museum, and I have also succeeded fairly well in di- 
stinguishing them in the collections which I have exa- 
mined later, viz. two rich collections kindly lent me 
by Professor Juel in Uppsala and Professor Wille in 
Christiania. *) 
It has thus been easy to ascertain that the new 
Sagina (the one with the slender growth, the smaller 
flowers and capsules) is not a very rare plant in Scan- 
dinavia and other European countries, though less com- 
mon than S. saginoides , and it is limited like the latter 
to Alpine and Arctic regions. In the herbaria it is ge- 
nerally labelled »S. Linnæi Presl», less often »pro- 
cumbens » . 
Tig. 3. a Sepal and two petals from different flowers of Sagina 
saginoides (Lapland); b sepal and three petals from different flo- 
wers of Sagina procumbens X saginoides (Ben Lawers). — All X 10. 
Among the great number of specimens from Nor- 
thern Scandinavia, I met with several sheets collected 
in Nordland, at Furulund 1907, by O. E. Holmberg in 
Lund, who has named it » Sagina Linnæi X procumbens» . 
This bastard was recorded as early as 1868 (in 
August) from Bernina in Switzerland by C. Gf. Brügger, 
who has published it in Wildwachsende Pdanzenbastarde 
in der Schweiz etc. (in Jahresber. Naturforsch. Ges. 
Graubünd. II. 23 — 24, 1880 — 81, p. 47). He describes 
it in these terms (p. 71): »Vereinigt die 5-zähligen lang- 
gestielten Blüthen der ersteren mit dem Wuchs der 
!) Herbarium specimens in an early flowering state without 
oapsules and very poor samples are often doubtful and must be 
passed over. 
