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Bell (ex Macoun, Cat.)]; Baffin Land: Cumberland Gulf, Kingnait, Taylok (KH. 
NHM); Melville Island, Paery, Sabine, Ross, Edwards, Beverlt. Fisher (NHM, 
KH); North Devon: between Beechey Island and Northumberland Sound, Lyall 
(KH); Ellesmereland: Faleon Cliff in Goose Fjord, Simmons. 
Geographic area. Greenland, northern North America, arctic parts of Asia 
and Europé. 
HooKER, App. Parry II, gives no localities, but most probably the specimens 
nientioned above are collected at Repulse Bay or Igloolik. 
? Ghlyceria paupercula, Holm. 
Distribution. [Mansfield Island, Bell (ex Holm, New pl.)]. 
it may be A. tenella. 
30. Atropis distans, (L.) Griseb. 
Glyceria distans, OsTENFELD, Flora Aret., Simmons, Flora Ellesm. & Stray Contr.; G. arctica, 
HooKER, Fl. Bor. Amer., Macoun, Cat., Hooker, Coil. (ex parte). 
Distribution. Baffin Land: Kekerten, Taylor (KH); Mel vdlle Island, Fisher, 
Edwards, Sabine, Graham (KH, NHM); North Devon: Beechey Island (KH, SH), 
»Wellington Channel« (KH), Lyall, West Fjord, Cape Vera, Mount Belcher, 
Simmons (Stray Contr.), Castle Island, Devils Isle, Simmons (1. c); North Kent, Sim- 
mons (1. c); Ellesmereland, common, Hart, Simmons. 
Geographic area. Greenland, arctic and western A raerica, northern and cen- 
tral Asia, Europé, North Africa. 
In the KH there are specimens from Parry's second voyage, viz., eitherfrom 
the Melville Peninsula or from Southampton Island. I have also seen specimens 
collected on the Arctic coast by Richardson and Seemann. The arctic specimens 
generally represent one of the forms described as Glyceria arctica or G. vaginafa, 
but one of Richardson'8 in the NHM is nearly typical, and others from Observa- 
tory Inlet in British Columbia I look upon as belonging to the type (NHM, KH). 
31. Atropis tenella, (Lange) m. 
Glyceria tenella, Ostenfeld, Flora Aret. 
Distribution. [Boothia Felix?, John Ross (NHM)]; Baffin Land: Cumber- 
land Gulf, Taylor (KH, as ^Foa cenisia, All.?»), Kekerten, Taylor, (NHM, as .Poa 
angufttata, Br.»). 
Geographic area. Greenland, Arctic Labrador (Chidley Peninsula, M'Gre- 
gor), Nowaja Semlja. 
The doubt about the specific rank of this plant, expressed in my Plants NW 
Greenl., p. 99, I still feel, but I think it best to keep it as a species in the hope 
that it may be looked up in more localities, so as to throw some light over the 
rather enigmatical distribution it now shows. 
