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longer and narrower; ligule evident, obtuse. Panicle racemose, 
rachis and pedicels capillary, striate, glabrous. Spikelets drooping, 
about 10 mm. long, 5—8-flowered. Glumes very small, unequal; 

b 
a 

Fig. 89. Catabrosa concinna Th. Fr. %/, nat. size. Fig. 90. Pleuropogon Sabinii R. Br. %/, nat. size. 
(Spec. from Spitsbergen). a, flower. b, flower of (Spec. from Waigats). 
Phippsia algida (Soland.) R. Br. 
lower pale oblong-obovate, 5-veined, obtuse, erose, tinged with dark 
violet and white membranous-margined at the top, hairy with small 
appressed white hairs; upper pale (palet) with two sete at the 
margin on each side opposite each other, the lower ones from 
near the base and nearly as long as the pale, the upper ones from 
slight above the middle, not reaching the lower ones. 
Am.: Melville Island (!), Southampton Island (!), Baffin Land from Cum- 
berland Gulf to Cape Adair 71° 20’, West Greenl. 76° 8’, East Greenl. 71°. 
