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an ascertained fact, it would be of a very great interest as an instance of a species, distributed in 
Europé and reaching westward not only to Greenland — as is known in a not inconsiderable 
number of cases — but even farther west, a manner of distribution hardly as yet unobjectionably 
only an error in writing, supposing Taylor to have put in the name of »alpinum» in stead of 
>Selago.. 
Monocotyledoneae. 
Gramineae, Juss. 
9. Hierochloe alpina, (Liljebl.) Roem. & Schult. 
Savastana alpina, Rowlee & Wikgänd, Cornell list. 
Distribution. Victoria Land: south coast, Rae (K H); [Boothia Felix?, John 
Ross (NHM)]; Nortli Somerset, J. C. Ross (ex Hooker, App. Parrt III); [Melville 
Peninsula: .Repulse Bay, Parry (NHM), Hoopee (LS), Igloolik (NHM), south shore 
of Fury and Hecla Strait (CH), Parry; Southampton Island: Duke of Yorks Bay, 
HooPER (L8)J; Baffin Land: Big Island in Hudson Strait, Tarr (ex Rowlee & 
WiEGAND, 1. c), Cumberland Gulf at Kingnait, Taylor (NHM, KH), and other 
places, Taylor (Fl Baff.), Kumlien (Plants), Giese and Boas (ex Ambronn, Kingua), 
Cape Haven, Schuchert & White (ex Holm, Cat.), Kivitung, Boas (ex Ambeonn, 
1. c), Ponds Bay, Borden (CH), Walker (ex Hooker, Exp. Fox), Exeter Fjord, 
Taylor (KH); Melville Island, J. C. Ross, Sabine (NHM), herb. Teevelyan (KH) i); 
North Devon: Cape Warrender, J. C. Ross (ex Hooker, App. Parry III), »between 
Beechey Island and Northumberland Sound», Lyall (KH); Ellesmereland : three 
locahties in the Archaean region. Hart, Wetherill, Simmons. 
Geographic area. Greenland. uorthernmost parts of America, mountains 
of New England, eastern, arctic, and mountains of central Asia, northern Europé, 
Australia, New Zealand. 
Besides the specimens noted above there is one in the NHM from Parry 's 
third voyage, most probably from Cape Warrender, and one in the KH, labelled 
»Lancaster Sound, Walker», probably from Ponds Bay. The indications of Mår- 
tens, Ueberblick, p. 19, for Port Bowen or Beechey Island most probably are wrong, 
as they are not upheld by any such records in the special papers and would place 
the species within the region of Silurian limestone. In Baffin Land this grass 
seems, according to Taylor and Ambronn, to be very common, and Hooper has 
noted: »abundant in any part of the Arctic Regions visited by the Expedi- 
tion; most luxuriant at Duke of Yorks Bay and Repulse Bay». Northward it 
^ Speciniens labelled »Melville Island, Tkevelyan>, especially to be found in tbe CH, pro- 
bably date from Pabry's first voyage, and I ahvay^^ luive entered tiieni as above. 
