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lished by R. Brown aa a doubtful Colpodium now forms Grise- 

 bach's genus Arctagrostis. 



1. C. folvum (Trill.) Griseb. Le<lb. Fl. Ross. 4:385 (18.53), 

 Poa fulva Triu. Act. Petrop. (VI.) I: 378 (1831). Ghjccrin fnha 

 Fries, Summ. Veg. Seuml. 244 (184G-9). (irajihephorttm fultmin 

 A. Gray, Ann. Hot. Soc. Camula, 67 (1861). 



A stout perennial, 30-00 cm. bigb, smootb from culm to floral 

 glume. Leaves 4-G-12; ligule lacerate, 3 mm. long; blades flat, 

 pungent-pointed or sometimes obtuse, 5-25 cm. long, 5-8 mnu 

 wide. Panicles exserted, open, thin, ovoid, 8-15 cm. long, rays in 

 fours and fives, drooping, the longest 6-8 cm. long, bearing a few 

 spikelets on the outer half. Spikelets pedicellate, oval or oblong, 

 4-0-flowered, 5-6 cm. long; first glume lance-ovate, 1-nervod, al)out 

 3 mm. long: second oval-acute or obtuse, IJ-nerved, 4.6 nun. long; 

 floral glume broad-oval, obtuse, 3-6-nerved, about 4 mm. long; 

 palea obtuse or 2-toothed, 3.5 mm. long. Anthers 1.8 mm. loug. 



Alaska, Harringlon, Mnrdock 55; British Columbia, Mr Kay; 

 Greenland, Wriyhf; Bering Sea, Dr. C. Hart Merriam in 1801. 



2. C. pendulinum Griseb. Ledb. FI. Ross. 4:386 (1853). 

 Qrapheplwriim pendtiUnuin A. Gruy, Ann. Bot. Soc. Canada 



Fig. 110. — Colpodium pendulinum. A, spikelet; a, floret. (Scrlbner.) 

 (1801). Poa Laestadii Rupr. Beitr. Pfl. Russ. Reich. 2: 63 (1845)* 

 Ardophila LcBstadii Rupr.; Iteitr. Pfl. Russ. Reich. 3:63 (1845). 



