70 H. G. SIMMONS. [sec. arct. exp. feam 



nivalis forma monstrosa, floribus proliferis" of Oliver, about which 

 Hart, 1. c, p. 31, says, "may possibly be a variety of S. Virginiensis, 

 Mich.," is really this plant. 



It was in general found in wet places, in swamps, or in shady 

 locahties among moss. 



Occurrence. Grinnell Land: Shift Rudder Bay (leg. Feilden!), 

 Discovery Harbour (leg. Hart!). Hayes Sound district: Skraling Island 

 in Alexandra Fjord (1382), Lastraea Valley (1237), Cape Rutherford 

 (1158), Fram Harbour (1098, 1420), Bedford Pim Island at Cape Sabine 

 (276) and on the south side. South coast: Harbour Fjord, Big Valley, 

 Seagull Rock, Sir Inglis Peak, at the Western Sound (2436), Lake Valley 

 (2462), Spade Point (2530, 2574); Goose Fjord, Yellow Hill (4221), and 

 several places around the 3rd winter quarters. West coast: only ob- 

 served at Lands End. 



Distribution: Northern East Greenland, West Greenland, Arctic 

 American Archipelago, Arctic America, Labrador, Maine, Colorado, Pri- 

 bilof Islands, Arctic Siberia, Arctic Russia, Novaja Semlja, Spitsbergen, 

 Franz Joseph Land, Northern Scandinavia. The main species also in 

 the Baical Mountains, Central and South European mountains. Great 

 Britain, Faeroes, Iceland. 



Saxifraga groenlandica, L. 



jS. groenlandica, Linnaeus, Sp. plant., 1753; S. caespitosa, Linnaeus, 1. c, ex p., 

 secus Engler, Mon. Saxifr.; Hart, Bot. Br. Pol. Exp.; Greely, Rep.; Simmons, 

 Prel. Rep. ; Hooker, F1. Bor. Amer. ; Britton & Brown, 111. Fl. ; Ledebour, 

 Fl. Ross.; Andersson & Hesselman, Spetsb. karlv. ; Hartman, Skand. Fl. ; S. 

 decipiens, Ehrhart, ex Engler, 1. c. ; Sternberg, Revis. Saxifr. ; Lange, Consp. 

 Fl. Groenl.; Krbuee, List E. Greenl., et Jan May.; Gronlund, Isl. Fl. ; Osten- 

 FELD, Phan. Faer. ; S- decip. f. caespitosa, Kjellman, in Vegaexp. 

 Fig. Sv. Bot, T. 731; Fl. Dan., T. 71, 1388. 



Engler, 1, c, p. 187, points out, that Linnaeus has understood by 

 his S. caespitosa both certain forms of that plant found in Scandinavia 

 which has afterwards usually passed under this name in our floristic 

 literature, as well as the S. moschata, Wulf. which is commonly spread 

 in the Alps. As the name S. caespitosa is further used by different 

 authors, now for one, now for another plant, he deems it best to let the 

 ambiguous name S- caespitosa fall, and to use other names for the 

 two plants that Linnaeus united. This may be quite right, but in doing 

 so, he nevertheless, in my opinion, becomes guilty of two faults, viz., 

 for one thing he uses the name caespitosa, L. for a sub-species of the 

 plant which he calls S. decipiens, Ehrh., for the other, he uses the 



