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Кар Wandel, Nigertusok, Kangerdlugsuatsiak, Kingorsuak, Aki- 

 liarisek, Tunok, Kuarmiut, Misutok, Elvbakker, Tasiusak (Bay), 

 Kong Oscars Havn (Berlin) ! 



51. Batrachium paiicistamineuni (Tausch.) 

 var. eradicata (Læstad.). 



Gelert: Bot. Tidsskr. Bd. 19, p. 28. Hartz Fanerog. p. 392. 

 Ranunc. confervoides Fr. Lge. Consp. Fl. Groenl. p. 54 & 253. 



In а pond with c. 40 ctm. deep water on sandy ground covered 

 with a mudlayer abt. 1 ctm. thick numerous 5 — 15 ctm. high speci- 

 mens were found. The lobes of the leaves 1,5 — 2 ctm.; with one 

 (two) flowers; 5 — 7 mm, in diameter, pollen well developped, sets 

 abundant ripe fruit. A few specimens with very short (4 mm.) 

 thick lobes were found in a dried up place in the pond, evidently 

 a form of drought. 



Pond in Amakâ near Kordlortok, Tasiusak (Bay.) ! 



52. Ranuuculus glaciaHs L. 



Lge. Consp. Fl. Groenl. p. 54 & 254 , Berlin Kärlväxter 

 p. 19. Hartz Fanerog. p. 392. 



Widely distributed in table-land, especially on the coast and 

 on the shady side of the mountains in the interior. 5 — 15 ctm. 

 high. Flowers from the 10*'' of June — the P' of August; the flowers 

 15 — 30 mm. in diameter, first reddish purple-brownish red, later 

 on red and at last white and widely open. Sets rich ripe fruit 

 in August. The seeds well developped. The plant is fond of 

 humidity and is often found on dripping wet ground on the border 

 of snow drifts. It begins flowering already 2 — 3 days after having 

 become snowless. 



Kong Oscars Havn (Berlin) ! Tasiusak (Bay.) ! 



53. Ranunculus pygmaeus Wahlbg. 



Lge. Const. Fl. Groenl. p. 55 & 254. 



Widely distributed in humid cold shady places as well on the 

 coast as in the interior, but is most often found on the shady side 

 of the mountains and along perennial snow-drifts. This explains 

 that neither Berlin nor Bay has collected it. 



