172 G. H. SIMMONS. [sec. arct. exp. fram 



home of which is recorded as "India", but on the next page as n. 7 an 

 A. spicata again appears, which is said to be found in "Lapponia". 

 In the "Errata" however the name of the first "A. spicata" is corrected 

 to "indicum" , whereas the second "A. spicata" is upheld. But in the 

 next work where he treats these species, Syst. Nat, Ed. 10, Vol. 2, p, 

 873(1759), both names are altered, the first plant now is called A. indica 

 and the second A. subspicata (it is evident, that no other plant can 

 be meant as the short description from the Sp. plant, is here re- 

 printed: "A. fol. planis, panic, spicata, flosc. medio aristatis; arista reflexa 

 laxiore''). Probably Linnaeus has at the time forgotten his own cor- 

 rection or he has then been of the opinion that a name used for two quite 

 different plants (at the same time) must be entirely omitted. But when, 

 1763, he published the second editon of Sp. plant., he took another 

 view of the matter, as there the two plants are called A. indica and A. 

 spicata in correspondence with the correction to the first edition. As 

 Linnaeus has himself corrected the error in the Sp. plant., Ed. 1, his first 

 species name "spicata" must be upheld for our plant and not the second 

 "subspicata", which he has himself again abandoned. To revive the name 

 Avena airoides of Koeler (1802) is quite out of the question, as both 

 names of Linnaeus are prior to it. To the genus Trisetum the species 

 was referred by Palisot de Beauvois, but as he used the species name 

 "subspicatum", Richter is to be quoted in stead of him for the re- 

 ferring of the plant to that genus. 



In Ellesmereland the species is found pricipally in slopes and rock 

 ledges, especially in rookeries and other places with a richer soil. In 

 the Hayes Sound district I have not found it. 



Occurrence. Grinnell Land : on Mount Cartmel and Bellot Island 

 in Lady Franklin Bay (Hart), also in Greely's list. South coast: 

 especially in the archaean territory; Fram Fjord in several places (-1609, 

 1665); Harbour Fjord at Seagull Rock (2586), Lake Valley, "green patch" 

 at the anchorage (2154, 4001), Barren Valhes, Western Sound; South 

 Cape; Muskox Fjord; Goose Fjord, rather rare, east of 3rd quarters 

 (3479), Gull Cove (in the rookery). 



Distribution: East and West Greenland, Arctic American Ar- 

 chipelago, Arctic America, Labrador, Canada, in the higher mountains 

 down to North Carolina, New Mexico and California, Alaska, Pribilof 

 Islands, Arctic Siberia, Kamshatka, Altai, Caucasus, Ural, Arctic Russia, 

 Novaja Semlja, Spitsbergen, Northern Scandinavia, mountains of Central 

 Europe, Iceland, Columbia, Peru, Southern South America, Tierra del 

 Fuego, Campbell Islands, Tasmania. 



