1898—1902. No. 16.] FLOW. PLANTS AND FERNS OF N..W.GREENLAND. 85 
Fig. Sv. Bot. T. 379; Fl. Dan., T. 91. 
Nartuorst (N. W. Gronl.), at first excluded this species from the list, 
notwithstanding the statements about it in the works of Hayes and Dur- 
AnD; but afterwards he inserted it, as he found ‘birches” mentioned, 
also by Kane (I Grinnell Exp., p. 143). Now indeed both these evid- 
ences are of somewhat doubtful value, but later on it has been recorded 
from our district by WeTHERILL also, and is consequently to be recko- 
ned as a citizen of the area. 
Occurrence. S. Cape York (WeTHERILL); between that point and 
Cape Dudley Digges (Kane); Port Foulke (Hayes). 
Distribution: East and West Greenland, Labrador, Hudson Bay 
region, ! Novaja Semlja, Spitsbergen, Russia, Scandinavia, Prussia, moun- 
tains of Middle Europe, Scotland, Iceland. 
Salicaceae. 
Salix arctica, PA... 
S. arctica, Simmons, Fl. Ellesm.; Ostenreip, Plantes N. E. Grénl. 
Under this name I feel myself fully justified in uniting all the 
Salices, reported from Greenland north of Melville Bay, with the sole 
exception of S. herbacea. INGLEFIELD, SUTHERLAND, Kane, Hayes, Dur- 
AND, Bessets, Hart, and Natuorst have used the name “arctica” with 
either Brown or Pattas as author. “S. Brownii’” is mentioned by 
Werueri.., “S. glauca” by Kane and Werueriut, “S. lanata” by 
Kang, “S. uva ursi” by Kane. Even without having seen the speci- 
mens thus determined, I cannot doubt that they all belong to the multi- 
form S. arctica. For particulars about the different forms and their 
synonymic, I must refer to my FI. Ellesm., p. 180—182, and to the lite- 
rature quoted there, especially LunpstR6m, Weid. Nov. Seml.; here, it 
may be enough to point out that S. wva ursi, PuRsH, is a species of 
far a more southerly distribution, found nowhere in Greenland. The same 
is the case with S. lanata, L. (with the exception of some indetermin- 
able, sterile specimens in the Copenhagen herbarium, conf. Lance, Consp. 
1 Several authors, indeed, for instance Hooker (I. c.) and J. D. Hooker, Outl. of 
Distrib, have given it a far wider range in America; but, in the northwest at 
least, B. glandulosa, Micux., has certainly been taken for it by the earlier 
botanists, who have reported B. nana, which has also been the case in several 
parts of Asia. Therefore even the statements about its distribution in LeprBour, 
l.c., are not to be indiscriminately used, even though it is not improbable, that 
the present species is spread also in Asia. 
