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loving species of birds. On the mainland tundra around Habarova 

 very common ; shallow meres and ponds scattered over the tundra 

 are in July given a lively verdant green colour from the dense beds 

 of this grass, and looking over the dull grey tundra from some slight 

 elevation these bands and circles of green look like oases in the 

 desert, and are quite a relief to the eye tired of gazing on a sad 

 brown landscape. Common all over Waigats from Cape Greben to 

 Dolga Bay ; common at Pomorsky Bay, south side of the Matyushin 

 Shar, but I did not come across it in Lutke Land. With reference 

 to the nomenclature of this plant, I add the following note from 

 Mr. I. H. Burkill, from which it appears that the Arctophila, so 

 abundant on the Arctic Russian tundras, Waigats, Dolgoi, and 

 likewise in Novaya Zemlya, is, in his opinion, A. fulva Nym. :— 

 ''Arctophila effusa Lange twice figured in the Flora Danica (tab. 

 2343 and tab. Suppl. 126), is not the common Arctic European 

 plant which has sometimes passed with this name. The European 

 plant, A. fulva Nym., does not deserve the name of ejfusa at all, and 

 IS fairly easily distinguished from the Greenland form in the greater 

 density of its panicle. It also occurs in North America. At Kew 

 we have your grass as A. fulva, collected by Kriwoscheja, and 

 named as A. effusa, collected by Kjellman and Lundstrom." 



160. PoA PRATENsis L. Thcro are specimens in the collection 

 from Waigats, and likewise from Ziwolka Fiord, Lutke Land. 



161. P. ABBREviATA R. Br. Mr. Burkill determines this species 

 from specimens obtained from various localities around Beluga Bay 

 and Lutke Land ; one of the stations is 800 ft. in altitude. 



162. P. ALPiNA L. I am greatly indebted to Mr. Burkill for the 

 nnmense trouble he has taken in working out the GraminecE in my 

 collection, consisting of many hundreds of specimens ; according to 

 his determinations, this species occurs on Dolgoi Island, common 

 around Habarova, all over Waigats, over Novaya Zemlya and 

 Lutke Land. 



163. P. ARCTicA Br. Mr. Burkill unites P. cenisea All. and 

 P. stricta Lindeb. with this species ; according to his determinations 

 P. cejiisea is the prevailing form ; it occurs in my collections from 

 Dolgoi Island; on Waigats plentiful from shore-line to 100 ft • 

 Cape Greben; south shores of Waigats; Cape Matiusela ; DoW 

 Bay, and northern shores. From Novaya Zemlya, South Goose 

 Land, Kostm Shar, Besemannya Bay, Pomorsky Bay, Gubina Bay 

 all the south shores of Matyushin Shar, over Lutke Land as far 

 north as the Pachtussow Islands and Ziwolka Fiord. P. stricta 

 seems to be a far less common form. 



164. Festuca rubra L. var. arenaria Osb. Gubina Bay 

 Besemannya Bay, and Pachtussow Islands. ' 



165. F. oviNA L. Habarova. — Subspecies F. brevifolia R. Br. 

 Beluga Bay, Lutke Land, and Ziwolka Fiord. 



166. Equisetum arvense L. Dolgoi Island; Habarova- all 

 over Waigats in suitable localities; all over Novaya Zemlya in 

 suitable localities ; Beluga Bay and Lutke Land. 



