394 



205* C. alpina Swartz. 



Caespitosa; rhizom. elongato descendente teuui, inter- 

 (him brevissimo, fihrillis nuinerosis tenuilms multiramosis; 

 culmis strictis tenuibus firm is 18 — 2 poll, altis acute tri- 

 angulis striatis plerumqnc ad angulos superne serrulato- 

 geabridis, basin versus foliatis; foliis mollibus jtaete viri- 

 dibus (raro glaueeseentibus) remotiusculis eulmo multo 

 brevioribus acuminatis planis lineam eire. latis superne 

 marginibus serratis; spicwlis 3—2 arete confertis 2 { j- 2 — 

 3 f /i Un. long. 2 — S 1 /^ lin. lak, terminal! gynaeeandra 

 ovali floribus paucis masculis > foemineis ilia parum 

 miDoribus subrotundis, infiina breviss. pedunculata brae- 

 tea brevi lineari-setacea evaginata munita, interdum parum 

 remota; squamis parvis lato-ovatis acutis nninerviis atro- 

 sanguineis (raro ferrugineis) concoloratis opacis, interdum 

 raargine an gusto hyalino pallido; utrieulis squama saepiss. 

 multo longioribus, Vj± — IVg Hn. long., obovatis v. subor- 

 biculatis abrupte rostellatis, aut ellipsoideis utrinque atte- 

 nuatis, parum compressis et antice et postice subangulato- 

 convexis, enerviis, subplicatis applanato- granulans luteo- 

 rufeseentibus pallidisve , margine acutiusculo plerunique 

 serrato- v. denticulato-scabris, ore leniter emarginato ; ca- 

 ryopsi laxe incltisa obovato-triaTigulari obtusa, styli basi 

 aequali apiculata, dense punetulata stramineo-pallida. 



C. alpina Swartz in Liljebl. Sw, Flora ed. II (1798). 

 Wahlb. Fl. Lappon. 241. — Boott, 112. t. 356, 357, — 

 C. Vahlii Schk. f. 94 et 154. — Rchb., I 588. 



Groenlandia, Lapponia. Norvegia. Femiia. Sibiria 

 altaiea, baicalens. Tyrolis, 



£. Infnscata; major; culmo J /^— IVrP^dali; spiculis 

 3—5 majoribus 3—6 lin. long. 2 ] /2 Un* latis; squamis 



