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separate from I>. and rosacea, Walil., which is often pale yellow ; the 

 colours white and yellow are of no value in describing a species in 

 these latitudes. In flower June 29th, Discovery Bay ; Floeberg 

 Beach (coll. Moss); Cape Joseph Henry (H. W. F.) 

 Sea-level to 2000 feet in Discovery Bay. 



]). alpina (var. iilabra). 



Dist. 1 12. Lat. 69° 15' to 81° 42'. W. and G. 



Englishman's Bay, Disco, and Discovery Bay. 



IK muriceUa, Wahl. 



Dist. 1 12. Lat. 69° 15' to 81° 42'. W. and G. 



Disco in small quantities, and again at Discovery Bay. Very 

 close to 1). rupestris, but narrower in the lanceolate silicles, and 

 generally to be distinguished by the keeled leaf and stellate down ; 

 it varies much in the degree of hairiness. This species was late 

 in flowering ; it is not included in Lange's Greenland list. 



200 feet in Musk Ox Fiord. 



]>. hirta, L. 



Dist. 1 2 3 - - - 7 - - - 11 12. Lat 69° 15' to 81° 42'. E./W.&G. 

 Decreasing and becoming stunted to the north ; flowers of a 

 paler yellow at Dobbin Bay. Flowering June 29th, Discovery Bay. 

 500 feet at Disco. 



Cochlearia officinalis, L. 



Dist. 1. Lat. 69° 15'. G. 



Abundant at Disco, especially about the governor's house. 



C. officinalis (var. i/nenlantlica). 



Dist. - - 3 - 5 6 11 12. E. and W. 



Polaris Bay (coll. Copp.) 



C. am/lica, L. (var. fenestrata, Br.) 



Dist - " f 12 13. Lat. 72° 20' to 82° 27'. W. & G. 



In dry rocky situations at Proven. Very local about Discovery 

 Bay; in river-beds at Watercourse Bay, to the north-east of Dis- 

 covery Bay, St. Patrick's Bay ; Floeberg Beach (H. W. F. and coll. 



Moss). Sea-level to 400 feet upon raised beaches at St. Patrick's 

 Lay. 



Hesperis Pailasii, T. & G. (Cheiranthus vugmam, Adams, H. 



minima, T. & G.) UJ 



£. Lst - 5 12. Lat. 78° 18' to 81° 42'. E. & W. 



.birst met with at Foulke Fiord, where it was very plentiful; 



ery 



Some- 



times very luxuriant ; one plant in Discovery Bay had thirteen 

 flowering branches from one rootstock, making a beautiful rose- 

 coloured bouquet, with a faint sweet scent like hawthorn. Plants 

 on tfeliot Island were from eight to ten inches in height, and bore 

 great numbers of long fruit-pods. Sometimes the flowers of this 

 species were tenanted by a minute red dipterous insect. Bequires 

 a dry situation. In flower 29th June. 



Braya alpina, Sternb. 



Di8t - 8 9 - 11 12 13. Lat. 79° 28' to 82° 27'. E.&W. 



