46 Monren P. Porsity 
Often forming dense carpets. 
Common throughout the whole area, but more isolated in the 
basalt-domain and the northern part. 
\ southern type, north of the area only known from a few loca- 
lities, the northmost at 72°. 
Undoubtedly a lowland-plant throughout the whole area. 
Rather much variable, but not as much as the preceding one 
Abundantly flowering and fruiting. 
Covered by snow during winter. 
th 60. Agropyron violaceum (Hony.) LANGE. 
On sand and sandy clay at the sea-shore, but also to be found at 
considerable distance from the coast; ascends to considerable altitudes. 
Disko: Kuiganguagq (Th. Fr.); at Mudderbugt? (P.) the determination doubt- 
ful, the plant being observed on a sled-journey in the winter. 
Mainland: The Waygat-coast of Nuigssuaq-peninsula, common from Ata 
69°20’ to Atanikerdluk (Th. Fr.; Htz.; P.). The tract of Holsteinsborg: Ikertég 
Fjord 66°50’ (V.); Itivneq about 67° (V.; W. & H.): hence not observed till 60 
ita) aah 
A decided southern Ly pe. 
Abundantly flowermg and fruiting. 
Now and then snowless during winter. 
A 61. Elymus arenarius L. var. villosus E. \ey. 
On sandy shores often forming dunes (ep. Porsttp: Medd. om 
Grl. 25 p. 135 ff. fig. 3—4); also im manured soil at the settlements 
and under, as well as on the fowling-cliffs; here eften ascending to con- 
siderably altitudes. On Disko and Nigssuak-peninsula very common in 
the basalt- and sandstone-domain, here bemg the most conspicuous 
plant of the sand-shore forming great dense growths. 
More scarce en the rocky coasts of the gneiss-domain, but occurs 
in the smaller creeks ending in sand-formations. The plant is to be 
found far into the valleys of the fjords following the banks of the great 
rivers, but sometimes it is absent over great distances in the interior 
of the fjords owing to the lack of suitable conditions. 
Commonly used by the natives for boot-straw when they cannot 
get Calamogrostis Langsdorfit. 
A southern type only known from a few localities north of 
the area; the northmost at 70°29' (P.). 
Abundantly, but late flowering (at Disko-Bay) and only fruiting 
after favourable summers. 
A decided winter-stander, but we have often found the unripened 
