4 
4, ELYNA Schrad. 
1, Spike cylindrical, linear, terminal, composed of numerous small spikelets, each 
consisting of one male and one female flower; leaves setaceous. . . E. Bellardi. 
2. Spike oblong to ovoid, composed af several spikes which again consist of small 
spikelets) leavestlinear ewaeaeeas cy ciede nee ee Ciel chee lene E. schoenoides. 
95. E. Bellardi (All.) C. Koch. 
Lge. Consp. Fl. Groenl. p. 130; Hartz, Nordést Grénl. p. 344; E. spi- 
cata Hook. Fl. bor. Am. II p. 228; Trautv., Pl. Sib. bor. p. 122: FID: 
tab. 2427; Kobresia scirpina Kjellm., Vest-Eskim. Land p.58; Meinshausen, 
Cyperac. Fl. Russl. p.275; Carex parallela Dusén, Ost-Grénl. p.54 et in sched. 
Densely tufted; culms slender, smooth, subterete, 
() (p erect, with numerous brownish fibrillose old sheaths, 
Y as long as the leaves when flowering, later longer; 
a b c : f 
leaves setaceous, green with convolute rough mar- 
Fig. 13. a, Elyna Bellardi 
(All.) €. Koch. b, Ena gins; spike cylindrical, narrow; spikelets with 
schoenoides C. A. Mey. = 
¢. Kobresia bipartita(All.) hrown scales; achene obtusely triangular some- 
sritt. (About 2 times mag- d 
aiid); what compressed, lanceolate-ovoid, with short beak. 
Am.: Port Clarence, Arctic Sea, West Greenl. c. 60°—72° (!), East 
Greenl. 70°—73° 28’ (!). As.: Mouths of the Lena and Uda, St. Lawrence 
Island. 
Geogr. area: Northern North America, Iceland, North Europe, The 
Alps, Pyrenees, Caucasus, Songaria, Turkestan, Altai, East Siberia. 
96. E. schoenoides C. A. Mey. in Ledeb., Fl. Alt. IV p. 235. 
Ledeb. Fl. Ross. IV p. 262; Trautv., Pl. Sib. bor. p. 122. 
Tufted, culms trigonous, robust, much longer than the leaves; 
leaves linear, green, with convolute margins; spike doubly compound, 
oblong or oblong-ovoid; scales obtuse, broadly obovate, blackish 
with brownish middle-vein and paler margins, the innermost with 
whitish basal-parts; achene obovoid, 3-angular, grayish-brown with 
rather long beak. 
As.: Mouth of the Lena, Chukches Land. 
Geogr. area: Caucasus, Altai, Himalaya, East Siberia. 
5. KOBRESIA Willd. 
97. K. bipartita (All.) Britton. 
K. caricina Willd., Lge. Consp. Fl. Groenl. p. 130; Hartz, Nordést 
Grénl. p. 344; Kjellm., Vest-Eskim. Land, p. 58; Fl. D. tab. 2426. 
Tufted, culms smooth, longer than the leayes, covered with 
brown old sheaths; leaves linear, convolute, glaucous, rough in the 
margins; spike doubly compound, subtended by a short setaceous 
leaf, oblong-ovoid, composed of several oblong spikelets, each con- 
sisting of 5—6 one-flowered spikelets; the upper male, the lower 
