128 
figured in FI. D. tab. 2582 as G. arctica, this form is searcely diffe- 
rent from G. festucaeformis Host, Icon. III tab. 17 and G. distans 







Fig. 94. Glyceria angustata (R. Br.) Fr. 
2/3 nat. size. (Spec. from East Greenland). 

6 major Bert. 
Am.: Arctic Coast, West Greenl. 60°— 
72° 23’ (!). Eur.: Samoyede Land (!). As.: 
Arctic Coast, Mouth of the Yenissei (!), New 
Sibirian Islands (?). 
Geogr. area: North America, Iceland, 
Feerées, Europe, North Africa, Northern and 
Central Asia. 
202. G. angustata (R. Br.) Fr. 
Macoun, Catalogue IV p. 229; Hart, Brit. 
Pol. Exp: p. 142; Lge. Consp. FI. Groenl: 
p. 171; Hartz, Nordést Grénl. p.349; Dusén, 
Ost-Grénl. p. 60; Nath., Spetsb. Karly. p. 31; 
Kurtz, Fl. d. Tschuktschenh. p. 481; Fl. D. 
tab. 83006; G. maritima vy. arenaria Berlin, 
Karly. fr. Grénl. p. 78; G. vaginata v. effusa 
Roseny., Till. p. 731; G. Vahliana Th. Holm, 
Nov. Zeml. Veget. p. 15, non Liebm.; G. vagi- 
nata vy. contracta Lge. in Kjellm., Sib. Nordk. 
Fanerogamfl. p. 273; Kjellm. & Lundstr., Noy. 
Semlja p. 314; Poa angustata R. Br., Chloris 
Melvilliana p.29; Hook. Fl. bor. Am. II p. 247; 
Taylor, Pl. coll. at Davis Str. and Baff. Bay 
p. 86; Atropis angustata Ledeb. Fl. Ross. 
IV p. 390 (?). 
Densely czespitose. Leaves short, acute, 
generally convolute, glabrous; ligule evi- 
dent, bluntly acuminate or dentate. 
Culm erect, 2 or 3 times as long as the 
leaves, rigid. Panicle short, narrow, with 
2 or 3 short, erect branches from the 
lower node. Panicle-branches smooth, 
sometimes slightly rough. Spikelets 3—5- 
flowered. Glumes unequal, not reaching 
the middle of the opposite pale, acute 
or blunt. Lower pale acute or blunt, 
somewhat serrate at the top, hairy at the 
base. Veins in the glumes and pales not 
very prominent, generally tinged with 
violet and membranous at the upper part. 
Sometimes robust and with flat leaves (@. vaginata v. contracta Lge.) 
and then approaching G. distans y. arctica, but the panicle is shorter 
