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at Disco, where it was from a foot to eighteen inches in height. 

 The chief vegetation about the settlements, and very rank upon 

 organic matter, as gaano at Poulke Fiord and Cape York. In 

 Discovery Bay, though common, this grass is seldom more than 

 four inches in height, always growing singly and never forming a 

 sward; nor does it scatter its purple pollen — its chief beauty at 

 more southerly stations. Floeberg Beach and Cape Joseph Henry 



(H. W. F.) 



Sea-level to 1400 feet in Discovery Bay. 



Plileum alpinum, L. 



Dist. - 2. Lat. 72° 20'. G. 



Only met with at Proven. Lange gives G9° 14' as northern 



range of this plant in Greenland. 



Hierochloe aljnna, L. 



Dist. 1 2 3 - - - 7. Lat. 69° 14' to 78° 50'. W. and G. 

 Disco ; especially luxuriant and handsome at Proven ; Deserted 

 Village, Hayes Sound. 



] h'schawpsiu ccespitosa, Beauv. 



Dist. 12. Lat. 81° 42'. W. 



Discovery Bay ; not known from the west coast of Greenland. 



Trisetum subspicatiun, Beauv. 



Dist. 12 12. Lat. 69° 14' to 81° 42'. W. and G. 



Disco and Proven ; not again seen till Discovery Bay, where it 

 grows on Mount Cartmel and on Bellot Island ; very luxuriant at 

 Proven. 



Sea -level to 700 feet at Discovery Bay. 



Colpodtum latifuliion, Br. 



Dist. 12 3 12. Lat. G9° 14' to 81° 50'. W. & G. 



Not unfrequent in Discovery Bay, usually on wet places near 

 the sea — as far north as Shift Rudder Bay. 



Phippsza alyida, Br. 





Dist. 8 9 - - 12. Lat. 79° 30' to 81° 42'. W 



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in Discovery Bay, growing in mud by the sea-edge on grounc 

 which is flooded by spring-tides. 



Sea-level to 100 feet on Walrus Island. 



Glycerin angustata, Br. (G. festucafonms, Host., Poa awjus- 

 tat a, Br.) 



Dist. 1 6 - 8 ... 12. Lat. 69° 14' to 81° 42'. W. & G. 



Confined to the sea coast; Englishman's Bay, Disco; Cape 

 Sabine and Walrus Island (coll. Moss) ; Gould Bay (coll. Copp.) ! 

 frequent in Discovery Bay and Watercourse Bay to the north east. 



Poa prat s, L. (and vars.) 



Dist, -2 — 5. Lat. 72° 20' to 78° 18'. E. and G. 

 Proven and Foulke Fiord. 



P. nemoralis, L. (P. easia, Sin.) 



Dist. 1 7 12. Lat G8° 42' to 81° 42'. W. and Gh 



Disco; Twin Glacier, Hayes Sound; common in Discovery Bay. 



