72 H. G. SIMMONS. [sec. arct. exp. fram 



calyce duplo longioribus; calyce, ovario, caule, foliisque caulinis super- 

 ioribus nigroglandulosis, plus minus viscidis. 



This, in Ellesmereland, is the most common form, spread in diffe- 

 rent sorts of locaHties, principally in gravel plains, slopes, and rookeries. 

 Only in a few places, in the shade of rocks or in especially flourishing 

 vegetation it would go over into forms more like those from southern 

 parts of the area of the species. The flowers were found from the 

 middle of June till the end of the summer. 



Besides the forms connecting the var. uniflora with the type, there 

 are also two other forms of it to be mentioned. At Walrus Island Hart 

 has, July 1875, collected a specimen, which was all, or at least most 

 of the leaves, entire, rounded, obovate, but for the rest like var. uni- 

 flora. It might perhaps be worthy of a name, but I shall abstain from 

 giving it one, as I have seen so little of it. But to another form a 

 separate name shall be given : forma flavescens n. f. : contracta vel fere 

 acaulis, dense pulvinata, minus nigro-glandulosa, floribus magnis, petalis 

 pallide flavis. 



In Ellesmereland, this was only once found in a clay plain, but I 

 also collected it in Devil's Island in Cardigan Strait. In Greenland it 

 also may occur, as Lange says about S. decipiens: "petala luteolo- 

 alba". In the common form of S. groenlandica the petals are always 

 purely white, but in dried specimens one cannot be quite sure of the 

 real colour. Perhaps this form might be ranged as a variety besides 

 var. uniflora, but still I think it better only to give it rank as a form 

 thereof. 



Occurrence. Specimens of the main form, or at least very like 

 it, I have from the South coast : Harbour Fjord at the anchorage (2327) ; 

 valley at the bottom of Goose Fjord (3273). Var. uniflora. North 

 coast: Floeberg Beach (Hart). East coast: common probably every- 

 where along the coast. According to Hart, 1. c, p. 30, it should be 

 the most common plant in Grinnell Land, and it is mentioned by 

 Durand from Gale Point. Specimens from the Hayes Sound region: 

 Cape Rutherford (312), Bedford Pim Island (298, 445, 1185). South 

 coast: observed almost everywhere. Specimens from: Fram Fjord (1656); 

 Harbour Fjord, Sir Inglis Peak (2171, 2448); Goose Fjord, Yellow Hill 

 (3574), Midday Knoll (3496, 3638), 3rd winter quarters (3182), Falcon 

 Cliff (4222), interior of Walrus Fjord. (2112). West coast: along the 

 Hell Gate, at Lands End, and between Eidsfjord and Baumann Fjord, 

 doubtless also further northwards, but not brought home from the 



