130 
glabrous. Spikelets 4—6-flowered, small. Glumes unequal, acute, 
the lower half as long as the upper, not reaching the middle of 
the opposite pale; lower pale narrow, very small, 1,5—2 mm. long, 

with 5 prominent veins, green, tinged with violet at the margins, 
glabrous. 
Am.: West Greenl. 60° 25'—68° 46’ in five localities (!). Eur.: No- 
vaya Zemlya to 72° (!), Waigats. 
Obs. As the chief difference between G. fenella and G. Langeana Berlin quotes 
that the former has extravaginate, the latter intravaginate shoots. This however 
is a mistake, the intravaginate shoots are common to both and to all the other 
Glyceria-species. 
20. FESTUCA L. 
A. Czespitose. 
as lall, with spreadinpypanicle ica. «usrcws)euciciiear ssc 6 kclte ee see F. altaica. 
b. Low, with contracted, almost spike-like panicle ........... F. ovina. 
Bae stoloniferousi.tc tive tsnyuce Guach meni nee Ulises kev euia Sse ORR F. rubra. 
204. F. altaica Trin. in Ledeb. FI. Altaica I p. 109 (1829), Icon. 
Fl. Ross. tab. 228. 
Scheutz, Pl. vase. Jeniss. p. 184; Kjellm., As. Beringss. p. 556, Vest- 
Eskim. Land p. 54; F. scabrella Torr. in Hook. FI. bor. Am. II p. 252 
tab. 233 (1840). 
Ceespitose. Culms 1 metre high, densely covered with old 
sheaths below. Leaves long, involute; ligule very short, fimbriate. 
Panicle lax, pyramidal; panicle-branches long, capillary, about two 
from each node and with few spikelets. Spikelets 3—5-flowered. 
Glumes unequal, 1- and 3-nerved, acuminate, membranous. Lower 
pale 0,75—1 em. long, acuminate, 5-nerved, densely hairy with 
short appressed hairs. 
Am.: Port Clarence (!). As.: Mouth of the Yenissei (!), Chukches Land. 
Geogr. area: Rocky Mountains, Siberia, Altai. 
205. F. ovina L. 
Taylor, Pl. coll. at Davis Str. and Baff. Bay p.86; Lge. Consp. FI. 
Groenl. p. 179; Hartz, Nordoést Gronl. p. 351; Feilden, Fl. of Kolguev 
p. 184, Nov. Zemlya p. 25; Ledeb. FI. Ross. IV p. 350; Nath., Spetsb. 
Karly. p. 29; Blytt, Bidrag p.9; Schmidt, Fl. Jeniss. arct. p. 126; Trauty. 
Consp. Fl. Nov. Zeml. p. 83, Syll. Pl. Sib. bor. orient. p. 540, PI. Sib. 
bor. p. 134; Kjellm., As. Beringss. p. 556, Vest-Eskim. Land p. 54; Kjellm. 
& Lundstr., Nov. Semlja p. 313; Fl. D. tab. 2462 and tab. 2043; F. brevi- 
folia R. Br., Chloris Melvill. p. 831; Hook. Fl. bor. Am. II p. 250; Hart, 
Brit. Pol. Exped. jp. 141; Nath., lcip. 295 Taylor, lc. ip: 86) FID: 
tab. 2706; F. ovina *borealis Lge. 1. c. p. 179; F. ovina, var. alpina and 
var. brevifolia, Dusén, Ost-Grénl. p. 62; F. ovina f. alpina, Kurtz, FI. 
d. Tschuktschenh. p. 481; F. duriuscula Lge. |. c. p. 180 (p. pt.); F. 
oyina f. duriuscula Trautyv. Fl. rip. Kolym. p. 569; F. Richardsonii Hook. 
