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The existence of a specimen from Melville Island is curious in so far as the 
plant in question is not mentioned in Brown's Chlor. Melv. nor by any låter author 
as occurring there. Specimens without indication of locality, collected by Fisher 
(NHM) and Ross (LS) in the second voyage of are also to be found, as even one 
of the latter from »Low Island». 
112. Draba hirta, L. 
D. rupestris, Tayloe, Pl. Baff.; D. incana, Armstrong, Narrat.; D. ardica, Macoun, App. Arctic. 
Distribution. Banks Land: Ballast Beach, Miertsching (KH), Bäring Land, 
M'Clure (KH); Victoria Land; Prince Albert Sound, Miertsching (KH), Minto 
Inlet (KH, SH) and Cambridge Bay (KH), Anderson, south coast, Rae (SH, KH); 
King William Land: Gjöa Harbour, Lindström (ex Ostenpeld, Gjöa Exp.); North 
Somerset (?): »Regents Inlet», Parry (ex Hooker, App. Parry III); [Melville Penin- 
sula: Igloolik, Parry (NHM, CH, SH), Neerlo Nakto, Parry (KH), Repulse Bay, 
HooPER (LS); Southampton Island, Edwards (NHM)]; Baffin Land: Cumberland 
Gulf, Taylor (1. c), Kumlien (Plants), Kingnait (KH), Cape Searle (KH), and Cape 
Adair, Taylor (1. c), Port Bowen (ex Hooker, App. Parry III); Melville Island, 
M'MiLLAN (ex Macoun, 1. c), (colleetor ?, KH); North Devon: Beechey Island (SH), 
east side of Wellington Channel (KH, SH), Lyall, Castle Island, Simmons (Stray 
Contr.); Ellesmereland: common, Hart, Greely, Simmons. 
Geographic area. Greenland, arctic and mountains of northern parts of 
North America, Asia, and Europé. 
There are in the KH some more specimens from the second voyage of Pakry, 
most probably from Igloolik, as Hooker in App. Parey II, p. 386, only mentions 
that locality for the var. 1 of his D. hirta, which comprises all whiteflowered Drabae 
(about 1). micropetala see below). 
Just as 1 was to write out my notes about the Drabae I received a paper 
»Nomenclature of some north-european Drabae» by Mrs Elisabeth Ekman. The 
authoress here sets forth some eiUirely new views about the northern whiteflowered 
species which have, I must confess, somewhat puzzled me. As for the name »Z). 
hirta, L.» it would appear from Mrs. Ekman's examination, that it is nearly impos- 
sible to make out what Linné has understood by it, and that it can hardly have 
reference to any scandinavian plant. But the reason for Mrs. Ekman to think that 
all subsequent authors have bad a wrong conception of the plant in question is 
her having examined »the type specimen» in the herbarium of Linné. Now this 
is found to consist of one Draba, not agreeing with the usual conception of D. 
hirta, and one Braya. It is not mentioned if other specimens exist in the herbarium, 
and that probably iraphes that it is the only one present. For my part I should 
by such a fact be led to quite another conclusion, viz., that we cannot look upon 
the specimen in question as a »type». The specimens in the Linnean herbarium 
are rather often not those from wliich the original description is made, sometimes 
