100 H. G. SIMMONS. [SEC. ARCT. EXP. FRAM 
This seems to be a rare species in N. W. Greenland, as it is only 
collected by Batre (Ostenretp, Fl. pl. Cape York) and myself (for the 
G. angustata of Naruorst from Ivsugigsok see Simmons, |. c., p. 157, 
and under the next species). It grew on the gravelly beach near Rein- 
deer Point, rather sparingly. 
Occurrence. S,. Wolstenholme Sound: Agpa (Saunders Island) 
and Umanak (Batxe); Foulke Fjord near Reindeer Point (1527). 
Glyceria distans, (L.) WaAHLENB. 
G. distans, Simmons, Fl. Ellesm. [G. distans, Ostenrexp, Fl. pl. 
Cape York; G. angustata, Naruorst, N. W. Gronl.}. 
Probably this species is quite as common as in Ellesmereland, but 
most collectors have left the grasses unnoticed and consequently only a 
few statements about them exist in the literature about N. W. Green- 
land. At Foulke Fjord it grew abundantly in the rich soil of the old 
Eskimo village of Etah. The form I found there was var. arctica, (Hoox.) 
GELERT, which is already reported from another point in that neighbour- 
hood by Duranp, Enum. pl. Smith S._ I have ascertained in the arctic 
herbarium of the Stockholm museum that the G. angustata of Nar- 
HorsT, |. c., is the other variety vaginata, (LANGE) GELERT. 
Occurrence. S. Ivsugigsok (NatHorst); Wolstenholme Sound: 
Agpa and Umanak (Batue); Foulke Fjord: Port Foulke (Hayes) and 
Etah (236). 
Glyceria maritima, (Hups.) Wants. 
var. reptans, (HartTM.) Sr. 
G. marit. var. reptans, Simmons, Fl. Ellesm. [G. vilfoidea, Nat- 
Horst, N. W. Gronl.]. 
As I have previously mentioned (I. c. p. 160) my Foulke Fjord 
specimens of this plant are somewhat different from those of Ellesmere- 
land. They are considerably stouter, have longer leaves, and not such 
long-creeping and densely radicant stolons. This may be accounted for 
by the habitat, which was rather different from the usual, somewhat 
loamy, beach localities of the plant. Here it grew in fissures and de- 
pressions of the rocks, near the beach on Reindeer Point, that is to say 
in more sheltered places than on the open shore. That may also, I think, 
account for the fact that the plant had here produced a few inflores- 
cences, while it was always found sterile in Ellesmereland. These pan- 
icles, which on account probably of the dry situation, were already 
