5s 
many-nerved, as long as the scales, abruptly tapering into a faintly 
scabrous, entire beak; stigmas 2. 
Am.: Hudson Bay. <As.: Mouths of the Yenissei and Lena. 
Geogr. area: Northern North America, Iceland, North Europe, Cen- 
tral European Mountains, Spain, Northern Asia. 
Sect. II. Alatae Kiikenth., lc. p.504. Culms with leaf-less sheaths at 
the base; rhizome ceespitose or creeping; spikelets more or less aggregated ; 
margins of the utricles winged; wings at maturity somewhat involute. 
Subsect. 1. Distichae Christ, Bull. Soc. Royal. Bot., Belgique, 1885, 
p.8. Rhizome creeping, seldom czespitose; spikelets male at the base or 
male and female flowers variously intermixed; utricles subcoriaceous. 
103. C. siceata Dew., Am. Journ. Science, X p. 278, 1826. 
C. pallida C. A. Mey., Mém. prés. & Acad. Imp. de St. Petersb. p. div. 
say., 1831, p. 215, tab. VIII; Trautv. Fl. Kolym. p. 565. 
Rhizome creeping; leaves flat, short, much shorter than the 
culms; culms erect, scabrous; spikelets 4—10, rather densely arran- 
ged in two rows, lanceolate to ovoid, male at the base or at the 
summit or male and female flowers variously intermixed; scales 
ovate, light-brown with green midyein and membranous margins, 
acute, about as long as the utricles; utricles ovate, convex on the 
outer side, concave on the inner side, distinctly many-nerved with 
erose-membranous marginal wings and scabrous, two toothed rather 
long beak; stigmas 2. 
As.: Mouth of the Kolyma. 
Geogr. area: Northern North America, East Siberia, Kamchatka, 
Saghalin, Japan. 
104. C. pratensis Drej., Revis. crit. Car. bor., 1841, p. 442. 
Lge. Consp. Fl. Groenl. p. 185; Roseny. Till. p. 719; Fl. D. tab. 497. 
Cespitose; culms longer than the leaves, slender, trigonous, 
scabrous, often somewhat drooping; leaves flat, scabrous on the 
margins; lowest bract  bristle-like; spikelets 3—7, oblong or 
obovate, male at the base; scales lanceolate-ovate, acute, light- 
brown with greenish midvein and membranous margins, as long 
as the utricles; utricles convex on the outer side, concave on the 
inner side, faintly nerved, greenish, lanceolate with membranous 
marginal wings and scabrous, nearly entire beak; stigmas 2. 
Am.: West Greenl. 61° 15’—64° 48’ (1). 
Geogr. area: Northern North America. 
Subsect. 2. Ovales Kunth., Enum. PI. II, 1837, p. 384. 
Rhizome czespitose, spikelets male at the base, brown, mostly ag- 
gregated; utricles membranous. 
