Am.: West Greenl. 60°—61° (!), East Greenl. 60° 4". Eur.: Samoyede 
Land. 
Georgr. area: Northern North America, Iceland, North and Central 
Europe, Northern Asia, Patagonia. 
48. J. balticus Dethard. ap. Willd. 
Ledeb. Fl. Ross. IV p. 222; Schmidt, Fl. Jeniss. arct. p. 123; J. glaucus 
R. Br. in Richardson, Bot. App. p.11 (non Ehrh., sec. Fr. Buchenau: Monogr. 
Junc. p. 217); J. balticus v. pacificus Engelm. Rev. June. p. 442; J. Le- 
sueurii Bol., Fr. Buchenau 1. ¢. p. 220; J. arcticus vy. Sitchensis Engelm. 1. ec. 
p. 445; J. balticus v. Haenkei Fr. Buchenau I. c. p. 215; J. arcticus Hook. 
Fl. Bor. Am. II p. 189 (exe. 6). 
Stems 30—60 cm., rising from the far creeping rhizome, rigid, 
leafless, with leafless sheaths at the base. Inflorescence apparently 
lateral, compound many-flowered, with a long involucral leaf, 
about half as long as the stem. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, the outer 
sharp-pointed, the inner obtuse, mucronate, about as long as the 
elliptical, obtuse and mucronate capsule. Sheaths, sepals, and cap- 
sule chestnut-brown. 
a, europaeus Engelm. |.c. p.441. Sepals as long as the shortly 
mucronulate capsule, twice as long as the stamens; anthers and 
filaments about of equal length. 
6, littoralis Engelm. |.c. p.442. Sepals somewhat shorter than the 
long, mucronate capsule, only a little longer than the stamens; anthers 
large three or four times longer than the filaments. Stem slender. 
7, Haenkei (E. Mey.) Fr. B. 
J. arcticus y. Sitchensis Engelm. I. ec. 
Sepals linear-lanceolate, somewhat shorter than the oblong- 
obovate, shortly mucronate capsule, anthers and filaments about 
of equal length. Inflorescence short and dense. 
6, Lesueurii (Bol.). 
J. balticus, subsp. pacificus Engelm. I. c. 
Plant large, about a metre high, inflorescence large, compound. Se- 
pals lanceolate, about as long as the capsule, twice as long as the 
stamens; anthers large, three or four times as long as the filaments. 
«, Am.: West Greenl. very rare, only found on two spots at 60° 15’ 
and 64° 45’ (!). Eur.: Samoyede Land. As.: Mouth of the Yenissei. 
B, Am.: Arctic Sea-coast (?). 
7, Coasts of the Bering Sea on both sides. 
6, Am.: Norton Sound. 
Geogr. area: @, Iceland, Ferées, Scandinavia, British Islands, Hol- 
land, Denmark, North coast of Germany’, Russia, Finland. 6, North 
America on the Atlantic coast, at the Canadian lakes and the upper 
