123 
Am.: St. Lawrence Island, Port Clarence, Kotzebue Sound, Nome 
City, Arctic Sea-coast in every direction, Hudson Strait, Baffin Land, 
Grinnell Land to 82°40’, West Greenl. 60°—81° 40’ (!), East Greenl. 60° 20’ (), 
70°—74° 40’ (!). Eur.: Jan Mayen (!), Beeren Island, Spitsbergen (!), King 
Charles Land, Franz Josef Archipelago (!), Novaya Zemlya to 74° (!), 
Waigats (!), Dolgoi Island, Kolguey (!), Habarowa (!). As.: Arctic Coast (!), 
Mouths of the Yenissei (!), Lena and Kolyma, Taimyr Peninsula (!), New 
Siberian Islands, Chukches Land. 
Geogr. area: Labrador, Northern Scandinavia, Northern Russia, 
Siberia, Kamchatka. 
192. P. bulbosa L. 
Schmidt, Fl. Jeniss. arct. p.127; FI. D. tab. 2606. 
Densely ceespitose. Culm at the base bulbous thickened. Leaves 
very narrow, capillary. Panicle oblong. Spikelets very small, 1—2- 
flowered, generally viviparous. 
As.: Yenissei-Islands at Ochotskoje. 
Geogr. area: Europe, Northern Africa, Northern Asia. 
193. P. alpina L. 
Macoun, Catalogue IV p. 222; Eastwood, Pl. coll. at Nome City, 
p. 130; Taylor, Pl. coll. at Davis Str. and Baff. Bay p.85; Hart, Brit. 
Pol. Exp. p. 142; Greely, Lady Frankl. Bay Exped. II p. 15; Lge. Consp. 
Fl. Groenl. p. 176; Hartz, Nordést Grénl. p. 350; Dusén, Ost-Gronl. p. 61; 
Nath., Spetsb. Karlv. p. 30; Feilden, Fl. of Kolguev p. 184, Noy. Zemlya 
p. 24; Trautv. Consp. Fl. Nov. Zeml. p. 84; Kjellm. & Lundstr., Nov. Semlja 
p. 313; Reichardt, Fl. Jan Mayen p. 10; Schmidt, FI. Jeniss. arct. p. 126; 
Fl. D. tab. 137, Suppl. tab. 66. 
Densely ceespitose. Base of the culm densely covered with old 
sheaths. Leaves short, broad, abruptly acuminate. Ligule evident. 
Culm and leaves smooth. Culm bent ascending with a few leaves. 
Panicle ovate or pyramidal. Spikelets ovate, 3—6-flowered. Pale 
hairy in the lower part, especially on the dorsal and the marginal 
veins, but not woolly. Often viviparous. 
Am.: Nome City, Between Repulse Bay and Cape Lady Pelly, Hud- 
son Strait, Baffin Land, Ellesmere Land, Grinnell Land to 81° 44’, West 
Greenl. 60°—81° 42’ (!), East Greenl. 60°—74° 40’ (!). Eur.: Jan Mayen (!), 
Spitsbergen (!), Kolguev (!), Dolgoi Island, Novaya Zemlya to 74°, Waigats (1), 
Samoyede Land, Habarowa. As.: Mouth of the Yenissei (‘). 
Geogr. area: Northern North America, Iceland, Ferées, British 
Isles, Northern Scandinavia, Finland, Northern Russia, The Alps, Cau- 
casus, Northern Asia. 
194. P. laxa Haenke. 
Host, Icon. et descript. gramin. austr. III tab. 15; Hook. FI. bor. 
Am. II p. 246; Macoun, Catalogue IV p. 225; J. Hook. Fox Exped. p. 85; 
Greely, Lady Frankl. Bay Exped. II p.15; Kurtz, Fl. d. Tschuktschenh. 
p. 480; Fl. D. tab. 2342; P. laxiuscula Lge. (non Blytt) Consp. Fl. Groenl. 
