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following species. However in its extreme forms, it its characterized by 

 its narrow leaves, the very contracted panicles and small spikelets. The 

 description of Rob. Brown entirely applies to my specimens and I think 

 that they represent the plant which he has described, notwithstanding 

 there are specimens in the material from Melville Island (in the Nat. 

 Hist. Mus.). that come rather near to G. distans. But others are doubt- 

 less the original plant of the description. Gelert (1. c, p. 126 and 128) 

 in my opinion, has laid too much stress upon the number of panicle- 

 branches from the lower node. Often the peduncles of most spikelets 

 go directly out from the node as it seems, and then the number often 

 reaches five or more. Such, for instance, is the case with an individual 

 belonging to the same specimen as the original of one of the figures 

 in the Fl. Dan., T. 3006 (from Spitsbergen, Kingsbay, 1864, Th. Fries). 

 More certain it seems to be, that the number of flowers in the spikelet 

 only reaches four to five; the Fl. Dan. figure, however, also differs in 

 this point. 



The best distinguishing mark between this and the following seems 

 to lie in the inconspicuous nerves of the lower pale. The ligule is 

 generally somewhat longer and more pointed than in the following 

 species. The leaves are generally narrower and shorter, the sheaths 

 less inflated. 



Hart, 1. c, p. 10, gives a whole collection of different names after 

 G. angustata, and his specimens show a corresponding variety of dif- 

 ferent plants [G. distans var. ardica, Poa glauca, and in the Kew 

 herbarium a single G. angustata). 



Grows in open clay-plains and seems to be very rare, but may 

 perhaps have been overlooked and confounded with the following 

 species. 



Occurrence. Grinnell Land: Discovery Harbour (Hart!). South 

 coast: Fram Fjord in the Western valley (1633), Goose Fjord, east of 

 3rd quarters (4247). West coast: Goal Bay in Baumann Fjord (?). 



Distribution: this is difficult to give, but I may record the 

 localities from whence 1 have seen specimens, or where Gelert has had 

 an opportunity of verifying the older statements: East Greenland (speci- 

 mens from Kjerulf Fjord, which Kruuse, 1. c, p. 202, refers here, most 

 probably represent G. tenella, as I have seen in the Stockholm her- 

 barium). West Greenland (the specimens of Nathorst, N. W. Gronl., 

 p. 27, from Ivsugisok belong to the following), Arctic American Archipel- 

 ago: Baffin Land, Cumberland Sound, (Taylor!), Digges Island, Igloolik 



