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the Scandinavian and particularly the Norwegian mountain flora contains a 

 group of species with its main center in Greenland and North America. In 

 Norway and Sweden there are a number of these very rare and exclusive 

 species such as the little yellow-flowered Draba crass if olia. A still more 

 striking example is offered by Car ex scirpoidea (Fig. 1). This species was 



Fig. 1. The only European localities of Carex scirpoidea (asterisk); Oxytropis 

 deflexa (circle with cross), and Crepis midticaulis (square) in north Norway. 



discovered in 1854 on the Soivagtind Mt. (66° 55' N. Lat.) in Nordland 

 Fylke. During the past 100 years, numerous Norwegian and Swedish 

 botanists have searched in vain for Carex scirpoidea in other localities. The 

 nearest occurrences of this species in relation to its Norwegian locality are 



