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cata grows—has perhaps confounded some of them. At all events, | 
dare not, without other evidence than this single specimen, give the 
species a place in the list of the North-Western Greenland flora. 
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Cyperaceae. 
Carex misandra, R. Br. 
C. misandra, Simmons, FI. Ellesm. [C. misandra, Natuorst, N. 
W. Gronl.; Werueritt, List 1894; C. atrata, Meeuan, Contr. Greenl., 
ex Hom, Contr. FI. Greenl.]. 
Curiously enough, this species has probably not been found within 
our area before NatHorst’s visit to Ivsugigsok; it has been overlooked 
even in Foulke Fjord by Hayes and Harr. It is, however, very com-— 
mon and abundant there, and in a great measure forms the sward of 
many sloopes and rockledges, or appears in large, dense tufts on the 
plains of gravel or clay. 
It is not reported from the regions north of the Humboldt Glacier 
by those collectors who have brought home plants from there, but as, 
according to Hart, Bot. Br. Pol. Exp., p. 38, it is very abundant on the 
western side of the Channels, even as far north as at Lady Franklin 
Bay and in the interior of Grinnell Land, and likewise in N. E. Green- 
land (Kruuse, List E. Greenl., p. 194), it can hardly be absent from the 
upper part of N. W. Greenland. There also exists a statement which 
points to its appearance there. Mrexan, Contr. Greenl., p. 214, speaks 
of specimens of “Carex atrata, Boorr” in the herbarium of the Aca- 
demy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, collected by Dr. Brssets at 
lat. 81—82°. Now Meeuan, as usual, has arrived at a wrong determi- 
nation of his own specimens, which belong, according to Hoim, Contr. 
FI. Greenl., p. 544, to C. misandra, and thus it seems probable that 
Bessets’ plant is the same. But there is yet another difficulty. BEssEzs, 
in his list (Exp. Pol. Amer., p. 297, and Amer. Nordpol-Exp., p. 304) 
has no other Carex but C. dioica. Now a confusion of two species so 
widely different seems quite out of the question, yet how is the state- 
ment of Meruan then to be understood? Osrenretp, Fl. Arct., p. 90, 
gives the West Greenland range of C. misandra as lat. 67°—82°, but 
quotes only Weruerit for the distribution in N. W. Greenland. I think 
the occurrence there must, for the present, be left as doubtful. 
Occurrence. S. Ivsugigsok (NaTHoRST); Inglefield Gulf: M’Cor- 
mick Bay (MzeHan), Cape Acland (Wernerit); Foulke Fjord at Rein- 
deer Point and Etah (Stein, 229, 1516, 1535). (N. Hall Land (BessEts)?). 
