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Poa pratensis, L. 



p. pratensis, Linnaeus, Sp. plant., |1753; Gelert, in Ostenfeld, F1. Arct. ; Lange, 

 Consp. Fl. GroenL; Kbdtjse, List E. Greenl.; Simmons, Prel. Rep. et Bot. Arb ; 

 Hooker, Fl. Bor. Amer.; Britton & Brown, III Fl.; Kjellman, in Vegaexp.; 

 Ledebour, FI. Ross.; Feilden, F). pi. Nov. Zeml.; Nathorst, Nya bidr. 

 Fig. Sv. Bot., T. 88; Fl. Dan., T. 1444; Tab. nostra 8, fig. 1 (f. proUfera). 



The few specimens of this species which I have brought home, 

 seem best referable to var. alpigena, N. M. Blytt, Norg. Fl. They 

 are found in places of old Eskimo habitation, which accords well with 

 what Lange, 1. c, p. 177, mentions about its appearance in Greenland. 



At the Jones Sound coast I only found proliferous forms that I 

 could refer to this, that is to say I am not absolutely certain about their 

 place (cf. P. cenisia). Especially is it doubtful whether the proliferous 

 Poa from the Falcon Cliff (4008) which was found in company with 

 P. cenisia ought not rather to be referred to the latter. But the little 

 that could be seen of the structure of the pales, pointed rather to P. 

 pratensis, as the pale was tolerably distinctly veined, with long-haired 

 veins. The proliferous form was found elsewhere in open gravelly or 

 somewhat clayey soil. 



Occurrence. Hayes Sound: Skrah'ng Island (1361), Cape Viele 

 (4248). Proliferous forms from the South coast: Fram Fjord at the 

 mouth of the river of the Western valley (1635); Goose Fjord, Falcon 

 Cliff (4008), gravel-ridge east of 3rd quarters (3480). 



Distribution: East and West Greenland, Arctic American 

 Archipelago (specimens only seen from Beechey Island in North Devon), 

 Western Arctic and Temperate North America (partly introduced ac- 

 cording to Britton & Brown, 1. c), in Asia from the New Siberian 

 Islands and the arctic coast far southwards, all over Europe, Novaja 

 Semlja, Spitsbergen, Franz Joseph Land, Faeroes, Iceland, Southern 

 South America. 



Pleuropogon Sabinei, R. Br. 



p. Sabinei, R. Brown, Chlor. Melv., 1823; Gelert, in Ostenfeld, Fl. Arct.; 

 Nathorst, N. W. Gronl.; Lange, Consp. Fl. GroenL, 2; Kruuse, List E. 

 Greenl; Simmons, Prel. Rep. et Bot. Arb.; Taylor, Fl. pi. Baffin B.; Hooker, 

 Account Walker; Hooker, Fl. Bor. Amer.; Britton & Brown, 111. Fl.; Kjellman, 

 in Vegaexp. ; Feilden, Fl. pi. Nov. Zeml. 



Fig. R. Brown, 1. c, T. D; Nordenskiold, Vegas fard, 1, p. 318; 

 Ostenfeld, 1. c, fig. 90; Tab. nostra 10. 



As I thought it very probable, that this interesting plant, which 

 was previously found both by Nathorst in north-western Greenland 



