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of SL Ärmerm is not present within the range of var. arctica, (Wallr.) m., but restricted 
to Europé, where the variety is only fouiid in the Saraoyede Land. 
Polemoniaceae, Juss. 
Polemonium boreale, Adams. 
Banks Land: Mercy Bay and Ballast Beaoli, 
(KH), Bäring Land, M'Clube (KH), Andeeson (ex Abmstkong, 1. c.}. 
Geographic area. Northwestern North America, Siberia, northennnost parts 
of Europé, northeastern Greenland. 
For this species which, when not eonfounded with P. c<«-«;«.». L has mostly 
been known under the name of of P. hu.iU, WiUd or P. Bunge 
B.A.n has in his monograph (Polem. in E»o.kb, PHan.enre.ch), taken up ho 
nan^e P. Unaiun,. once used by Pa..as (Reise, II., p. 33). ^"- ^'^ J]^^ 
older than any of the other names. bnt it is a nomen solum, ^e plant no be ng 
entered in the botanioal part of the .Anhang.. That an nnpubhshed figu e ex s 
which Br^nu (with a ?) refers to it, can hardly just.fy the use ot a narne that is 
not validly published. Consequently we have to go to the next name »hat of An.MS 
1817. It is published in Descr. plant. min. cogn. m sacb a 7"" '° J?^ ^^^^ 
recognisable, and consequently is to be accepted mstead of W^..uE^o. s nam 
from 1819, to which there exists, moreo.er, an older honK.nym. -T^^ J nc 
which Bha™ has used tor dividing the species in ""-^^^irSZ ^otZ 
warrant such a measure. As for the stat^ments about the / 
plant in America, they are rather incomplete, the author bemg ^^f j^™^ 
Lt as is rather often to be found in n,odern n^nographs, v. ^ ^^^1 
treatment of the distribution of the species. Indeed, .t may b q-'^^^'' ; 
use tbe records in lit^rature indiscriminatelv, but on the " ^ ' ' J ^ 
an area ought not to be excluded because . ''^^ ' ' o klw 
any specin^ens from them. For the plant bere in qnest.on H„.nd 
no american . 
such a treatment of the distribution is nearly useless, lic 
be in other respects. Final.y I may ^^^i; ^^ZZ^l^Zn ^gly 
Island, comm. Tbeve.vak. accordmg to »he labe c ^^^^^ ^^^^ 
labeled, as no Polemonium is mentioned m the »-l.lor 
as no other author has any note about its occurrence there. 
176. Phlox Biohardsonii, Hook, 
Distribution. Bank. Und: Hälla.. IW»cb. Mn:,n„cn,N. ,KH), liann, L,u,d, 
Anderson (ex Armstrong. Nnrrat.l 
Geographic area. Wt-strrn mvtu^ Nnrih America. 
■"loJalities north of Kot.ebue Sound. For pbytogeograph.ca. purposes 
