is 
Walkee (ex HooKER, Exp. Fox), Fury Beach, Markham (KH), »Regents Inlet^ 
Pakky (ex HooKEE, App Parry III); [Melville Peninsula: interiör, Rae (Exp.), 
Igloolik (CH), Neerlo Nakto (CII), Duckett Cove (NHM, CH), Parry; Southampton 
Island: Duke of Yorks Bay, Parry (CH), Cape Welsford, Hoofer (LS); Nottingliam 
Island, Bell (NHM)]; Baffin Land: Tern Island, Parry (CH), Big Island and White 
Strait, Tarr (ex Rowlee & Wiegand, Cornell list). Cumberland Gulf, Kumlien 
(Plants). Giese, Boas (ex Ambronn, Kingua), Cape Searle, Taylok (KH, NHM), 
Kivitung, Boas (ex Amkronn, L o.), Signuia, Schuchert and White (ex Holm, Cat.), 
Button Point, Sutherland (Journ., II, p. 323), Ponds Bay, Lyall (KH), Borden (ex 
Macoun, App. Neptune), Port Bowen, Parey (NHM); Melville Island, J, C. Ross 
(NHM), M'Clintock (KH), herb. Menzies (LS), M'Millan (ex Macoun, App. Arctic); 
Lowther Island, M'CLrNTocK (ex Markham, Life); Cornwallis Island : Assistance Bay, 
Sutherland (KH); Ellef Ringnes Island, Isachsen (ex Simmons, Stray Contr.); North 
Devon: Cape Riley, M'Clintock (ex Markham, Life), Beechey Island, Lyall (KH, 
8H), Pullen (SH), »Wellington Cbannell», Lyall (KH, SH), Northumberland 
Sound, Lyall (KH), Mount Belcher, Cape Hawes, Cape Vera. West Fjord, Simmons 
(1. c); Castle Island, Simmons (1. c); North Kent, Simmons (1. c); Heiberg Island: 
Hyperite Point, and Big Island in Heureka Sound, Schei (ex Simmons, I. c); Elles- 
mereland: very connnon, Haht, Feilden, Wetherill, Isachsen, Simmons, Bahtlett 
(CH); Wolf and Goodskll (ex Rydberg, List Peary). 
Geographic area. Greenland, northern parts and mountains of North 
America, A sia, and Europé. 
Besides the specimens enumerated above I have seen some eollected by Fisher 
(NHM) and J. C. Ross (LS) in the second expedition of Parry, and one from J. 
C. Ross' voyage in 1848-49 (NHM), wldch is most probably taken at Port Leopold 
ni North Somerset. C. alpinum as several authors have pointed out is a very 
variable plant in the Arctic Islands. 
85. Oerastium Fischerianum, Ser. 
Distribution. Victoria Land: Minto Inlet (SH) and Cambridge Bay (KH), 
Anderson. 
Geographic area. Northvve-stern parts of North Ainerica. 
OsTKNFKi,D has in Gjöa Exp. undertaken the very difficult task to extricate 
the synonymics of soine arctic and subarctic Cerasiia, and he has given so convin- 
cing arguments for liis opinion about them, that I can entirely agree with him hut 
for a singie point, viz., the placing of the plant here in question as a mere variety 
of C. alpinum. He also expresses a coniecture that it will some time be looked 
upon as separate species. Now it has originally been described as such, and is, 
m my opinion, to be kept so, the differences from the true C. alpinum being 
quite as distinct as in the case of C. Edmondstomi, (Wats.) Murb. å Ostenf. Its 
centre of dispersion most probably is to seek in the Bering Sea region, where it 
