132 H. G. SIMMONS. [sec. arct. exp. FraM 



and in many places it showed decidedly a defoliation already before the 

 frost set in, a phenomenon not observed in any other plant in these 

 regions, where generally the dead leaves rest upon the plant until 

 they decay. 



Occurrence. F. typica. Hayes Sound region: Skraling Island 

 (1374), Cocked Hat Island (4234). South coast: Goose Fjord, east of 

 3rd quarters (4233). 



Var. Brownii. North coast and Grinnell Land, common (Hart; I 

 have referred all statements from the Northern region to the most 

 common form, as Hart has not made any difference between the forms 

 even if he speaks of the great variability), already recorded by Hayes 

 from Cape Frazer; in the interior at Lake Hazen (Greely). Hayes 

 Sound region, extremely common, specimens from: Cape Viele (885), 

 table land of Cape Rutherford (1202), Fram Harbour (1419), Cocked Hat 

 Island (1216), Bedford Pim Island (299, 1310). Southern East coast: 

 Cape Isabella and Gale Point (Hayes). South coast: common, specimens 

 from: Fram Fjord (1647); Goose Fjord (2891, 2893, 3299). West coast: 

 along the Hell Gate to Lands End, between Eidsfjord and Baumann 

 Fjord, Coal Bay, Braskerud Plain (692, leg. Isachsen), Bay Fjord (476, 

 leg. Bay). 



Var. groenlandica. Only found on the north side of Fram Har- 

 bour (683). 



Distribution: Greenland, Arctic American Archipelago, Arctic 

 America, Labrador, Rocky Mountains, Alaska, Islands of the Bering 

 Sea, Arctic Siberia, Kamshatka, Altai, Novaja Semlja. 



Juncaceae. 



Juncus biglumis, L. 



J. biglumis, Linnaeus, Sp. plant., 1753; Buchenau, Mon. June; Gelert, in Ostenfeld, 

 Fl. Arct.; Lange, Consp. FJ. Groenl. ; Kbuuse, List E. GreenL; Nathobst, N. 

 W. GrSnL ; Hart, Bot. Br. Pol. Exp.; Gbeely, Rep.; Hooker, Fl. Bor. Amer. ; 

 BRrrTON & Brown, 111. Fl. ; Macoun, PI. Pribilof; Kjellman, in Vegaexp. ; 

 Ledebour, Fl. Ross ; Andersson & Hesselman, Spelsb. karlv. 

 Fig. Sv. Bot., T. 497, f. 2; Fl. Dan., T. 120. 



Rather commonly spread in swamps, along brooks and in inundated 

 soil. In flower from the beginning of July. 



Occurrence. North coast: Floeberg Beach (Hart). Grinnell Land : 

 Shift Rudder Bay, St Patrick's Bay, Discovery Harbour north of Prin- 

 cess Marie Bay (Hart, Greely). Hayes Sound region, rather common, 

 specimens from: "Fort Juliane" (677), table land of Cape Rutherford 



