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tapering into a scabrous, two-toothed beak, distinctly many-nerved, 
longer than the scales; stigmas 2. 
As.: Mouths of the Yenissei (!) and Lena, Chukches Land. 
Geogr. area: North-western North America, Hungary, East-Europe, 
Caucasus, Siberia, Himalaya. 

Fig. 18. Carex chordorrhiza Ehrh. °/g nat. size. (Spec. from Iceland). 
102. C. chordorrhiza Ehrh. 
Hook. Fl. bor. Am. II p. 211; Schmidt, Fl. Jeniss. arct. p.124; FI. 
D. tab. 1408; var. genuina Trauty. Pl. Sib. Bor. p. 123. 
Rhizome creeping, mostly somewhat obliquely ascending; culms 
erect, smooth, obtusely trigonous at the summit, longer than the 
leaves; leaves involute, scabrous at the summit; spikelets aggregated 
into an ovoid head, male at the summit; scales broader than the 
utricles, subacute; utricles plano-convex or biconyex, ovoid. strongly 
4* 
