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Cape Rutherford (310), Fram Harbour (287, 1414), Cocked Hat Island 

 (1266), Bedford Pirn Island (258). Southern East coast: Cape Isabella and 

 Gale Point (Duranu), Cape Faraday (Wetherill). South coast: common; 

 specimens from : Fram Fjord (1617), Harbour Fjord (2231, 4197, the latter 

 f. scMzopetala), Goose Fjord (2879, 3329, 3646). West coast: along the 

 Hell Gate to Lands End, between Eidsfjord and Baumann Fjord (2735, 

 leg. Baumann), Coal Bay, Braskerud Plain (702, leg. Isachsen). Var. 

 Hartianum: North coast and Grinnell Land (Hart, specimens from 

 Discovery Harbour!). Hayes Sound, recorded by Hart, but not com- 

 mon, as it seemed to me. South coast, abundant in the Barren Vallies 

 (2898) and also at the western entrance (2455) in Harbour Fjord; Ptar- 

 migan Gorge (2997) and other places in the interior of the Goose Fjord. 

 Distribution: everywhere in the Arctic Regions (excl. Jan 

 Mayen), Labrador, Rocky Mountains, islands of the Bering Sea, Kam- 

 shatka, Altai, Scandinavian mountains, Faeroes, Iceland. 



Ftanunculacea. 



Ranunculus affinis, R. Br. 



B. affinis, Rob. Brown, Chlor. Melv., 1823; Richardson, App. Franklin \. Ed. 2; 

 Lange, Consp. Fl. Groenl. ; Simmons, Prel. Rep. et Bot. Arb. ; Hooker, FL 

 Bor. Amer., excl. ^ eiy; Kjellman, in Vegaexp. ; Ledebour, Fl. Ross.; Nathorst, 

 Nya bidr. ; B. arcticus, RicaaARDsoN, App. Franklin I, Ed. 1 ; Kruuse, List E. 

 Greenl.; .B. antoenus, Ledebour, Ic. pi. Fl. Ross.; Freyn, in Andehssok & 

 Hesselman, Spetsb. kSrlv. ; B. pedatifidus, Davis, Ran. N. Amer.; Britton & 

 Bhown, 111. FL; non Smith in Rees, Cyclop. 29, nee Hooker, 1. c; B. auri- 

 comus, Feilden, Flow. pi. Nov. Zeml. 



Fig. Hooker, 1. o. I, T. 6; Ledebour, Ic. pi. Fl. Ross., T. 113; Fl. Dan., T. 

 3029; Tab. nostra 4, fig 2-5. 



It has been rather troublesome to ascertain which name the plant here 

 in question should rightly bear. For a time I was inclined to think 

 that it might be the R. pedatifidus of Smith, described in Rees' Cyclo- 

 pedia, Vol. 29, which name, as already published in 1819, would then 

 have to be preferred. This seemed the more probable, as an american 

 author, who has in later times, especially studied the genus, Davis, 1. c, 

 had adopted that name. But, during my stay in London, I had occasion 

 to see the original description as well as the specimen in the Linnaean 

 herbarium from which it is made. Already on the perusal of the de- 

 scription I doubted whether the arctic american plant could be meant. 

 Even though the description applied, in many points, fairly well to my 

 specimens, there were yet some characters which did not correspond to 

 it; for instance, when the stem was described as being "clothed with 



