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northwards to Labrador. Further, it is found in a number of places in 
Greenland, on the east coast only at Ikerasarsuk in the far south, and 
on the west coast principally in the southern districts as far as to about 
644/,° N. (Baals Revier, leg. Vani). Further north it is recorded from 
three stations, Sukkertoppen (about 651/,°, leg. Kang), Egedesminde (about 
681/.°, leg. Sorensen) and Upernivik (about 73°, leg. Kane). 
The statements of Duranp about Kanr’s plant are, as previously 
pointed out by several authors, and as I myself have had an opport- 
unity of showing, not to be trusted overmuch; and so we get, even 
reckoning from Egedesminde, an extension of about 9° northward of the 
area of the species. In the Arctic Archipelago A. groenlandica is not 
found; Harvr’s statement of it for Northern Ellesmereland is a mistake, 
as I have ascertained at Kew (Simmons, Fl. Ellesm., p. 117), and the 
same is almost certainly the case with Greety’s plant under the same 
name (Rep. II, p. 18). 
It is rather difficult to form any opinion, as to what MegHan’s plant 
really is, perhaps Alsine verna, (L.) WaHLens., as this common species 
is lacking in his list. 
Alsine verna, (L.) WAHLENB. 
A. verna, Simmons, F], Ellesm.; [.4. verna. OsTenretp, FI. pl. Cape 
York; A. rubella, Duranp, Enum. pl. Smith S.; Natuorst, N. W. 
Groénl.; Arenaria verna, Werneritt, List 1894; 4. rubella, Hart, Bot. 
Br. Pol. Exp.]. 
This is doubtless a common species, even though not collected in 
all the places visited by the different expeditions or by all collectors. 
Generally my specimens represent the variety rubella (WAHLENB.), as is 
the case also in Ellesmereland. The Arenaria arctica in the list of 
Hayes (Op. Pol. Sea), doubtless belongs here, as Duranp has instead of 
it the name A. rubella var. hirta, Vauu. 
Occurrence. S. Ivsugigsok (NatHorst); Wolstenholme Sound: 
Umanak and Saunders Island (Batter); Inglefield Gulf: Netlik (Hayes), 
Fan Glacier (WeruerILL): Foulke Fjord (Harr), at Reindeer Point (243, 
1495). 
Cerastium alpinum, L. 
C. alpinum, Simmons, Fl. Ellesm.; Osrenreto, Plantes N. E. Grénl. 
[C. alpinum, SuTHertanp, Voyage; Dickie, Not. fl. pl., in INGLEFIELD, 
Summer Search; Duranp, Pl. Kan. et Enum. pl. Smith S. (incl. var.); 
Hart, Bot. Br. Pol. Exp.; Bessets, Amer. Nordpol-Exp.; Natuorst, N. 
