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and TRAUTVETTER (Pl. sib. bor., Acta Horti Petrop. V, 1877) has also 
shown the same. 
Our young specimens have quite glabrous sheaths (also the lower 
ones), but the blades are hairy on the upper side. 
9. Trisetum spicatum (L.) RıcHTER, Pl. Europ. I, 1890, p. 59; 7. sub- 
spicatum (L.) P. BEAUV., Agrost., 1812, p. 180. 
Puzzew's list, Point Barrow to Mackenzie River. 
King Point. Low flowering specimens (July 1906, GODFRED 
HANSEN). 
Poa L. 
10. Poa pratensis L., Sp. pl, 1753, p. 67. 
Herrschell Isl. Low plants with young panicles (July 13th, 1906). 
11. Poa cenisia ALL., Auct. Fl. Pedemont., 1789, p. 40. 
King Point. A single specimen with panicle just before flowering 
was collected in July, 1906 (GoDFRED HANSEN). 
12. Poa glauca M. Vant, Fl. Dan., 1790, p. 3, tab. 964; P. cesia 
Su., Fl. Brit., I, 1800, p. 103; Engl. Bot., 24, tab. 1719. 
King Point. Large tufts in beginning of flowering have been 
collected in July 1906. One of the forms met with may be called f. e/atior 
(Anpers.) LANGE, Consp. Fl. Groenl., 1880, p. 173; it has flat, 2 mm. 
broad culm-leaves. Å single small specimen from June 28th may perhaps 
be identified as f. atroviolacea LANGE, I. c. 
Glyceria R. Br. 
13. Glyceria distans (L.) WAHLENB,, f. arctica (Hook.) GELERT, in 
ÖSTENFELD, Fl. Arct., I, 1902, p. 127. 
Herschell Isl. Well-developed flowering specimens (July 17th). 
Festuca L. 
14. Festuca rubra L var. arenaria (OsBECK) Fr., Fl. Hall, 1818, 
p. 28; F. rubra lanuginosa Mert. & Kocn.; Piper, N. Am. Festuca 
Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. X, 1, 1906, p. 23. 
F. Richardsonii Hoox., Putten’s list, Hutchisons’s Bay. 
King Point. Fragmentary specimens with old panicles were col- 
lected at June 28th, 1906. 
Herschell Isl. Fragments (July 13th 1906). 
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