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Fk;. 118. Phippsia algida (Solaiid.) E. Br.; Hritton and 

 Brown, III. Fl., 1 : 150. I'liii'i-siA.— A low, tufted, glabrous peren- 

 nial 2 to 10 cm. high, with narrow, soft, and Hat leaves and con- 

 tracted, sini])le panicles. — Arctic North Aiueriia and on the highest 

 mountain peaks of Colorado. [Greenland, arctic Europe, and 

 Asia.] July, August. 



