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many localities in southern Ellesmereland and a specimen from Hayes 

 Sound was also found hiding among C. nardina. It prefers the same 

 localities as C. nardina, dry gravelly slopes, dry rock-ledges and clefts 

 of the rock. Flowered late. 



Occurrence. Grinnell Land : Discovery Harbour (Greely). Hayes 

 Sound: "Fort Juhane" (676); probably spread. South coast: Fram Fjord 

 in several places (1607, 1664); Harbour Fjord, Big Valley, Spade Point, 

 Lake Valley (2539), "green patch" (2236, 3995), Barren Valhes, Western 

 sound. Sir Inglis Peak; Goose Fjord, at 4th winter quarters (3790). 



Distribution: Northern East Greenland, West Greenland, (not 

 hitherto found elsewhere in the Arctic American Archipelago), Arctic 

 America, Rocky Mountains to Colorado, Alaska, St. Lawrence Island, 

 East Siberia, mountains of Central Asia, Caucasus, Northern Europe, 

 Central and Southern European mountains, Iceland. 



Eriophorum Scheuchzeri, Hoppe. 



E. Schmchseri, Hoppe, Arten d. Wollgr., 1800; Ostenfeld, FL Arct.; Lange, Consp. 

 FL GroenL; Kruuse, List E. Greenl.; Nathorst, N. W. Gr6nl.; Britton & 

 Brown, 111. Fl.; Kjellman, in Vegaexp.; Ledebour, F1. Ross.; Feilden, F1. pi. 

 Nov. Zeml.; Andersson & Hesselman, Spetsb. karlv.; E. capitatum, Host, 

 Ic. descr. gram. Austr.; Hart, Bot. Br. Pol. Exp.; Hooker, Fl. Bor. Amer.; 

 E. cap. var. Schmchseri, Hart, 1. c; E. vaginatum, Hart, 1. c; et alii, non 

 Linnaeus. 



Fig. Sv. Eot., T. 426; Fl. Dan., T. 1502. 



A confusion between this species and E. vaginatum seems to have 

 arisen rather often, and the latter has thus been reported from many 

 places, where really E. Scheuchzeri alone grows. As far as I can 

 judge, Novaja Semlja and some places on the North coast of Asia, per- 

 haps also inside Bering Straits on the American side, are the only true 

 arctic stations where E. vaginatum is really found. Indeed I have not 

 had any opportunity of revising the specimens from the Kane and Hayes 

 expedition referred by Durand to E. vaginatum, but as Hart, who has 

 also recorded that species has in fact collected only E. Scheuchzeri, 

 as I have seen in the London collections, I do not hesitate to refer the 

 plant from Gale Point (Durand, Enum. pi. Smith S., p. 95) to the last- 

 mentioned species, as also all which is recorded as E. vaginatum from 

 Greenland (cf. Simmons, Dan. Greenl. pi, p. 473). 



I think the error is in great part due to the indications in literature 

 about the sheaths of the culm, which are said to be inflated in E. va- 

 ginatum but not in E. Scheuchzeri; as a fact also the latter has 



