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gldbularis, L., are found. The question is, can it therefore be assumed, 

 that Allioni has had in mind the plant which generally goes under the 

 name C. ornithopoda, Willd., and that consequently this should by 

 rights be called C. pedata, All., and that the plant of Wahlenberg 

 should have a new name? The statement about the habitat "in sylvis 

 subhumidis montanis" and its place beside C. digitata, speak undeni- 

 ably in favour of this. Linnaeus also has his C. pedata placed beside 

 C. digitata, and it is recorded as growing "in Helvetia, Anglia, Lap- 

 ponia", viz., regions where C. ornithopoda is found. But as it is not 

 proved to be a certainty what Linnaeus or Allioni meant by G. pedata, 

 I think it may be better at present to leave their names entirely out 

 of consideration and to keep the name of Wahlenberg, as now used 

 for nearly a hundred years. 



This species has never before been recorded from any part of 

 America, and even if found by Feilden, without being recognised by 

 Hart, it may still be considered a very rare plant in Ellesmereland. 



Grew in dry, gravelly rock ledges, fruiting when found about the 

 beginning of August, 1900. 



Occurrence. East coast: Hayes Sound, leg. Feilden, Aug. 1875! 

 (This is probably the "C. alpina, Sw. (C. holostoma, Drej.)" of Hart, 

 Bot. Br. Pol. Exp., p. 38). South coast: Harbour Fjord at the Western 

 sound (2445) and together with G. capillaris at the "green patch" near 

 the anchorage (4251). 



Distribution: East and West Greenland, Alaska, Land of the 

 Chukches, mouths of the Lena and Yenissei Rivers, East Siberia, Altai, 

 Northern Russia and Finland, mountains of Northern Scandinavia, 

 Iceland. 



Carex rupestris, All. 



C. rupestris, Allioni, F1. Pedem., 1785; Ostenfeld, F1. Arct.; Lange, Consp. Fl. 

 GroenL; Kriiuse, List E. Greenl.; Greely, Rep.; Simmons, Prel. Rep. et Bot. 

 Arb.; Hooker, Fl. Bor. Amer ; Britton & Brown, III. FL; Kjellman, Fan- 

 Vest'esk. land ; Ledebouk, Fl. Ross, i Meinshausen, Gyp. Russl. ; Kjellman & 

 LuNDSTHOM, Fan. Nov. Semi.; Andersson & Hesselman, Spetsb. karlv. 

 Fig. Fl. Dan., T. 1401, 2433, 



Not having seen the specimens of Greely, I must take it for granted 

 that he has rightly determined the plant, which is probably very rare 

 in Arctic America. I found it in dry rock ledges near our second 

 winter quarters. 



