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Loosely czespitose and generally with long creeping shoots. Lea- 
ves convolute, glabrous, acute; ligule evident. Culm ascending, 
glabrous. Panicle lanceolate, generally with 2—3 short branches from 
the lower node, branches appressed or ascending, generally smooth. 
Spikelets 3—8-flowered; glumes herbaceous, the lower two third as 
long as the upper, scarcely reaching the middle of the opposite 
pale; lower pale herbaceous, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate or somewhat 
blunt, at the base glabrous or sometimes a little hairy, tinged with 
violet on the margin; upper pale pectinately hairy at the margins. 
G. vilfoidea is a dwarf form with very long creeping stolons, 
growing especially in clayey soil. 
Am.: St. Lawrence Island, West Greenl. 60°—76° 7’ (!), East Green. 
60°—74° 35’). Eur.: Spitsbergen (!), Beeren Island, Novaya Zemlya to 
72°. As.: Arctic Coast (!), Chukches Land (!). 
Geogr. area: North America, Iceland, Fer6des, Europe. 
201. G. distans (L.) Wg. 
Scheutz, Pl. vasc. Jeniss. p. 187; Fl. D. tab. 2222; G. Borreri Lge. 
Consp. Fl. Groenl. p. 167 (non Bab.); G. Borreri vy. islandica Lge. 1. ec. 
p. 298; G. maritima v. virescens Lge. ].c. p. 168; G. arctica Hook. FI. bor. 
Am. II p. 248; Lge. l.c. p. 169; G. vaginata Lge. l.c. p. 168, FI. D. tab. 
2583 [vidi spec. orig.); G.conferta Fl. D. tab. 2882; G. (maritima v.) pa- 
lustris Fr., F. D. tab. 2582; Atropis distans Griseb. in Ledeb. Fl. Ross. IV 
p. 388; A. distans vy. ambigua Trautv. Syll. Pl. Sib. bor. orient. p. 545 (2); 
Poa festucaeformis Host, Icon. et descript. gramin. austr. III tab. 17. 
Ceespitose. Leaves flat, rough on the upper side, seldom con- 
volute, acute; ligule evident, often erose. Culm ascending, glabrous; 
upper sheaths slightly vaginate. Panicle variously formed, with 3 
or more elongated branches from the lower node. Panicle-branches 
generally rough. Spikelets 3—7-flowered; glumes very unequal, the 
lower one short, one-veined, not reaching the middle of the oppo- 
site pale, the upper twice as long, 3-veined membranous, in the 
upper part, obtuse, erose; pales obtuse, membranous in the upper 
part, erose, at the base more or less hairy with silky hairs, upper 
pale with short erect hairs at the margin. 
Varying much. The typical form, which is rare in Arctic re- 
gions, has reflexed lower branches of the panicle and small flowers 
(c. 2 mm.); more commonly the panicle is contracted both in the 
flowering and the fruiting state and has then generally been called 
G. Borreri. When the flowers are larger (c. 3 mm.), which often is 
the case with grasses in Arctic regions, the branches are capillary 
and spreading, but very seldom reflexed, and is then generally 
called G. arctica Hook. or G. vaginata Lge. A very large form is 
