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



This seems to be a rare species in N. W. Greenland, as it is only 

 collected by BALLE (()STENFELD, Fl. pi. Cape York) and myself (for the 

 G. atKjuxtnta of NATIIORST from Ivsugigsok see SIMMONS, 1. c., p. 157, 

 and under the next species). It grew on the gravelly beach near Rein- 

 deer Point, rather sparingly. 



Occurrence. S. Wolstenholme Sound: Agpa (Saunders Islandi 

 and L'manak I BALLE): Foulke Fjord near Reindeer Point (1527). 



Glyceria distans. (L.) WAHLENB. 



G. distans, SIMMONS, Fl. Ellesm. [G. distans, OSTENFELD. Fl. pi. 

 Cape York ; G. angustata, NATHORST, N. \V. Gronl.l. 



Probably this species is quite as common as in Ellesmereland, but 

 most collectors have left the grasses unnoticed and consequently only a 

 few statements about them exist in the literature about N. W. Green- 

 land. At Foulke Fjord it grew abundantly in the rich soil of the old 

 Eskimo village of Etah. The form I found there was var. arctica, (HooK.) 

 GELERT, which is already reported from another point in that neighbour- 

 hood by DURAND, Enum. pi. Smith S. I have ascertained in the arctic 

 herbarium of the Stockholm museum that the G. angustata of NAT- 

 HORST, 1. c., is the other variety vayinata, (LANGE) GELERT. 



Occurrence. S. Ivsugigsok (NATHORST); Wolstenholme Sound: 

 .\L r pa and Umanak (BALLE); Foulke Fjord: Port Foulke (HAYES) and 

 Etah (236). 



Glyceria maritima, (Hues.) WAHLB. 

 var. reptans, (HARTM.) SIMM. 



G. marit. var. reptans, SIMMONS, Fl. Ellesm. [G. vilfoidea, NAT- 

 HORST, N. W. Gronl.j. 



As I have previously mentioned (I. c., p. 100) my Foulke Fjord 

 -pccimens of this plant are somewhat different from those of Ellesmere- 

 land. They are considerably stouter, have longer leaves, and not such 

 long-creeping and densely radicant stolons. This may be accounted for 

 by Ihi- habitat, which was rather different from the usual, somewhat 

 loamy, beach localities of the plant. Here it grew in fissures and de- 

 pressions of the rocks, near the beach on Reindeer Point, that is to say 

 in more sheltered places than on the open shore. That may also, I think, 

 account for (he fact that the plant had here produced a few inflores- 

 cences, while it was always found sterile in Ellesmereland. These pan- 

 icles, which on account probably of the dry situation, were already 



