﻿PLANTS KANE AN iE GR(ENLANDIC^E. 197 



Man. ed. 1st, p. 409. It is, in those regions, the ordinary food of deer and rabbits. 

 Dr. Kane. 



Fiske Fiord, 64° ; Disko, 70° ; and on Smith's Sound. 



BETULACE^. 



73. Betula nana, Linn. Engl. Bot. T. 349. PurshV Fl., p. 622. Fl. Dan. T. 

 91. 



Holsteinborg, G8 C 



SALICACE^E. 



74. Salix desertorum, Rich, app., p. 37. Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2, p. 151. 

 Fiske Fiord, 64°. 



75. S. uva-ursi, Pursh's Fl., p. 610. Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2, p. 152. A. Gray. 

 Man. ed. 1st, p. 429. S. glauca, Horn. app. Cap. Graah's Voy. and Dr. Kane. Stem 

 erect, one foot high, or prostrate. Bark of branches greenish. Leaves elliptical or 

 obovate, slightly toothed, glabrous and shining above, glaucous beneath. The speci- 

 mens are all in a fruiting state and larger than those of the White Mountains. Cat- 

 kins long, cylindrical, rather loose ; pods glabrous, shortly pedicellate, tapering into a 

 beak, of an orange color or turning black. 



Fiske Fiord and Sukkertoppen, 64 and 65°. 



76. S. arctica, R. Br. Ross' Voy. ed 2d, vol. 2, p. 194, and in Melville Island 

 Plants, p. 272, (not Pallas). Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2, p. 152. 8. Janata! Dr. K. 

 Prostrate with tortuous branches furnished with a light brown or yellow bark. Leaves 

 entire and very variable, (lanceolate-acute, elliptic, oval or obovate, cuneate or spathu- 

 late,) strongly veined, subsericeous with long hairs, when young or even in the fruiting 

 stage, generally very apt to turn black on drying. Fertile catkins long pedun- 

 culate, cylindrical or ovoid-oblong ; scales villous, broad-oval, of a brown or dusky 

 color. Style elongated. Ovary thickly tomentose. 



Sukkertoppen, 65°; Holsteinborg, 68° ; as far as 76° N. latitude. 



I have been somewhat perplexed with specimens collected by Dr. Kane at the 

 Smith's Sound Stations. They are comparatively smaller in all their parts, and have 

 dried yellow, probably from some atmospheric causes, or the more advanced season. 

 Some of these specimens, with leaves quite lanceolate and acute at both ends, and 

 small ovoid catkins, resemble the figure of S. Lapponum, in Fl. Dan. T. 1050, except 

 that their leaves are petiolate. They are, however, subject to all the same variations 

 in leaves and catkins as S. arctica of the lower latitudes, and Dr. Torrey says they 

 agree well with the Hookerian specimens of his herbarium. 



