101 
Am.: St. Lawrence Island, Kotzebue Sound, West Greenl. 60°—72° 
23’ (!), East Greenl. 60°—65° 35’ (!). Eur.: Samoyede Land. As.: Mouth 
of the Yenissei. 
Geogr. area: Northern North America, Iceland, Northern Scandi- 
navia, Northern Russia, The Alps, Caucasus, Altai, Kamchatka. 
5. PHIPPSIA R. Br. 
161. P. algida (Soland.) R. Br., Chloris Melvilliana, p. 27. 
Hook. Fl. bor. Am. II p. 238; Macoun, Catalogue IV p.196; Hart, 
Brit. Pol. Exped. p. 142; Taylor, Pl. coll. at Davis Str. and Baff. Bay p. 86; 
Cornell Party, Peary Voy. 1896, p. 418; Feilden, Nov. Zemlya p. 25; 
P. monandra Trin., Hook. |. c. p. 238; Catabrosa algida Fr., Lge. Consp. 
Fl. Groenl. p.166; Peary, Auxil. Exped. App. C. p. 8; Hook. Fox Exp. 
p. 85; Th. Fries, Beeren Isl. Veget. p. 156; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. IV p. 338; 
Reichardt, Fl. Jan Mayen p. 10; 
Nath., Spetsb. Karlv. p. 32; 
Trauty. Consp. Fl. Nov. Zeml. 
p. 84; Andersson, Konig Karls 
Land p.557; Kjellm., Sib. Nordk. 
Fanerogamfl. p. 273, As. Beringss. 
p. 559, St. Lawrence-6n p. 21; 
Schmidt, Fl. Jeniss. arct. p. 128; 
Agrostis algida Wg., Fl. D. tab. 
1505. 
Ceespitose, 2—15 cm. high. 
Leaves flat, glabrous, obtuse; 
ligule long; sheaths some- 
what inflated. Panicle con- 
tracted, in colour generally 
green, linear-lanceolate. Spi- 
kelets very small,about 1 mm., 
1-flowered. Glumes very small, often wanting; pales about equal, 
membranous margined, glabrous; stamens 1—3; stigmas elongated. 

Fig. 78. Phippsia algida (Soland.) R. Br. 3/, nat. size. 
(Spec. from West Greenland). 
Am.: St. Lawrence Island, Kotzebue Sound, Point Barrow, Arctic 
Coast and Islands, Hudson Strait, Baffin Land, Ellesmere Land, Grinnell 
Land to 81° 42’ (!), West Greenl. 60°—77° 12’ (!), East Greenl. 60° 28’ and 
70°—74° 32’ (). Eur.: Jan Mayen (!), Spitsbergen (!), King Charles Islands, 
Franz Josef Archipelago (!), Beeren Island (!), Kolguey, Waigats, Novaya 
Zemlya to 75°(!), Samoyede Land. As.: Arctic Coast (1), Mouth of the 
Yenissei, Taimyr Peninsula 75°36’, Chukches Land. 
Geogr. area: Iceland, Scandinavia, Northern Russia. 
6. CALAMAGROSTIS Adans. 
A. Awn evidently exceeding the spikelet................ C. arundinacea. 
