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Occurrence. North coast: Floeberg Beach (Hart). Grinnell Land: 

 Discovery Harbour (Hart), Cape Frazer (Hayes). Hayes Sound region, 

 common, specimens form : Beitstad Fjord (489), Skriihng Island (1362), 

 Cape Rutherford (311, 1150), Fram Harbour (1106), Cocked Hat Island 

 (1263), Bedford Pim Island (273, 1186, 1260). South coasi; common, 

 specimens from: Fram Fjord (1605, 1669); Harbour Fjord (1862, 2152, 

 2444, 2587, 3999), Goose Fjord (2877, 3501, 3642). West coast: Nord- 

 slrand (2111, leg. Fosheim), between Eidsfjord and Baumann Fjord, 

 Coal Bay. 



Var. supi'na, (Schur) Hackel. 



F. supina, Schlb, Enuin. pi. Trans., 1866; F. ovina *euovina var. supina, Hackel, 

 I.e.; Kruuse, Jan May. 



My specimens which may be taken to belong to the sub-variety 

 grandiflora of Hackel, are distinguished by their short, generally pros- 

 trate culm, which often does not reach over the leaves of the shoots; 

 by few-spiked panicles, coarse violet or purple spikelets, and by coarser 

 leaves than in the preceding form to which, however, it is allied by 

 intermediate forms. In Ellesmereland it is not proliferous as is often 

 elsewhere the case. I think that its manner of growth, in looser tufts 

 with the radiating, prostrate, short culms, is directly due to the habitat. 

 It grows in gravel- or clay-plains, where it will often be buried at the 

 time when the snow melts. It seems also to be very late in flowering. 



Occurrence. South coast, in the plains at the interior of the 

 fjords: Fram Fjord (1637), South Cape Fjord (2062), Muskox Fjord 

 (2147); Goose Fjord, valley at the bottom (3263), east of 3rd quarters 

 (3437, 3486), Midday Knoll (4235). 



Distribution (main species and forms): all over the Arctic Regions 

 (except Franz Joseph Land ?), in America at least down to Winipeg, 

 New Jersey, Colorado and California, in Asia down to the Himalayas, 

 over the whole of Europe. The var. brevifoUa has principially an 

 arctic distribution: East and West Greenland. Arctic American Archipel- 

 ago, Arctic America, Spitsbergen, but in America it goes down also 

 to the Rocky Mountains and the Wahsatch Mountains in Utah. The 

 var. supina is most spread in the alpine region of southern mountains 

 but is also recorded from Greenland, Novaja Semlja, Spitsbergen and 

 Jan May en. 



