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Grows in clay or rocky soil, doing best in the former (Greely); 

 in bloom June 22, 1883. 



Occurrence. Grinnell Land, Lady Franklin Bay: Discovery Har- 

 bour(!) Bellot Island, Mount Cartmel (Hart, Greely). 



Distribution: Grinnell Land, Western Arctic America, Rocky 

 Mountains, Alaska, whole temperate Asia and Europe. 



Diapensiaceae. 



Dia^pensia lapponica,, L. 



D. lapponica, Linnaeus, Sp. plant., 1753; Lange, Consp. Fl. Groenl. ; Kruuse, List 

 E. Greenl.; Hooker, Fl. Bor. Amer.; Britton & Brown, 111. Fl. ; Greely, Rep.; 

 Ledebour, Fl. Ross.; Kjellman, in Vegaexp. 



Fig. Sv. Bot., T. 517; Fl. Dan., T. 47. 



This species is only stated by Greely. As here also no specimens 

 are known from adjacent regions, either on the Greenland, or on the 

 American side, the distribution must be supposed to be only very im- 

 perfectly known. The nearest place where it is found in the Archipelago 

 is southern Baffia> Land, in Greenland it is found northwards to 74° 18'. 



Greely, Three years, App. IX, p. 391, says: "Only a single 

 specimen of this plant was found, and Sergeant Jewell, the collector, 

 was unable to give exact information as to its habitat." 



Occurrence. Grinnell Land, Discovery Harbour (Greely). 



Distribution: East Greenland to Scoresby Sound, West Green- 

 land, Grinnell Land, Baffin Land, Arctic America westwards to Great 

 Fish River, Labrador, Adirondacks, White Mountains of New Hamp- 

 shire, St. Lawrence Island, Land of the Chukches, and westward to the 

 Lena River, Kamshatka, Japan, northern Ural, arctic Russia, northern 

 Scandinavia, Iceland. 



Ericaceae. 



Myrtillus uliginosa, (L.) Drej. 

 var. microphylla,, (Lange) Simm. 



Yaccinium uUginosum, L. *microphyUum, Lange, Consp. Fl. Groenl.; V. uUg. var. 

 microphyllum, Nathorst, N. W. Gronl.; Kruuse, List E. Greenl.; Y. pube- 

 scens, Hornemann, Fl. Dan., T. 1516, non Y. ulig. var. pubescens, Lange, I.e.; 

 Y. uUginosum, Hooker, Fl. Bor. Amer., ex p. ; Hart, Bot. Br. Pol. Exp. ; 

 MyrtUlus uliginosa var. microphylla, Simmons, Prel. Rep. et Bot. Arb. 

 Fig. Fl. Dan., T. 1516. 



Notwithstanding the intermediate forms between this and the typical 



one, from Jylland, the Faeroes, etc., of which Lange speaks himself, he 



