Soinerset: Port Keniiedy, Walker (ex Hooker, Exp. Fox); [Melville Peniusula: 
Igloolik, Paret, Edwards (NHM, CH), Duckett Cove, Parry (NHM, CH), Repulse 
Bay, Parry (CH), Hooper (LS); Southampton Island: Duke of Yorks Bay, Parry 
(CH). HoopER (LS); Nottingham Island, Bell (KH)]; Baffin Land: Cumberland Gulf 
(NHM, KH), common, Taylor (1. c), Giese, Kivitung, Boas (ex Ambronn, L c), 
KuMLiEN (Plants), Signuia, Schuchert & White (ex Holm, 1. c), Ponds Bay, Borden 
(ex Macodn, App. Neptune); Melville Island, J. C. Ross, Beverley, Edwards, Parry 
(NHM), herb Trevelyan (KH), herb. Menzies (LS), Winter Harbour (NHM); Corn- 
wallis Island: Assistance Bay, Kate Austin Lake, Sutherland (KH); North Devon : 
Powell Creek, Lyall (KH), Cumiug Creek, Borden (ex Macoun, App. Neptune), 
»WeUington Channel», Lyall (ex Hooker, CoU.); EUesmereland : common, Hart, 
Greely, Simmons. 
Geographic area. Greenland, northern parts of North America, arctic and 
temperate Asia, Europé. 
Both this and the preceeding species are among those which Hooper in his 
collection has noted as commonly distributed in the Melville Peninsula and adjacent 
regions, and they may be looked upon as some of the species raost often met 
with everywhere in the Arctic Islands. For my part I do not believe in the existence 
of inore than one manyspiked species within that area, but i freely admit that 
there may be some difiiculty about applying the characters taken from european 
specimens to some of the arctic ones, as already Rob. Brown pointed out (1. c, 
p. 26). If any other should occur, it must be E. gracile, Koch (which should, 
however, as far as I can make out, bear the na me E. angustifolium, Roth, as I 
have discussed in my Flora Ellesm., p. 151). E. latifolium, Hoppe, to which Clakke 
in lal)els in the herbaria has referred one specimen collected by Feilden at Shift 
Rudder Bay in northern EUesmereland and another of Bekchey from Kotzebue 
Sound in Alaska, is no american plant at all and rightly excluded by Fernald, 
Geay's Manual, p. 196. 
? Eriophorum gracile, Koch. 
Distribution. [Southampton Island: Duke of Yorks Bav, Parby (ex Hooker, App. 
Parry II)]. 
Geographic area. Northern North America, temperate Asia, and Europé. 
been overlooked by Ostenfei.d who does not refer to it in Flora Aret. As there are no specimens 
in the London coUecMons to verify the ntateinent, I do not, however, put much faith in it, and at 
all eventti the species in (jucstion is not fouiKi in the Arctic Archipelago proper. 
42. Oobresia Bellardi, (All.) Degland. 
Elyna Bellardi, Simmons, Flora Ellesm.; E. .^picata, Hooker, Coll., Aemstrong, Narrat., Greely, Rep. 
Distribution. Victoria Land: Minto Inlet, Anderson (KH) ; EUesmereland: 
Discovery Harbour, Greely, Fort Juliane, and tolerably common along the southern 
coast, Simmons. 
