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35. P. aurea, /?. D. C. Prodr. 2, p. 576. P. salisburgensis, Hsenke, Torr. and Gr. 

 1, p. 441. A single specimen with leafy and sparingly hirsute 2 — 3-flowered stem?. 

 Radical leaves 3— 5-foliolate, leaflets obovate, nearly glabrous, flowers on long filiform 

 pedicels. Petals obcordate, deep yellow, nearly twice the size of the calyx. Re- 

 sembling exactly the fig. of P. aurea spontanea of Haller's Synops. Potent. T. 8. 



Fiske Fiord, 64°. 



36. P. tridentata, Ait. Mich, Fl. Bor. Am. 1, p. 304. Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 1, p. 

 195. Torr. and Gr. 1, p. 445. 



Sukkertoppen, 65° ; Holsteinborg, 68°; Rensselaer Harbor, 79°. 



ONAGRACE^. 



37. Epilobium angustifolium, Linn. Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 1, p. 205. E. sulcatum, 

 Lam. Diet. Bot. Torr. and Gr. 1, p. 487.. 



Fiske Fiord, Disko, Upernavik, 72°. 



38. E. latifolium, Linn. Fl. Dan. T. 365. Pursh's Fl. p. 259. Torr. and Gr. 1, 



p. 487. 



Fiske Fiord, 64 p ; Upernavik, 73*. 



CRASSULACE^E. 



39. Sedum rhodiola, D. C. Prodr. 3, p. 401. Rhodiola rosea, Linn. R. odorata, 

 Lam. Illustr. T. 1035. Torr. and Gr. 1, p. 558.. 



Holsteinborg, 68° ; Upernavik, 73°. 



SAXIFRAGACE^E. 



40. Saxifraga oppositifolia, Linn. Fl. Lapp. T. 2. Pursh's Fl. p. 311. Hook. Fl. 

 Bor. Am. 1, p. 243. Torr. and Gr. 1, p. 563. 



At almost every station of the 1st and 2d Voyages. 



This species varies very much in its forms: I have stems scarcely one inch high, 

 densely cespitose, with, leaves all imbricated in four rows and flowers almost sessile : 

 others with numerous branches thickly set and spreading on. the ground, leaves im- 

 bricated in the inferior part and opposite towards the top ; others again with long 

 sterile branches and leaves all opposite and remote. I have also the form S. Esch- 

 scholtzii of Sternb., with silvery gray foliage, which cannot be separated from this 

 species. From the large and beautiful purple flowers, apparently monopetalous, which 

 are peculiar to this species, I have no doubt it is the plant mistaken for a gentian by 

 Dr. Kane, in the narrative of his first expedition. 



From N. Proven, 72°, to the most northern stations of Smith's Sound. 



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