A Hurvey of the Phytogeography of the Aictic American Archipelago ÖO 
Stray Contr.), Cape Vera, Simmons (1. c); North Kent, Simmons (1. c); Heiherg 
Island: Hyperite Point, Whitsunday Bay, Rens Fjord, Schei (ex Simmons 1. c); 
Big Island (in Heureka Sound), Schei (1. c); EUesmereland: very common, Hayes, 
Hart, Simmons; Goodsell (ex Rydberg, 1. c). 
Geographic area. Greenland, northern and middle parts of America and 
Asia, all o ver Europé. 
Festuca ovina is a very common plant in the Arctic Islands and probably to 
be found within every larger part of the Archipelago. The most common form is 
the var. hremfolia, which is. however, so continuously connected with the type, that 
it can get no higher rank than of a variety. The F. Richardsonii of Taylor, 1. c, 
p. 333, is this variety, but the original plant of Hooker, Fl. Bor. Amer , II, p. 
25U, has creeping shoots and comes very near to F. rubra, so as to be best placed 
as a form of that species. In Chlor. Melv., p. 31, Bbown also mentions a .Festuca 
vivipara^ in Sabine^s coUection from Melville Island. Proliferous forms certainly 
are of rare occurrence, as I have seen none. Finally I may mention that there 
are specimens without ' special locality both in the KH and in Ross' collection at 
the Linnean Society, and that Hooper has the same note about its distribution as 
about that of Hierochloé alpina. 
Distribution. North Devon : Beechey Island, Lyali> (KH)?; Ellesmei 
, Greely (Rep., II, p. 15). ^ ^ ^ America and Asia 1 
In nfy /lora Ellesm. I entered F. rubra as doubtful because Grekl 
ot thelrcti! ll3s!"noTwithrandinrthe 'existence in the Kew herbarium o 
,Beeohey Island, July 1854, Lya... The p.ant — ^l^f nT^^^ 
Godhavn in Danish Greenland. They 
them both to come from Godhavn. A confusion 
place. This seems to me far m< 
Southern EUesmer* 
if F. Bichardson, 
e of its continuous range of 
ate regions, viz., Melville Island, Baffin Land, 
^ found north of the woodline only in Alaska 
ai iviv iN. 
36. Agropyriun violaceum, (Hornem.) Lange. 
Triticum repens var. purpureum, Hookek. Coll. 
Distribution. Victoria Land: Minto Inlet, Anderson (KH); EUesmereland: 
Discovery Harbour in Lady Franklin Bay, Greely (Rep.). 
Geographic area. Greenland, arctic, and mountams of western ISorth 
America, Arctic Siberia, mountains of northern Europé 
In my Flora Ellesm. I mentioned, that I had found no specimens m the 
London collections. There are, however. several frön. R.chardbok, Rae, and others 
at Kew. and as with this A. no/aceum 
be rather common on the shores 
