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upper surface and on the margin, do not have stomata in the upper 
epidermis, and their villous petioles are hardly 5 mm. long. Some 
of the leaves, especially in no. 89, show a few fine distant teeth 
toward the base. The branchlets of the season are covered with 
rather long villous hairs, while the older ones become glabrous and 
of a shining dark purplish color. The fruiting aments measure up 
to 4.5 by 1.5 cm.,and the capsules are about 10 mm. long, including 
the very short pedicels. The habit of the plant cannot clearly be 
recognized, but there is another very similar fruiting specimen col- 
lected by H. E. Wetherill, at Netiulene, Whale Sound, North Green- 
land, August 13, 1894 (no. 226; G.), which certainly is taken from 
a prostrate plant. This number is enumerated by RyDBERG (1899) 
under S. anglorum, but it lacks the stomata in the upper epidermis, 
and seems more closely connected with the var. ovalifolia, being 
however a little more glabrescent than the other 2 specimens men- 
tioned. The sessile capsules are about 8 mm. long, and the bracts 
somewhat darker. 
The var. angustifolia Lange, Fl. Dan. 17. fasc. 50:11. pl. 2982. 
1880, is a very striking narrow-leaved form, the type of which came 
from Iceland (“prope Myvatu Islandiae legit cl. Lundgren”). I 
much doubt if it is the same as S. glauca a sericea 4 angustifolia And. 
(1868). LANGE (Consp. Fl. Gr. 1:110) refers to it specimens from 
western and eastern Greenland which I have had no opportunity to 
compare. The only specimen I saw which somewhat resembles 
Lance's plate is Wetherill’s no. 225 from the north side of the Jones 
Sound, August 1894 (f.; G.), but here the leaves have stomata 1n 
the upper epidermis and the rather silky pubescence of the dark 
bracts points more to S. anglorum, of which it may be a narrow- 
leaved form. I have seen rather similar specimens of S. anglorum 
from southwestern Victoria Land (R. M. Anderson) and north- 
eastern Greenland (A. Lundager). : 
LANGE’s last var. alpina (not S. glauca 6 alpina And., which is 
the same as S. glauca B macrocarpa Ledeb.) is described as a “iro- 
ticulus humilis, repens vel prostratus, ramis adscendentibus, foliis 
minutis, raro ultra 4 poll. longis,” and as the type there has to be 
taken a specimen collected by R. Brown (of Campster) in 1867 at 
Jakobshavn in western Greenland (S. glauca Brown in Trans. Bot. 
