); 

 Bedevilled Reach (KANE). 



Luzula spicata,, (L.) DC. 



As mentioned above, the plant of NATHORST referred to this spe- 

 cies, really belongs to L. arcuata, but still I cannot unreservedly deny 

 the possibility that L. spicata may grow in our area. In the Kew her- 

 barium I saw a specimen, collected at Whale Sound, Aug. 25, 1852, 

 which I have noted as collected by TAYLOR * and belonging to L. spi- 

 cata. It was called L. campestris congesta, but I have noted that the 

 long, pointed sepals and the hairiness at the mouth of the leaf-sheaths, 

 place it under spicata. Not having the specimen at hand for another 

 examination, I am now very doubtful about it. It might be the same 

 deformed L. arcuata as the plant of NATHORST, the real nature of which 

 I first found out in 1906, two years after my visit to London ; or it may 

 also be supposed, that TAYLOR, whose collections were made in different 

 places among them Danish Greenland and Baffin Land where L. spi- 



1 I know nothing, however, about TAYLOR having visited these regions, as no plants 

 from there are included in his FJ. pi. Baffin B. 



