350 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [OCTOBER 
ovaria ovoideo-oblonga, dense albo-villoso-tomentosa, subsessilia; 
styli distincti, bifidi vel bipartiti (brachiis saepe divaricatis) stig- 
matibus brevibus oblongis bifidis haud vel ad duplo breviores; 
glandula 1, ventralis, ut in masculis, bractea circ. duplo brevior. 
Fructus ovoideo-conici, ut videtur ad 8-9 mm. longi, minus dense 
quam ovaria villosi, subsessiles. 
TYPE LOCALITY: South Greenland, Ilua, lat. bor. 59°55’. 
RANGE: Southern and western Greenland. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Greenland: Ilua, lat. bor. 59°55’, May 15-31, 
1889, E. L. Lundholm (m., f., type; M.); Sermiliarsuk, circ. 61°30’, August 3, 
1889, N. Hartz (ir.; N.); Kingua Kuanersok, circ. 62°, July 12, 1880, NV. Harts 
(m.; N.); Kvanefjord S. f. Frederickshaab, 1886, L. K. Rosenvinge (no. 
18873 Q., fr.; needs further observation); Godthaabs district, Kobbefjord, 
June 28, 1884, Warming and Holm (m., f.; G.); Holstenborg, June 14, 1889, 
magi 
observanda); Godthavn, August 2, 1896, Cornell Party (m., f.; Cor.; forma 
ut videtur prostrata aspectu S. Gislerin non absimilis sed characteribus 
florum ab S. anamesa typica non diversa); Nugsuak Peninsula, Camp 2, 
August 10, 1896, Cornell Party (fr.; Cor.; forma porro observanda, bracteis 
magis ohevatie fructibus breviter pedicellatis, foliis apice saepe subito breviter 
plicato-acuminatis); Wilcox Head, August 15, 1896, Cornell Party (f., fr.; 
Cor.; forma porro observanda, amentis fructiferis ad 4.5:1.4 cm. magnis, 
fructibus pedicello quam glandula vix breviore suffultis, foliis ad 4:2 cm. 
—— pl. m. obovato-ellipticis); Camp 3, August 20, 1896, Cornell Party 
; Cor.; forma foliis satis breviter petiolatis ceterum paullo ad S. anglorum 
accedens); Upernivik, 72°47’, July 18, 1886, L. K. Rosenvinge (no. 24514 O., f.; 
ooks very much like S. cordifolia but the pubescence reminds more of S. 
anglorum; on July 24 the same collector found a specimen at Proven which 
I cannot distinguish from S. anglorum); Cape York, July 23, 1804 , E. 
Wetherill (no. 214; G.; specimen mancum dubium tantum amentis reactivate 
adultis praeditum habitu valde ad S. anglorum spectans sed bracteis breviter 
villosis oblongis); Omenak (Umanak) Fjord, Omenak Island, August 9, 1897, 
D. White and Ch. Schuchert (no. 156, fr.; N.; forma porro observanda, foliis 
ad 4.5:2 magnis, amentis fructiferis ad 3.5 cm. longis et 1.6 cm. crassis). 
As already said, this species is certainly most closely related to 
S. cordifolia, from which it a. differs by the presence of stomata 
in the upper leaf surface. I should have treated it as a variety of 
this species were it not for the fact that there are a number of quasi 
intermediate forms between it and S. anglorum. On the other 
