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



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

 Bay (INGLEFIELD, STEIN); Foulke Fjord at Etah, Reindeer Point, etc. 

 (STEIN, 232, 235, 1467, 1468, 1522). 



Poa abbreviate, R. BR. 



P. abbreviata, SIMMONS, Fl. Ellesm. ; OSTENFELD, Plantes N. E. Gronl. 

 [P. abbreviata, WETHERILL, List 1894]. 



Seems to be a rare species on this side of Smith Sound, notwith- 

 standing its general appearance on the american side. I only saw a 

 few individuals of it in Foulke Fjord in a dry slope. 



Occurrence. S. Inglefield Gulf: Netiulumi (WETHERILL); Foulke 

 Fjord, near Etah (1487). 



Poa alpina, L. 



Although the species is recorded again and again from different 

 localities in N. W. Greenland (by DICKIE, DURAND, and HART), as also 

 from Ellesmereland, I feel justified in excluding it here as I have done 

 in my Fl. Ellesm., because there is not a single specimen in the Lon- 

 don collections to support those records. As for the american collec- 

 tions, I have of course not seen them, but DURAND'S identifications are 

 always subject to doubt and cannot be used when improbable. It is 

 not easy to say what plant those authors may have had in view: it 

 may have been both P. glauca and P. cenisia. It seems, however, 

 most probable that they have identified with P. alpina the same form 

 of P. cenisia which puzzled me at Harbour Fjord in Ellesmereland and 

 which is very similar to P. alpina because of the short internodes of 

 the rhizome, that give it an almost tufted mode of growth. From speci- 

 mens in the Stockholm herbarium it appears that NATHORST has col- 

 lected such a form at Ivsugigsok, but he has not allowed himself to be 

 led astray by its unusual habit. He speaks also, N. W. Gronl., p. 27, 

 of P. flexuosa, WAHLENB., forming dense mats below the rookeries. 



I think I may refer all the localities mentioned for P. alpina to 

 P. cenisia without any fear of making a wrong statement, as the latter 

 common plant is certainly not lacking in any of them. 



P. cenisia, ALL. 



P. cenisia, SIMMONS, Fl. Ellesm.; OSTENFELD, Plantes JN. E. Gronl. 

 [P. cenisia, SUTHERLAND, Voyage; WETHERILL. List 1894; P. arc- 



