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Am.: St. Lawrence Island, Port Clarence, Kotzebue Sound, Arctic 
Coast and Islands, Baffin Land, Grinnell Land to 82° 27’, West Greenl. 
60°—76°7'(!), East Greenl. 65° 35’ and 70°—75° (!). Eur.: Spitsbergen (‘), 
King Charles Land, Franz Josef Archipelago to 80° 16’ (Fisher, in litt.) 
Beeren Island, Novaya Zemlya to 75° (!), Waigats (!), Habarowa, Dolgoi 
Island. As.: Arctic Coast (!), Mouths of the Yenissei and Lena, New Si- 
berian Islands, Taimyr Peninsula (!), Chukehes Land (\). 
Geogr. area: Northern Canada, Iceland, Feerdées, Scotland, Northern 
Seandinavia, Northern Russia, Northern Siberia. 
55. J. trifidus L. 
Lge. Consp. FI. Groenl. p. 123; Hartz, Nordést Groénl. p. 343; Ledeb. 
Fl) Ross. IV, p. 233: 
Culms erect 5—25 cm. high, tufted, from matted creeping rhi- 
zomes, covered with sheaths at the base and with 2—3 leaves in 
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the upper part, Leaves setaceous exceeding the sessile 1—3-flowered 
head. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, brown, longer than the 
oboyate, dark brown, shining capsule; beak pointed. 
Basal leaves varying from mucronate to more or less evident 
blade-bearing. 
Am.: West Greenl. 60°—69° 45’ (!), East Greenl. 60°—71° (). Eur.: 
Samoyede Land. 
Geogr. area: Northern North America, Iceland, Farées, Scotland, 
Northern Scandinavia, Finland and Russia, The Alps, Central European 
Mountains, Caucasus, Ural- and Baikal-Mountains. 
56. J. squarrosus L. 
Lge. Consp. Fl. Groenl. p. 124. 
Densely tufted. Basal leaves numerous, 10—30 cm. long, sprea- 
30 cm. high 
leafless. Flowers solitary, panicled, panicle-branches upright rigid, 

ding, tenacious, narrow, channelled. Stem rigid, 15 
bracts yellowish-white membranous, sepals lanceolate, 5 mm. long, 
pale brown, shining, broadly white membranous at the margin, as 
long as the ovate obtuse capsule. 
Am.: West Greenl. 60°—60° 30’ (!), East Greenl. 60°—60° 28’ (!). 
Geogr. area: Feerées, Europe, Western Siberia. 
57. J. bufonius L. 
Lge. Consp. FI. Groenl. -p. 125. 
Annual. Stem 2—5 cm. high, branched, from the base diffuse, 
leafy. Flowers solitary or seldom 2—4 together. Sepals about 
5 mm. long, lanceolate, acuminate, green, white membranous at 
the margin, about as long as the narrow oblong obtuse, chestnut- 
coloured capsule. 
Am.: West Greenl. Igaliko at 61° 2’ (1). 
Geogr. area: All over the Earth, following cultivation. 
