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L. (probably to the Museum of St. Petersburg) and Macoun's Catalogue Canad. 

 Plants 1888 records it from Buffalo Lake, lat. 56°. It is thus testified, that P. va- 

 ginatus, or a form of it, occurs in Canada (see under P. vag in.). P. filiformis also 

 is growing there, and the Winipeg-plant really has much, that reminds of the two 

 species: stem rather thick but the ramification as in P. filijormis; leaves narrow, 

 blunt, greyish-green; sheaths short, 15 — 20 mm, but rather dark and of strong struc- 

 ture, ligules persistent, even in the basal sheaths; peduncle short (— 60 mm) as in P. 

 vaginatus with almost overtopping leaves; spike of 4—6 approximate verticils. This 

 form should be called f. brevipes n. f. : ped. brev. — Another form, coll. by Low at 

 Fort Chimo, Labrador (hb. Haun.), with very long leaves and peduncles, I would 

 name f. longipes n. f. : ped. longiss. 



P. pamiriciis Baagöe. 



Potamogetonaceae from Asia-media in Vidensk. Medd. fra den 

 naturhist. Förening. Kjöbenhavn 1903, 182. — Fig. 6. 



In his dissertation (p. 183) Baagöe has mixed up two different 

 species. The same is the case with his assigning of names in the Mu- 

 seums of Lund and Copenhagen. The plant, gathered by O. Paulsen in 

 Pamir and namedP. pamiricus is q uite another than that collected by Robo- 

 rowsky in Kuen-Luen. This one has been foundto be a beautiful, distinct, 

 new species separated from P. pamiricus, which is very nearly allied to 

 P. filijormis and scarcely specifically separated from it. The description 

 of Baagöe meanwhile refers to Paulsen's plant from Pamir and 

 the name pamiricus consequently is to be kept for this form. A 

 plant from Thibet (hb. Lund. et Haun.), gathered by T. Thomson and 

 determined by Baagöe, pretty well corresponds to the description 

 except a couple of measure-notes. Stem about 0,5 m high, the basal Flg - 6 - p : p"'""''; 



I i > o » ens Baagöe. Leaf- 



internodes also elongated (4 — 8 cm); leaves as to length and width, »P ex . ¥■ Lacunar 



t-»-i walls and marginal 



apex and nervature like a broad-leaved P. filiformis (the Pamirplant, bundies visibie. 

 too, seemed to me to have 3-nerved leaves, Baagöe's description: 

 3 — 5-nerved, counting also the longitudinal lacunar walls?). The sheaths of the Thom- 

 son plant are 10 — 25 mm in length, those of the Paulsen plant somewhat longer, 

 especially the basal ones. Peduncle 3 — 4 cm, spike 3-verticilled, flowering 10 — 20 mm 

 long. Ripe fruit not seen. 



A träns verse section of the Thomson plant showed a central cylinder with one 

 wide air-channel, a w-endodermis and three to four cortical strands. Roborowsky's 

 plant will be described farther below. 



Distribution. Asia, Tibet occ, 12 — 15,000', T. Thomson (hb. Lund.). Baagöe 

 has given to the Mus. of Lund a »P. pamiricus-» labelled: »Asien. Pamir. In stagnis 

 prope lacu Kara-Kul, 1890. Ove Paulsen», yet evidently originating from another 

 place. 



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