49 
Monoecious; densely ceespitose with numerous brown sheaths; 
culms low, 5—15 em. high, often curved; leaves trigonous, at the 
base channelled, as long as or longer 
than the culms, often curved. Spike 
ovoid, few-flowered, dark-brown; 
scales broader than the utricles, ob- 
tuse; utricles obtusely-trigonous with 
convex sides, somewhat scabrous on 
the margins, lanceolate-ovoid, faintly 
nerved; stigmas 2. 
Am.: Grinnell Land, Baffin Land, 
Robertson Bay, West Greenl. 60° 53 
81° 4’ (!), East Greenl. 65° 35’, 70°—74° 
40’ (!). Eur.: Spitsbergen (1). 
Geogr. area: Northern British 
North America, Iceland (rare), Northern 
Scandinavia and Finland. ( 
99. C. capitata Soland. 
Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. II p. 208; Lge. () 
Consp. Fl. Groenl. p. 132; Roseny., Till. 


Fig. 14. Carex nardina 




P ie cena ses p. 718; Scheutz, Pl. vase. Jeniss. p. 173; 
Spec. from West Green- : 
peand). Eastwood, Pl. coll. at Nome City, p.130; 
Fl. D. tab. 2060. 
Monoecious; caspitose with stiff erect culms, 10 
—30 cm. high; leaves channelled, scabrous, trigonous 
at the summit, shorter than the culms; spike ovate- 
globose; scales brown, subacute; utricles broadly 






ovate, plano-convex with smooth margins, as broad 
€ 
as or broader than the scales; stigmas 2. 
Am.: Nome City, Hudson Bay, West Greenl. 60°—71° (1), 
East Greenl. 60°—61° 32’ (!). As.: Mouth of the Yenissei. 
Geogr. area: Northern and Alpine North America, 
Argentina, Tierra del Fuego, Iceland, Northern and Alpine 
Europe and Asia. 


Subsect. 2. Foetidae Tuckerm., l.c., p.10. Rhizome 
creeping; more spikelets aggregated into a globose head, 
without bracts; male flowers at the summit; utricles 
membranous or at the base spongious-incrassated, obso- Fig. 15. Carex capi- 
letely or distinctly nerved. data Selene a7 /scet: 
size. (Spec. from 
West Greenland). 
100. C. incurva Lghtf. 
Lge. Consp. Fl. Groenl. p. 134; Roseny., Till. p. 719; Hartz, Nordost 
Gronl. p. 345; Dusén, Ost-Grénl. p.55; Kruuse, Jan Mayen, p. 301; Nath., 
Spetsb. Karly. p. 36; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. IV p. 269; Schmidt, Fl. Jeniss. arct. 
Flora Arctica. 4 

