Stray Contributions to the Flora of Greenland I—V. 25 
self for an intended collecting trip to South Greenland, studying her- 
barium specimens of types not occurring in the sections of Greenland 
where he had formerly been. As to the small southern Galium, we had 
only specimens (duplicate) from Kruuvse’s collection mentioned above. 
In comparing these with some European material of G. palustre, he 
realized that the East Greenland plant must be specifically different. 
One of its most important differ- 
ences had already been noticed by 
KRUUSE, namely the trimerous 
flowers. About his plants KRUUSE 
says (Medd. om Grl. 30, p. 255): 
Found butin one place on the edge of a 
pond among moss and grass, but here very 
numerous. 3—10cm. long, richly branched, 
creeping shoots with four-leaved whorls. 
The joints of the stems 0.7—1 cm. long. 
The leaves 1—5 mm. long. ca. 1.5 mm. 
broad. The flowers 1—4 in cyme, abt. 1 
mm. broad, the corollawhite, tripetalous, 
the fruit 0.5—0.8 mm. in diameter. Flow- 
ers from the 10th of July till the 10th 
of August, in fruit on the 20th of August. 
Of course, the species first to 
suggest itself would be G. trifidum, 
which occurs in Iceland, but as the 
East Greenland specimens seemed 
rather different from European ma- 
terial of this species, we turned to 
American literature and soon found 
that the specimens fairly matched 
the description of G. brevipes Fern. 
Fig. 1. Galium Brandegeei Gray from 
3 East Greenland, Tasiussaq, 65737" N., 
& Wieg. leg. C. Kruuse; slightly enlarged. 
LANGE's remark, that G. tri- 
fidum should differ from his “palustre, var. minus” by its trifid 
corolla, can only mean that he had actually seen a tetramerous 
flower. We were therefore prepared to meet any small-sized 
Galium occurring in Northern Europe or America, trimerous 
as well as tetramerous. We hunted many times for them in vain, 
until we got the first, growing in Sphagnum and other mosses 
along the borders of lakes and ponds. This and all subsequent ones were, 
however, G. Brandegeei, according to our excerpts and notes, and we 
did not succeed in finding any tetramerous species. We found G. Brande- 
geei at the following places: Agdluitsoq Fiord at Amitsuarssüp Qingua, 
