1898—1902. No. 16.) FLOW. PLANTS AND FERNS OF N.-W. GREENLAND. 105 
It must be taken for granted, I think, that the plant from Ingle- 
field Gulf in WeTHERILL’s list is really the same as that found in the 
northern, western and southern parts of Ellesmereland as well as in 
other parts of the Arctic American Archipelago. It is indeed curious, 
that it should be absent from just that part of Ellesmereland which lies 
nearest to the Smith Sound region of N. W. Greenland. However, even 
if it does not grow in the Hayes Sound district it may perhaps exist in 
the little-known region down to Clarence Head; and at all events, there 
are other species lacking, or rare, in the Hayes Sound region, which are 
common to the south coast of Ellesmereland and the southern part of 
N. W. Greenland. Moreover, the plant here in question is also found 
in North-Eastern Greenland. I therefore think it best to give it a place 
in the list on the authority of WeTHERILL, although I wish very much 
that I could first have made an examination of it, the more so as it is 
not only in itself critical but there is also the following still somewhat 
doubtful species, to which it might be referred. 
Occurrence. S. Inglefield Gulf: Cape Acland (WerseriLt). 
Aira flexuosa, L. 
‘A. flecuosa, Simmons, FI. Ellesm. 
The Aira, which Natuorst collected at Ivsugigsok in 1883 and in 
N. W. Gronl., p. 27, refers to the same plant that Ros. Brown had 
described in Chlor Melv. as Deschampsia brevifolia, has given me a 
good deal of trouble, as has also my own plant from Fram Harbour in 
Eastern Ellesmereland. They are very like each other, the principal 
difference being that my plant has all the leaves flat, NatHorst’s has 
them generally convolute. Both differ from the common A. flexuosa 
in possessing a short awn, which is not, or at least very little, excerted 
beyond the glume. But in other respects they agree with that species 
far more than with A. caespitosa, and they call to mind especially the 
form which Berun, Karly. sv. exp. Grénl., p. 77, has called A. fleauosa 
var. montana {. pallida, which has the same short, straight, included 
awn. For the present, until a better material can be procured by some 
future collector, I must, even if I cannot do so without some hesitation, 
let it stand where I placed it in my Ellesmereland flora. 
Natuorst, however, in the same paper, speaks also about another 
Aira, which he found on Hare Island in Danish Greenland and referred 
to the same variety, although he speaks of differences between them. 
As I have previously mentioned (Dan. Greenl. PI., p. 478), this is in fact 
