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even probable, that the latter plant may hide under some of the state- 
ments about P. pulchella and P. nivea. At all events P. pulchella 
seems to be rather a rare plant in N. W. Greenland. Besides my own 
specimens which represent a form from rather dry localities and which 
somewhat resemble the corresponding form of P. rubricaulis, I have 
only seen specimens collected by Narxorst (also nearly approaching 
P.rubricaulis) and by Hart. The P. pulchella of Duranp, Enum. pl., 
according to the description must be P. rubricaulis, and the same per- 
haps is the case with the Port Foulke plant of Haves. 
Occurrence. S. Ivsugigsok (NaTHorst); Port Foulke (Hayes,?); 
Foulke Fjord, on a sandy beach near Reindeer Point (1529). 
Potentilla rubricaulis, Len. 
P. rubricaulis, Simmons, Fl. Ellesm.; Wotr, Mon. Gatt. Potent. 
[P. rubricaulis, OstENFeLp, F'. pl. Cape York; P. nivea var., Natuorst, 
N. W. Gronl.; Hart, Bot. Br. Pol. Exp., ex p.?; P. pulchella, Durann, 
Pl. Kan. ?]. 
This species is probably more common in our area than is the 
preceding one, but as already mentioned, it has always been overlooked 
and confounded with others. At Etah it was not rare in the grassy 
and gravelly slopes. I am very much inclined to think that the P. pul- 
chella of Duran is really the present species. His description clearly 
shows that he has not had the real P. pulchella in front of him for 
he says: “Flower rather large, of a deep yellow colour; petals obcord- 
ate, longer than the calyx”. ' 
Occurrence. S. Ivsugigsok (NatHorst); Umanak and Agpa in 
Wolstenholme Sound (Batxe); Etah in Foulke Fjord (221, 1461, 1882); 
Rensselaer Bay and Mary Minturn River ? (KANE). 
Potentilla anserina, L. 
As previously mentioned (Simmons, Fl. Ellesm., p. 54), there are no 
specimens to confirm Hart's statement (Bot. Br. Pol. Exp., p. 29) about 
the occurrence of this species at Foulke Fjord, and as it has not been 
found so far north by other collectors, it must be excluded from the 
flora of our area. 
Potentilla nivea, L. 
P. nivea, Linnagus, Sp. Plant., 1753; Leymann, Revis. Potent.; Ryp- 
BERG, Mon. Amer. Potent.; Wor, Mon. Gatt. Potent.; Lanes, Consp. FI. 
