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Fig. 118. PHIPPSIA ALGID A (Soland.) R. Br. Suppl. App. Parry's Voy. 275. 

 1824. {Agrostis algida Soland. in Phipp's Voy. 200. 1810. ) PHIPPSIA.— A low, 

 tufted, glabrous perennial 2-10 cm. (l'-4') high, with narrow, soft, and flat 

 leaves and contracted, simple panicles. Spikeiets (a) 1-1.5 mm. {V'-^") long; 

 outer glumes (c) minute, unequal, acute, the third glume {d) broad and obtuse 

 or erose-truncate.— Arctic North America and on the highest mountain peaks 

 of Colorado. (Greenland, Arctic Europe, and Asia.) July, August. 



