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Obs: We have mentioned this plant on the authority of Hooker and Lede- 
bour, but we have much doubt, if it occurs in Arctic regions at all, specimens 
from these we never saw. 
Order XII. LILIACEAE Adans. (By C. H. OsTENFELD). 
A. Styles 3, distinct. 
a. lbeaves ensiform: equitant).-ititics aaclionessie, Sek lis nee ene Tofieidia. 
b. Leaves not ensiform. 
awiWeavessbroadplicatew.mmm-nay tacit sicn en of cam Mcsite racemes ae Veratrum. 
8. Leaves linear or linear lanceolate ................ Zygadenus. 
B. Style 1, undivided. 
asm ruitea (berryits waves coc ae ER oon Choe eee Streptopus. 
f. Fruit a capsule. 
I. Flowers: numerous: mmbellates) ~ ci cncicnas a icreien ts eens, lene Allium. 
II. Flowers single or few in a raceme. 
1. Nectary transversal, stigma undivided, triangular, perianth broad 
jnfindibuliformiaye s:veucn mnie een ce eect RoC nt ake Lloydia. 
2. Nectary-groove oblong, stigma tripartite, perianth campanulate 
Fritillaria. 
1. TOFIELDIA Huds. 
67. T. palustris Huds. FI. Angl. ed. 2. 
Hook. Fl. bor. Am. If p. 179; Taylor, Pl. coll. at Davis Str. and 
Baff. Bay p. 84; Peary, Auxil. Exp. App. C. p. 7; Abromeit, Grénlands- 
expedition p. 78; Nath., Spetsb. Karly. p. 38; Trauty. Pl. Sib. bor. p. 116; 
Feilden, Nov. Zemlya p. 20; Anthericum calyculatum FI. D. t. 36; T. bo- 
realis Wg., Lge. Consp. FI. Groenl. p.122 and 284; Rosenv., Till. p. 712; 
Hartz, Nordést Groénl. p. 342. 
Stem erect, slender, without bracts. Flowers in a short raceme, 
supported by a little involucre consisting of 3 bracts. Flowers 
yellowish. Capsules erect. 
Am.: Port Clarence (!, amongst specimens of T. coccinea, in Herb. 
of the Botan. Mus. at Copenhagen, leg. Kjellman), Labrador (!), Baffin 
Land, West Greenl. Inglefield Gulf and 60°—74° 18’ (!); East Greenl. 60° 
—65° 35’ (), 70°—71° (0). Eur.: Spitsbergen(!), Dolgoi Island. As.: Mouth 
of the Lena, Konyambay (!, amongst spec. of 7. coccinea, in Herb. of the 
Riksmuseum at Stockholm, leg. Kjellman). 
Geogr. area: Northern North America, Rocky Mountains, Iceland, 
Great Britain, Scandinavia, Finland, Lapland, The Alps, Pyrenees, Ural. 
68. T. coccinea Richardson in R. Brown, Verm. Schrift. I. p. 481. 
Hook. Fl. bor. Am. II p. 179; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. IV p. 210; Trautv. 
Pl. Sib. bor. p. 116; Schmidt, Fl. Jeniss. arct. p. 121; Kjellm., Vest Eskim. 
Land p.60, As. Beringss. p. 568; Macoun, Catalogue IV p. 44; Roseny., Till. 
p. 712; Hartz, Nordést Grénl. p. 342; Abromeit, Gronlandsexped. p. 79. 
Stem ascending, stout, often tinged with purple, with 1—3 
bracts. Flowers nearly sessile, the 3-leaved involucre larger than 
