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Cassiope tetragona, (L.) D. Don. 
C. tetragona, Simmons, FI. Ellesm.; Ostenretp, Plantes N. E. Gronl. 
[C. tetragona, Hart, Bot. Br. Pol. Exp.; Natuorst, N. W. Grénl.; Wetu- 
ERILL, List 1894; OsTENFELD, FI. pl. Cape York; Andromeda tetragona, 
Duranp, Pl. Kan. et Enum. pl. Smith Sj]. 
This plant seems to take as prominent a place in the vegetation on 
the Greenland side as it does on the western side of Smith Sound. 
Occurrence. S. Bushnan Island (SurTHERLAND); Cape York (Hart, 
WetueRILL); between there and Cape Dudley Digges (Kane); Ivsugigsok 
(Natuorst); Umanak and Agpa in Wolstenholme Sound (Battg); Gran- 
ville Bay (My.ius Ericusen); Inglefield Gulf: Northumberland Island 
(Stein), Cape Acland, Bowdoin Bay and Robertson Bay (WETHERILL); 
Port Foulke (Hayes); Foulke Fjord (Hart), abundant at Reindeer Point 
and Etah (Stern, 252); Fog Inlet, Bedevilled Reach and Rensselaer Bay 
(Kane). 
Loiseleuria procumbens, (L.) Desv. 
This plant has been recorded by Kang, I Grinnell Exp., p. 143, 
from a place between Cape York and Cape Dudley Digges and later was 
entered in Natuorst, Nachtr. Now as the plant is found north of 74° 
in Danish Greenland it would seem very probable that it also grew here, 
but it is not mentioned in Duranp, Pl. Kan., and Kane himself men- 
lions it in such a way, as to make it very doubtful whether he, who 
was not much of a botanist, had not perhaps quite another plant in 
front of him. The lines in question run thus:— “.... the wild honey- 
suckle (Azalea procumbens) of our Pennsylvania woods—I could stick 
the entire plant in my button-hole”. Now the name “honeysuckle” is 
used not only for the species of Lonicera of which several grow in the 
woods of Pennsylvania, but also for Azalea, but hardly 1 think for A. 
(Loiseleuria) procumbens, a plant moreover which is not found further 
south in the Eastern States than on the summits of the White Moun- 
tains of New Hampshire and of course not as a common plant in woods. 
Were I to venture a guess at the plant Kane has seen, I should 
be most inclined to think of Rhododendron lapponicum, which has 
since that time been found in the same neighbourhood; but at all events 
the statement of Kane must be left entirely out of consideration. 
Rhododendron lapponicum, (L.) WAHLENB. 
Azalea lapponica, Linnagus, Sp. Plant., 1753; Rh. lapponicum, 
WantenserG, Fl. Lapp.; Lance, Consp. Fl. Groenl.; Kruuse, List E. 
