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and the upper part of the culms are straw-coloured and dry; scales 
yellow-green or straw-coloured with broad membranous margins; 
utricles ovate, nearly nerve-less; achene not developed; pollen 
nearly sterile. 
Am.: West Greenl. c. 60°—60° 30’ (!). 
Geogr. area: Iceland, Scandinavia, Finland, Scotland. 
Obs. It many be supposed that hybrids of others of these nearly allied 
species of the group Verae are to be found in the Arctic regions, as some of them, 
viz. C. brunnescens X lagopina and C. canescens X norvegica are found in Scandinavia 
and Central Europe, but these hybrids cann only be distinguished when it is 
known among which species they are growing. 
107. C. brunnescens (Pers.) Poir., Encyclop. méthod., Suppl. III, 
1813, p. 286. 
C. curta, ® brunnescens Pers., Syn. Plant. II, 1807, p. 539; C. Personii 
Sieb. in Lang, Flora XXV, 1842, p.95; C. vitilis Fries, Mant. III, 1842; 
Lge. Consp. Fl. Groenl. p.136 and p. 289; Rosenv., Till. p. 720; Fl. D. 
tab. 2973; C.helvola Lge. l.c. p. 288, non Blytt. 
Czespitose, culms slender, for the rest as the foregoing species; 
leaves flat, 1—2 mm. broad, somewhat glaucous; spikelets 4—8, 
ovate-globose, the lowest with bristle-like bract; scales light- 
brown, subacute; utricles somewhat spreading, light-brown, ovate, 
smaller, with short beak and on the outer side a fissure which has 
membranous margins, faintly nerved, scabrous on the margins. 
Nearly allied to the foregoing species. 
Am.: West Greenl. 60°—67° (!), East Greenl. 60° (!). 
Geogr. area: Northern North America, Iceland, Scandinavia, Cen- 
tral European Mountains, Ural, Northern Asia, Altai, Japan. 
108. C. norvegica We. 
Ledeb. Fl. Ross. IV p. 280; Meinshausen, Cyperac. Russl. p. 330; 
Fl. D. Suppl. tab. 103. 
Loosely cespitose; culms stout, smooth, trigonous with blunt 
edges; leaves flat, c. 2 mm. broad; spikelets 83—5, oblong or elliptic, 
the terminal one male at the base, often club-shaped; scales obtuse, 
light-brown with green midvyein, as long as and enclosing the utricles ; 
utricles ovate with very short beak and an indistinct fissure on the 
outer side, faintly nerved, smooth or a little scabrous on the mar- 
gins; stigmas 2. 
Exclusively a coast-species. 
Am.: Kotzebue Sound (!), Eschscholtz Bay. 
Geogr. area: Coasts of Northern North America, Iceland, North 
Europe, East Siberia and Kamchatka. 
