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and more dense. In its typical form the plant is generally slender, 
but rigid, and with narrower, convolute leayes. Rarely the culms 
are short, thin and decumbent (vy. decumbens E. J6rgensen in shed.). 
Am.: Kotzebue Sound (?), Arctic Sea Coast and Islands, Diggis Island 
in Hudson Strait, Baffin Land, Elesmere Land, Grinnell Land to 81° 42’, 
West Greenl. 67° 45’—70° 15’ (!), East Greenl. 65° 35’ (!) and 70°—73° 10’ (1). 
Eur.: Spitsbergen (!), Novaya Zemlya at 71°(!), Waigats (!). As.: Arctic 
Coast (!), Chukches Land (!). 
Geogr. area: Northeast America to Maine. 

Fig. 95. Glyceria tenella Lge. °/, nat. size. (Spec. from Novaya Zemlya). 
&. i! I y 
203. G. tenella Lge. in Kjellm. & Lundstr., Noy. Semlja_p. 
313, tab. 6. 
G. tenella f. pumila Lge. in Th. Holm, Noy. Zeml. Veget. p. 16 tab. 3; 
G. Langeana Berlin, Karly. fr. Grénl. p. 79; Lge. Consp. FI. Groenl. p. 300; 
Roseny., Till. p. 732; Nye Bidrag p. 71; Kruuse, Veget. i Egedesm. Skjzerg. 
p. 355 and p. 360. 
Densely czespitose. Leaves narrow, selaceous, convyolute, glab- 
rous, acute; ligule slightly prominent, obtuse, erose. Culm 5—15 em. 
high, scarcely exceeding the leaves. Panicle narrow, contracted, 
with 2—3 capillary branches from the lower node, panicle-branches 
Flora Arctica. 9 
