98 H. G. SIMMONS. [SEC. ARCT. EXP. FRAM 



London collections. None were there from N. W. Greenland under that 

 name, all HART'S specimens being referred to E. Scheuchzeri. As more- 

 over E. vaginatum is found nowhere in the better known parts of Green- 

 land (when doubtful or decidedly wrong statements are left out of con- 

 sideration cf. LANGE, Consp. Fl. Groenl., p. 129, and SIMMONS, Dan. 

 Greenl. pi., p. 473), I feel justified in not hesitating to refer all such state- 

 ments to E. Scheuchzeri, even when that species is recorded alongside 

 of E. vaginatum. 



Occurrence. S. Cape York (HART); Ivsugigsok (NATHORST); 

 Ingleh'eld Gulf: Northumberland Island (STEIN), Gape Acland and Fan 

 Glacier (WETHERILL); Foulke Fjord (HART), at Reindeer Point and Etah 

 (241, 1511); Rensselaer Harbour (KANE). N. Hall Land (BESSELS). 



Eriophorum polystachium, L. 



E. polyslachium, SIMMONS, FJ. Ellesm. [E. polystachium, DURAND, 

 PI. Kan.; WETHERILL, List 1894; E. angustifolium, NATHORST, N. W. 

 Gronl.; SIMMONS, Prel. Rep.]. 



Notwithstanding that this species is probably quite as common as 

 the last in all wet localities, it seems to have escaped most collectors, 

 as appears from the small list of localities. 



Occurrence. S. Ivsugigsok (NATHORST); Inglefield Gulf: Cape 

 Acland and Fan Glacier (WETHERILL); Foulke Fjord, at Reindeer Point 

 and Etah (208, 1492, 1518); Rensselaer Harbour (KANE). 



Gramineae. 

 Festuca ovina, L. 



F. ovina, SIMMONS, Fl. Ellesm.; OSTENFELD, Plantes N. E. Gronl. 

 [F. ovina, DURAND, PI. Kan.; OSTENFELD, Fl. pi. Cape York; F. ov. var. 

 violacea, NATHORST, N. W. Gronl.; F. ov. var. brevifolia, HART, Bot. 

 Br. Pol. Exp.; WETHERILL, List 1894J. 



Most of the specimens 1 saw at Foulke Fjord, where this grass was 

 very common and abundant, especially in drier localities, belonged to 

 the var. brevifolia, (R. BR.) HART, which, in my opinion, cannot be 

 maintained as a species but is continually connected with the common 

 form from southern localities. This, however, may also be found in 

 the arctic regions, and I have specimens of it even from Foulke Fjord 

 (1486). Certainly, however, var. brevifolia is most common wherever 



