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49. -E. angustifolium . 



Frequent in the temperate and warmer parts of Europe 

 (where, indeed, it is not peculiar to the alpine districts), as 

 well as in the northern and arctic regions ; Siberia (Gmelin) ; 

 frequent, too, in mountain meadows generally in North Ame- 

 rica, in the woody country from latitude 54° to 64° north ; on 

 the shores of the Arctic Sea (Richardson), and adjacent islands. 



GRAM IN EM. 



31. Alopecurus. 



50. A. alpinus. 



This species was first detected in Scotland, upon Loch-na- 

 Gare, a high mountain in Aberdeenshire, by Robert Brown, 

 Esq., in 1794 : afterwards found in Greenland by Giesecke, 

 who named it A. antarcticus in Brewster's Cyclopedia, accord- 

 ing to Brown ; while Hornemann called it A . ovatus in Flora 

 Danica. It has been discovered likewise in Melville Island, 

 Baffin's Bay, shores of the Arctic Sea, America (RicAarc?sow); 

 and in Igloolik, &c. {Captain Parry). 



32. PoA. 



51. P. angustata. Br. in Parry's 1st Voy. App. p. cclxxxvii. 



Hitherto this grass had only been found in Melville Island 

 and at Igloolik. 



52. P. arctica. Br. in Parry's 1st Voy. App. p. cclxxxviii. 



Inhabits Baffin's Bay, Melville Island, Igloolik, and the east 

 coast of West Greenland. 



53. P. laxa. 



a. panicula angustata gracili, spiculis paucioribus. 



3 D 2 P. laxa. 



