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Var. inflata: Hayes Sound region, old Eskimo encampment at Cape 

 Viele (859). 



Distribution: Northern East Greenland, West Greenland, Arctic 

 American Archipelago, Arctic America, Hudson Bay region, Rocky 

 Mountains, Alaska, St. Lawrence Island, Land of the Ghukches, mouth 

 of the Yenissei, Baical region, Altai, Himalayas, Caucasus, Northern 

 Europe, Novaja Semlja, Spitsbergen, Central European mountains, Great 

 Britain, Faeroes, Iceland, Jan Mayen, Tierra del Fuego. 



Carex nardina, Fries. 



C. nardina, Fries, Und. Kobr. nard., et Mantissa 2, 1839; Ostenfeld, F1. Arct. ; 

 Drejer, Rev. Car. bor. ; Lange, Consp. Fl. Groenl. ; Kruuse, List E. Greenl.; 

 Nathorst, N. W. Gronl. ; Hart, Bot. Br. Pol. Exp.; Greely, Rep.; Britton 6c 

 Brown, 111. Fl.; Ledebour, Fl. Ross.; Andersson & Hesselman, Spetsb. karlv. ; 

 Hartman, Skand. Fl. ; C. Hepburnii, Boott, in Hooker, Fl. Bor. Araer. 

 Fig. Fl. Dan., T. 2365; Hooker, 1. c. 2, T. 207. 



As a synonym of C. nardina Fries records Kobresia nardina, 

 HoRNEMANN, Nom. Fl. Dan., which name has been put instead of C. 

 Bellardi, All., as T. 1529 of the Fl. Dan. was previously designed. 

 The plant here figured is, however, C. gynocrates, (Wormskj.) Drejer, 

 as this author (1, c, p. 434—36) and later Lange (Nomencl. Fl. D.) have 

 pointed out. Doubtless Wormskjold has confounded at least two dif- 

 ferent species, as certainly the specimens he sent to Fries and that in- 

 duced the latter to identify Angstrom's plant from Junkersdalen with 

 the new Greenland-sedge must have belonged to C. nardina, and 

 such also must have been the case with the specimens that Horne- 

 MANN sent to Hooker, which form part of the material for Boott's 

 C. Hepburnii. There are also specimens collected by Wormskjold in 

 the Copenhagen herbarium representing C. nardina. Drejer, 1. c, has 

 pointed out the error of Fries as to the quotations, and the latter 

 has also in Mantissa 3, corrected his statement and has excluded the 

 quotation of the above-mentioned figure, Fl. Dan., T. 1529, the original 

 of which, a specimen of C. gynocrates, lies in the Copenhagen herbarium. 



C. nardina is rather a common plant in dry, gravelly slopes and 

 ledges, where it forms large, hard tufts. The leaves and culms are 

 generally taller than in Scandinavian specimens. Flowered late, but 

 developed fruit abundantly. 



Occurrence. North coast: Floeberg Beach (Hart). Grinnell 

 Land, common according to Hart, especially mentioned as abundant 

 on Norman Lockyer Island. Hayes Sound region, common. Specimens 



