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149. A. PRATENsis L. var. alpestris Wahlenb. Waigats. 



150. AiRA c^spiTOSABeauv. With its YSi,YS. a I pinasmd brevi folia 

 is widely distributed over Waigats, Novaya Zemlya, and Lutke 

 Land. I found it not uncommon on the Pachtussow Islands. 



151. Calamagrostis neglecta Gaertn. Common along the 

 south shore of Waigats. I gathered it again in Pomorsky Bay, 

 Matyushin Shar. Mr. Burkill writes :—" With regard to the 

 Calamagrostis, I have come to the following conclusions : that 

 habit and acuteness of the glumes are the characters on which 

 mainly to rely. I cannot separate Calamagrostis Holmii specifically 

 from C. ?z^^/6cirt, and should place the arctic forms as follows: — 

 C. neglecta [Deyeuxia neglecta Kunth). The type is the well-known 

 plant of North-western and Central Europe and Siberia. It is a plant 

 from two to three feet high. Var. borealis Laestad., Lange, Co7ispectus 

 Fl. Groetilandica;, p. 161 : a low plant with acute glumes. Var. Holmii 

 {Calamagrostis Holmii Lange) : of the same habit as the last, but 

 perhaps more densely tufted, differing chiefly in its somewhat 

 acuminate glumes. This last we have from Spitsbergen, Axel 

 Island (A. Trevor-Battye). The character which Lange drew 

 from the position of the awn becomes useless, for, though in his 

 type it is situate above the middle of the glume, in your specimens, 

 which I am now quite satisfied are identical, it is sometimes at the 

 middle, but more often below it." On the other hand, I submitted 

 specimens from Waigats to Mr. Th. Holm, and he writes me from 

 Washington, U.S.A., that he does not hesitate to identify the 

 plant as G. Holmii. He remarks that the details of the spikelet 

 and the characteristic coloration of the empty glumes in C. Holmii 

 are also present in the specimen sent by me. C. Holmii as described 

 by Lange was obtained originally by Mr. Holm on the mainland of 

 Yugor Straits. 



152. Trisetum subspicatum Beauv. Waigats, South Goose 

 Land, Besemannya Bay, south shores of Matyushin Shar. 



153. DupoNTiA FiscHERi R. Br. A widely distributed grass; com- 

 mon on Dolgoi Island, around Habarova, Waigats, Novaya Zemlya, 

 and Lutke Land. 



154. CoLPODiuM LATiFOLiuM R. Br. A Avidely distributed plant. 

 Habarova, Waigats, Novaya Zemlya, and Lutke Land. 



155. Phippsia ALGmA Br. and var. P. concinna Fries. There is a 

 large series of this grass in my collection, all in flower, from 

 \Vaigats, Novaya Zemlya, and Lutke Land, varying from a plant 

 nine inches in height to a dwarf form of less than an inch. The 

 tallest examples, var. cnncinna, come from Cape Matiusela, Waigats, 

 the more dwarf from Lutke Land. It is not uncommon on the 

 Pachtussow Islands and Ziwolka Fiord. 



156. Pleuropogon Sabinh R. Br. The known distribution of this 

 grass is very remarkable. So far it has not been met with on the 

 mainlands of the Old or New Worlds, but is confined to the islands 

 of the polar and arctic regions and Greenland. First discovered by 

 Sabine on Melville Island, 1819 ; it was subsequently met with by 



