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way down the Tanafjiord. It is curious that the label 

 of Wahlenberg's specimens runs thus : " Arumlo hispidn 

 Finmarkia via Tana-elf ... 14 Juli 1802, Wahlenberg.' 

 " In herbario Wahlenbergi sub titulo Ar. strigosa Fl. Lapp. 

 teste M. A. Lindblad." Dr. Zuel writes: "It is curious 

 that Wahlenberg- has written 'Jiisjnda' on the label. I 

 suppose that he has called the plant so at first, and then 

 has altered the name to strigosa when he published his 

 description of it." Now in stricta the Floras all say the 

 ligule is short, truncate, or split, and in twenty-eight speci- 

 mens, Scotch and English (not Irish or Caithness), the 

 ligule is 2 mm. long, and truncate. In the specimens I call 

 strigosa the ligule is 4 mm. long, and acute or subacute. 



Scandinavia is so rich in species (15) of this genus that 

 it is rather remarkable that Scotland is so poor. I see 

 that Sir J. E. Smith, under ><tricta in English Flora, i, ed. 2, 

 170 (1828), remarks, "Hairs but half the length of the 

 largest valve, a little elongated as the seed ripens." 



C strigosa occurs in Finmark, Russian and Swedish Lap- 

 land, W. Bothnia, Iceland, Greenland, and Nova Zembla : 

 C. Epigcios in Finnish Lapland (in 68' 45' N. Lat.), "in 

 regione pinifera",^ in Russian Lapland, at Kitsa, in 69^ 

 N. Lat. C -stricta in Russian Lapland to 68° N. Lat., and 

 to 68" 30' N. in Finnish Lapland.- 



In his description of stricta Wahlenberg says, " arista 

 tenui sub apice inserta corollam subaequante " ; in strigosa, 

 "arista tenui dorsali corollam aequante." Comparing florets 

 of the Del em ere, Chesliire, plant, I find under a j-lens the 

 awn equals in many florets the palae. It may, however, 

 be said the period of growth may have something to do 

 with this. In Norfolk specimens of stricta tlie awn is 

 actually 2 mu). longer than the palae (gathered end of 

 June). Does this not tend to show that our plants want 

 more examination and comparison with European examples? 

 And some of the hairs are also longer than the palae. 



' Waiiiio, l/d liore Lapp, fin., 75 (1891). 

 ■^ Herb. Mu8. Femi., 23 (1889). 



