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Ellesmereland specimens generally had more or less dark, even 

 quite black, scales and consequently represent the f. tristis, (Th. Fr.) 



OsTENF. 



In swamps the species was never lacking in any place I visited, 

 and also in other more or less w^et localities, it was generally found. 

 From the end of June it was generally in flower, and soon the woolly 

 fruiting spikes appeared. 



Occurrence. North Coast: Floeberg Beach (Hart). Grinnell 

 Land: Discovery Harbour (Hart, Greely). Hayes Sound region, very 

 common, specimens from: Eskimopolis (848), Bedford Pirn Island (266, 

 447, 1252). South coast, also very common, specimens from : Fram 

 Fjord (1621), Harbour Fjord (2538), Wolf Valley in the Goose Fjord 

 (3953). West coast: Reindeer Gove and Lands End. 



Distribution: all over the Arctic Regions (except Franz Joseph 

 Land and Jan Mayen) and far down in the temperate parts, at least of 

 Europe and Asia (but perhaps not in America). 



Graixiineae. 



Agropyrum violaceum, (Hornem.) Lange. 



Tritimm violaceum, Hornemann, FL Dan., Ease. 35, 1832; Scheutz, PI. vase. Jeniss.; 

 Agropyrum violaceum, Lange, Consp. FL GroenL; Ostenfeld, FI. Arct.; Brit- 

 ton & Brown, III. FL; A. dasystachium var. violaceum, Greely, Rep. 

 Fig. Fl. Dan., T. 2044. 



As there can hardly be any possibility of a mistake, I must take 

 for good the statement of Greely, 1. c, even without having seen a 

 specimen. No notes about habitat are given, only that the specimens 

 are said to be from 2 to 7 inches high. 



Occurrence. Grinnell Land, Discovery Harbour in Lady Franklin 

 Bay (Greely). 



Distribution: West Greenland, Canada, mountains of the North 

 Western United States, Rocky Mountains to Colorado, British Columbia 

 (Gelert, in OsTENFELD, 1. c, thinks the varieties purpurascens and 

 nanum of A. repens, which Hooker mentions in Fl. Bor. Amer., 2., p. 

 254, from Arctic America, collected by Richardson, to be probably refer- 

 able here, but I have seen no T. violaceum from Arctic America in the 

 London collections); mouth of the Yenissei River, Northern Finland 

 and Scandinavia, Iceland. 



