41 
Note. We think it a mistake of Mr. Hart to indicate this species from 
Greenland, none of the many other botanists and collectors who have visited 
Greenland, having found it. 
88. E. callithrix Chamisso in C. A. Meyer, Mém. prés. & lAcad. 
de St. Petersb. par div. say., 1831, p. 203, tab. II. 
Ledeb. Fl. Ross. IV p. 254; Kjellm., As. Beringss. p. 564, Vest-Eskim. 
Land p. 58; Kjellm. & Lundstr., Nov. Semlja p. 316; Feilden, Nov. 
Zemlya p. 21; Rothr., Fl. of Alaska p. 457; Fl. D. Suppl. tab. 122; E. capi- 
tatum 6, Hook. Fl. bor. Am. II p. 231. 
Tufts small with few culms; culms terete; bracts nearly non- 
inflated: scales grayish-black, not membranous, long-pointed, nar- 
rower than by E. vaginatum, the lower much larger than the upper; 
anthers small, obovate, much shorter than the filaments; bristles 
white with a reddish tinge. 
Am.: Port Clarence (!). Eur.: Dolgoi Island, Waigats (!), Novaya 
Zemlya, Habarowa. As.: Mouth of the Yenissei (!}, Taimyr Peninsula 
73° 45’ (Middendorf as E. vaginatum!), Chukches Land (!), St. Lawrence 
Island. 
Geogr. area: Northern Scandinavia, Russia and Siberia. 
89. E. Scheuchzeri Hoppe. 
Rothr., Fl. of Alaska p. 457; Peary, Auxil. Exp. App. C. p. 7; Cornell 
party, Peary Voy. 1896, p. 419; Lge. Consp. Fl. Groenl. p. 1S9 and p. 286; 
Hartz, Nordést Groénl. p. 344; Nath., Spetsb. Karly. p. 37; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. 
IV p. 253; Blytt, Bidrag p.19; Trautv. Fl. Taimyr p. 23, Consp. Fl. Nov. 
Zeml. p. 81, Fl. Kolym. p.564, Pl. Sib. bor. p. 121; Pl. Ross. aret. p. 551 
and p.o94, Syll. Pl. Sib. bor. orient. p.537; Feilden, Fl. of Kolguey p. 184, 
Nov. Zemlya p. 21; Schmidt, Fl. Jeniss. arct. p. 123; Kjellm. & Lundstr., 
Noy. Semlja p. 316; Kjellm., Sib. Nordk. Fanerogamfl. p. 276, As. Beringss. 
p. 965, St. Lawrence-6n p. 22; E. capitatum Hook. Fl. bor. Am. II p. 231; 
Taylor, Pl. coll. at Davis Str. and Baff. Bay p. 84; Fl. D. tab. 1502; E. ca- 
pitatum and var. Scheuchzeri, Hart, Brit. Pol. Exped. p. 242. _ 
Rhizome creeping with solitary culms; culms with non-inflated 
sheaths; flowering spike obovate: scales dark-gray or dark-brown, 
not membranous except a narrow margin, long-pointed; the 1—3 
lowermost much larger than the other; anthers small, obovate- 
lanceolate, many times shorter than the filaments; bristles brightly 
white. 
Common in the Arctic regions. Am.: Arctic Coast and Islands (!), 
Big Island in Hudson Strait, West Greenl. 60°—82° (), East Greenl. 60°— 
74° (!). Eur.: Spitsbergen (!), Kolguev, Dolgoi Island, Novaya Zemlya to 
74° (!), Waigats (!), Habarowa (Fisher in litt... As.: Arctic Coast (!) and 
Islands, New-Siberian Islands, Mouths of the Yenissei (!), Lena (!) and 
Kolyma, Chukches Land. 
Geogr. area: Northern North America, Iceland, Scandinavia, Russia, 
Central European Mountains, Siberia. 
