106 H. G. SIMMONS. [SEC. ARCT. EXP. FRAM 



quite another plant, which should be called A. caespitosa var. brevi folia, 

 (MARSCH. v. BIEB.) HARTM.. of which it represents a small and stunted 

 form. 



Occurrence. S. Ivsugigsok (NATHORST). 



Agrostis canina, L. 



The .4. canina $ melaleuca, BONG., of DURAND, PI. Kan., which i> 

 said to have heen collected at Smith Sound as well as at Sukkertoppen, 

 is decidedly a very doubtful plant. No other collector has found the 

 variety in Greenland, and the species is restricted to the southernmost 

 part of Danish Greenland between lat. 60 and 61. I feel, therefore, 

 fully justified in excluding it from the list. 



Arctagrostis latifolia, (R. BR.) GRISEB. 



A. laiifolia, SIMMONS, Fl. Ellesm. [A latifolia, WETHERILL, List 

 1894: Colpodium lati folium, NATHORST, N. W. Gronl.]. 



Often sterile and thus easily overlooked, as I too did during my 

 first visit to Foulke Fjord. When I went there again in 1899 and 

 turned my attention to finding it, I saw it in many places along brooks, 

 in moist depressions, etc. I therefore think that it is far more common 

 throughout the area than appears from the few records of it. 



Occurrence. S. Ivsugigsok (NATHORST); Inglefield Gulf: Gape Ac- 

 land (WKTHERILL); Foulke Fjord at Reindeer Point and Etah (1464, 1513). 



Alopecurus alpinus, SM. 



A. alpinus, SIMMONS, Fl. Ellesm.; OSTENFELD, Plantes N. E. Gronl. 

 [A. alpinus, SUTHERLAND, Voyage; DICKIE, Not. fl. pi., in INGLEFIELD, 

 Summer Search; DURAND, PI. Kan. et Enum. pi. Smith S. ; BESSELS, 

 Exp. Pol. Amer. et Amer. Nordpol-Exp. ; HART, Bot. Br. Pol. Exp. ; NAT- 

 HORST, N. W. Gronl.; WKTHERILL, List 1894]. 



Common everywhere in the most different situations, immediately 

 catching the eye and so easily identified, that it has got a place in the 

 list of every collector, always under its right name. I may, however, 

 give a list of the places from whence it is mentioned in literature. 



Occurrence. S. Bushnan Island (SUTHERLAND); Cape York (]!ART. 

 \Yr i in .1:11.1., SII;IN); l\>ui;igs<)k (NATHORST) ; Wolslenholme Sound: Dal- 

 rymplr I lock (\VETHERII.L); Inglefield Gulf: Whale Sound, Burdin Bay 

 (I.Mii i i 11 .1.1. i. Xeliulumi (\\'KTIIKRILL). Hakluyl Island (KANE), Norhum- 



