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<mods:title>New vascular plant records for the Canadian Arctic Archipelago</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Gillespie, Lynn J.</mods:namePart>
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<paragraph pageId="33" pageNumber="56">Common name.</paragraph>
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saxifrage
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<paragraph pageId="33" pageNumber="56">Distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="33" pageNumber="56">Amphi-Beringia</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="56">Comments</emphasis>
: Collected on Bathurst Island by S. Edlund in 1975, this is only the second collection of this species from the CAA, and the first record from Nunavut. 
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collection was shelved in the backlog of the National Herbarium of Canada for nearly 40 years, and was only recently uncovered. However, its significance as a new record was noted on the newsprint accompanying the specimen, indicating its importance was apparent to the collector.
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Though long known from the alpine tundra of northern Yukon and Alaska (
<bibRefCitation author="Cody, WJ" journalOrPublisher="NRC Research Press, Ottawa" pageId="36" pageNumber="59" pagination="1 - 669" refId="B22" refString="Cody, WJ, 2000. Flora of the Yukon Territory. NRC Research Press, Ottawa: 1 - 669" title="Flora of the Yukon Territory" year="2000">Cody 2000</bibRefCitation>
), the 1968 collection on Prince Patrick Island (mapped in 
<bibRefCitation author="Porsild, AE" journalOrPublisher="National Museum of Natural Sciences, National Museums of Canada, Ottawa" pageId="40" pageNumber="63" pagination="1 - 667" refId="B76" refString="Porsild, AE, Cody, WJ, 1980. Vascular Plants of the Continental Northwest Territories, Canada. National Museum of Natural Sciences, National Museums of Canada, Ottawa: 1 - 667" title="Vascular Plants of the Continental Northwest Territories, Canada" year="1980">Porsild and Cody 1980</bibRefCitation>
and 
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)-the first record for the Arctic Islands-extended the range of this species northeastwards by over 1000 km. The second collection on Bathurst Island pushes this species a further 500 km east in the CAA. The apparent gaps in this species distribution may be explained by its habit: when not in flower, it can resemble either the very common 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="56">Saxifraga oppositifolia</emphasis>
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L. or a lichen (
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); either scenario could account for the paucity of collections from the CAA.
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<paragraph pageId="33" pageNumber="56">Specimens examined.</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="56">Canada. Northwest Territories</emphasis>
: Inuvik Region, Prince Patrick Island, Green Bay, gravelly slopes with northern exposure, 
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, 
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, 7 July 1968, 
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(CAN-385465). 
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: Qikiqtaaluk Region, Bathurst Island, Bracebridge Inlet, GSC [Geological Survey of Canada] Site, 
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, 
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, 1 July 1975, 
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(CAN-605793).
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