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V 33. Arctagrostis latifolia (R. Br ) Griseb. 



ht bogs and vigorous heath, scarce on gravel in riverbeds. 

 A decided northern type, the soutbmosi oecurrenee of wbieb 

 is to be settled within the area. 



Disko: The northland liere and there; the southmost locality is on the 

 Southern side of Nordfjord about 69°55' (P.). — Hart 1. c. p. 304 states the range 

 ol' the species to lie between 69°14' and 81°51'. The first mentioned latitude 

 corresponds to that of Godhavn, but as I have not been able to re-find the easily 

 recognizable species here during a stay of 12 years, I am inchned to consider the 

 record as erroneous. — Hare (P.); Nugssuaq, the Interiør (P.); and along the 

 coast of Waygat; the southmost localities here are Atanikerdluk (Th. Fr.) and Sar- 

 qaq about 70° (V.); Eqe, at the edge of the inland ice at a height of 700 m is the 

 Southern limit of the species (69°44'). 



Abundantly flowering and friiiting. 

 Covered by snow during winter. 



i 34. Calaniogrostis purpurascens H. Br. 



In sandy and gravelly localities in riverbeds and deltas, on rock- 

 ledges and in crevices; rare in heath. 



Disko: Rather common on the northland especially on Ihe coast of Waygat 

 and in the adjacent valleys as well as in the interior; at Mudderbugt, in the sand- 

 stone-domain. Diskofjord: at Ikineq, on gneiss-rocks and gravel. Otherwise not 

 observed on the southland (P.). 



Hare (P.). 



Mainland: Common in the sandstone-domain of the coast of Nugssuaq (P.), 

 and knov^^n from numerous localities between Torssukatak and the Sydostbugt 

 (P.). South of Disko-Bay it seems to be perceptibly scarcer and mostly to occur 

 at some distance from the out-coast. The rapids of Arfersiorfik (K.). N. Strømfjord: 

 Sarfarssuaq (P. & E.) and the vicinity of the fjord-arm of ['gssuit, common (P.&: E.) ; 

 N. Isortoq 70°10' (V.); Ikertoq Fjord (V.); Itivneq 66°58' (W. &■ H., P. & E.); Sar- 

 fånguaq 66°5.5' (W. &• H.); S. Strømfjord 66°35' (Jens.). 



This species has formerly been included among the southern types 

 by me (Medd. om Grønld. 50 p. 386), but 1 now doubt the correctness 

 of this statement. 



South of the territory treated of here it has been found a few times 

 in West Greenland down to ca. 61" (in H. H. I have not seen specimens 

 from localities south of 64°!), but there is, in faet, nothing strange in 

 the occurence a plant of a high-arctic range to the south of its con- 

 tinual distribution, for instance on the bilis whence they occasionally 

 are washed down in the lowland. 14ie southern limit there fore will al- 

 ways be less distinct than the northern. 



But according to iny observations in the regions around Disko- 

 Bay and northwards (made after the publishing of the above menti- 

 oned paper) the species occurs more frequently northwards, and on 



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