appears now. Aniong these I raay especially point out the occurrence of no less 
than four species in Melville Island - two of them entirely cut off from their 
Continental area — and the appearance of O. campesfris at Ponds Bay — without 
a single locality in other parts of Baffin Land. Thus a certain interest attachés to 
the species of this genus from a geographical point of view, notvvithstanding none 
of them has reached any high northern locaHties. 
149. Oxytropis arctica, R. Br. 
O. uralensis var. arctica, Hookek, Coll., Armstrong, Narrat.; O. urnlensis, Hooker, 
App. Pakky II, Rae, Exp. 
Distribution. Banks Land: Bäring Land, M'Clure (KH, SH), Anderson 
(ex Armsteong, 1. c), Mercy Bay, Miertsching (KH); Victoria Land: Minto Inlet 
and Cambridge Bay. Anderson (KH), south coast, Rae (KH); -[Boothia Felix ?, 
John Ross (NHiM); Melville Peninsula: Repulse Bay, Parrt (ex Hookeb, App. 
Parry II), Igloohk, Edwards (NHM); Southampton Island: Cape Welsford, Hooper 
(LS)J; Melville Island, Sabine (KH), herb. Trevelyan (CH), herb. Menzies (LS). 
Geographic area. Arctic North America, especially to the west. 
I liave thought best to follow Asa Gray in using Brown'8 name for the 
plant whicli has by some authors been identified with the O. uralensis of the old 
world. But certainly Brown has had more than one species in his material as 
appears from the specimens now kept in the different herbaria. His description, 
however, seems best in accords with this. As for the localities, I may add that 
Hoopek (LS) writes about it: »found at Duke of Yorks Bay, Repulse Bay, and at 
Liddon Island», and that in Klutschak'8 list from King WiUiam Land there is 
inserted an O. arctica which may perhaps be the same as is in question here, even 
if the name may as well have been used for one of the foUowing. 
150. Oxytropis nigrescens, (Pall.) Fisch. 
Distribution. Melville Island, Beverley, M'Clintock (KH). 
Geographic area. Western arctic North America, eastern and northern 
Siberia. 
This species probably has formed part of the material for Brown's O. archca, 
as specimens from Melville Island exist. The O. nigrescens of Hooker, ColL, is 
the following species and no specimens are to be found from Banks or Victoria 
Lands, but most probably the plant must grow there also. 
151. Oxytropis arctobia, Bunge. 
O. nigrescens, Uookvm. CoW., Aemstkong, Narrat.; O. arctica var. uniflora, Hooker, App. Parry II. 
Distribution. Victoria Land: Minto Inlet and Cambridge Bay, Anderson 
(KH); King William Land: Gjöa Harbour, Hansen (CH): [Boothia Felix ?, John 
Ross (NHM); Melville Peninsula: south shore of Fury and Hecla Strait, Parry 
