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105. C. Macloviana D’Urv., Mem. Soc. Linn. Paris, IV p.599, 1826. 
Kiikenthal, Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 27, 1900, p. 505; C. festiva Dew., Lge. 
Consp. Fl. Groenl. p. 134; Hartz, Nordést Groénl. p. 345; FI. D. tab. 2367. 
Ceespitose, culms longer than the leaves, rigid, stout, trigonous 
with sharp, scabrous edges; leaves flat, broad; spikelets densely 
aggregated into a globose head, male at the base; scales ovate, 
acute or subacute, dark-brown with whitish membranous margins, 
a little shorter than the utricles; utricles convex on the outer side, 
concave on the inner side, many nerved, ovate, brown, with mem- 
branous marginal wings and two-toothed, scabrous beak. 
Am.: West Greenl. 60°—70° (!), East Greenl.: Gaaseland at ec. 70° 20’ (!). 
Geogr. area: Unalashka, Northern North America, Southern South 
America, Tierra del Fuego and Falkland Islands, Iceland, Finmark and 
Lapland, Kamchatka. 
Sect. III. Verae Tuckerm., |.c. p. 10, ex maxima parte. Czespitose; 
spikelets aggregated or separated, male at the base; utricles not winged 
nor spongy at the base, with short beak or nearly beak-less. 
Subsect. 1. Canescentes Fries, 1. c. p. 72 ex parte. Spikelets distinctly 
separated, mostly pale or light-brown; utricles nearly beak-less. 
106. C. canescens L. 
Lge. Consp. Fl. Groenl. p. 289; Rosenv., Till. p. 719; var. robusta, 
Lge. l.c. p.136 and p. 289; Rosenv., lc. p.719; Macoun, Catalogue IV 
p. 123; Fl. D. tab. 285; C.curta Hook. Fl. bor. Am. II p. 214. 
Czespitose, culms erect, trigonous with sharp, scabrous edges; 
leaves flat, c. 2 mm. broad, bright-green, scabrous on the margins; 
spikelets 3—8, oblong-ovoid or elliptic, with scale-like bracts; the 
upper one and sometimes some of the others male at the base, the 
others female; scales broadly ovate, obtuse or subacute, light-brown 
or pale with greenish midvein, shorter than the utricles; utricles 
loosely appressed, ovate, faintly nerved, plano-convex, pale or 
light-brown, scabrous on the margins at the top, without fissure 
on the outer side, nearly beak-less; stigmas 2. 
Am.: Arctic Sea-coast, West Greenl. 60°—67° (!), East Greenl. 60°— 
61° 32 (!). 
Geogr. area: Northern North America, Argentina, Tierra del Fuego, 
Falkland Islands, Iceland, Most parts of Europe, Caucasus, Northern 
Asia, Himalaya, Japan. 
C. canescens L. & lagopina Wg., Kihlman in Soc. p. Fauna et 
Flora Fennica, 1889, p. 10. 
C. helvola Blytt apud Fries, Botan. Notiser 1849; Roseny., Till. p.719; 
Fl. D. Suppl. tab. 32. 
Intermediate between the parents, sterile; mostly the spikelets 
