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Append. Parry 2nd. voy., 1825, p. 406) under the name C. fuliginosa, 

 ß, squamis capsulisque pallide fascis. 



Loc. Bjørneskær; Germania Land, common; St. Koldewey. 



Flow. June 25th 08. 



Note. The most common of all the sedges in the area investigated. 



22. Carex puUa Good., Transact. Linn. Soc, III, 1797, p. 78, tab. 

 14; Ostenfeld, Fl. Arct., I, 1902, p. 95; C. vesicaria, subsp. saxatilis 

 (L.)Almq.; Kûkenthal, Caricoideae, in Das Pflanzenreich, 1909, p. 727. 



Kruuse, East Greenland, p. 19G. 



Loc. Germania Land: Danmarks Havn and landward around Dove Bugt. 



Flow. End of July. 



Note. The most common sedge in the bog, grows together with Erio- 

 phorum polystachyum; very conspicuous on account of its fresh-green 

 colour. 



Gramineae. 



Hierochloë Gmel. 



23. Hierochloë alpina (Liljebl.) Roem. & Schult., Syst. Veget., 

 vol. 2, 1817, p. 515; Gelert, in Ostenfeld, Fl. Arct., I, 1902, p. 97; 

 Savastana alpina Scribn., Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, V, 1894, p. 34. 



Kruuse, East Greenland, p. 197. 

 Loc. Germania Land, common everywhere. 

 Flow. June 16th 07; June 24th 08. 



Note. High and vigorous tufts often mark the burrows of the lemmings 

 and show at a distance wiiere such are to be found. 



Àlopecurus L. 



24. Alopecurus alpinus Sm., Engl. Bot., 1802, tab. 1126; Fl. Brit., 



Ill, 1804, p. 1386; Gelert, in Ostenfeld, Fl. Arct., I, 1902, p. 99. 



Kruuse, East Greenland, p. 19(5. 



Due d'Orleans, Cape St. Jacques (Ostenfeld, 1908, p. 9). 



All the specimens collected belong to the f. miitica Sommerf., 

 with awns not projecting beyond the pales. 



Loc. Lambert Land; Bjørneskærene; Germania Land, very common. 

 Flow. June 22nd 07. 



Aira L. 



25 a. Aira caespitosa L., var. arctica (Trin. ) Simmons, Rep. 

 Arct. Exp. Fram, 1898-1902, No. 2, 1906, p. 173; A. arctica Trinius; 

 A. breoifolia (R. Br.) Lange, Consp. Fl. Groenl., 1880, p. 163; Deschampsia 

 breuifolia R. Br., Chloris Melvill., 1823, p. 33. 



Kruuse, East Gi-eenland, p. 198. 



In his memoir on the Ellesmere Land flora Dr. H. G. Simmons 

 has fully elucidated the synonymy of the high-arctic Aira, which 

 R. Brown has named A. breuifolia. 



