List of Vascular Plants. 



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56. Ranunculus hyperboreus Rottböll, Kiöbenhavn, Selsk. 

 Skrifter, Deel 10, 1770, p. 458, tab. 4, fig. 16; Lange, Consp. Fl. 

 Groenl., p. 55, 1880. 



Kruuse, East Greenland, p. 168. 



In Maroussia Isl. typical specimens were collected in fairh' 

 large quantities, and a single specimen occurred from Danmarks 

 Havn. 



At the border of a small tarn near Danmarks Havn a curious 



Fig. 2. Ranunculus hyperboreus Rottb., var. (Nat. size). 



little form i,fig. 2) was found among moss. At first sight it greatly 

 recalls R.pygmaeus Whb. The stem is much shorter than is usual 

 in R. hyperboreus and has only 1 — 2 rooting nodes, or is, in smaller 

 specimens, not at all creeping; the leaf-blades are deeply 3— 5-lobed 

 and the lobes are broadly linear or oblong. Perhaps it is a hybrid 

 between the two species. 



Loc. Germania Land: Danmarks Havn; Maroussia Isl. 

 Flow. Julv 21st 08. 



