59 
Lundstr., Noy. Seml. p. 316; Kjellm., Sib. Nordk. Fanerogamfl. p. 276, 
St. Lawrence-6n p. 22, Vest-Eskim. Land p.57; Fl. D. tab. 2430; C. ursina, 
Hartz, Nordést Gronl. p. 345; Rosenv., Till. p. 718 ex parte, non Dewey. 
Densely cespitose; culms slender, adscending or decumbent, 
a little scabrous: leaves narrow, c. 1 mm. broad, mostly plicate, glau- 
cous; spikelets about 3, aggregated, ovoid or globose, only the 
terminal one male at the base, clup-shaped; scales brown with paler 
midvein and margins, mostly acule, about as long as the utricles; 
utricles ovate, brown, plano-convex or biconyex (outer side always 
more convex than the inner side), distinctly many-nerved, with short, 
smooth beak with a fissure on the outer side; stigmas 2. Coast- 
species. 
Am.: Port Clarence, Cumberland Gulf, 
Labrador, West Greenl. 60°—74° 15’ (!), East 
Greenl. 60°—63° (!), 65° 35’, 70°—71° (1, Hartz, 
as C.ursina). Eur.: Spitsbergen (!), Novaya 
Zemlya to 74° (!), Kolguey, Dolgoi Island, 
Samoyede Land. As.: Irkaipi, Pittlekaj, 
Chukches Land, St. Lawrence Island. 
Geogr. area: Unalashka, Coasts of 
Northern North America, Iceland, North 
Europe, Kamchatka. 
112. C. ursina Dew. 
2 Fig. 29. Carex ursina Dew. °/, nat. size. 
Hook. Flor. bor. Am. II p. 211, tab. 210; (Spec. from West Greenland). 
Lge. Consp. Fl. Groenl. p. 287; Dusén, Ost- 
Gronl. p.55; Nath., Spetsb. Karlv. p. 35; Kjellm. & Lundstr., Nov. Seml. 
p. 316; Kjellm., Sib. Nordk. Fanerogamfl. p. 275; Fl. D. tab. 2429. 
Densely czespitose; culms low, adscending or decumbent, smooth, 
mostly shorter than the leaves; leaves plicate or involute, scabrous 
on the margins, at the summit trigonous; mostly one terminal, 
globose spike with male flowers at the base (rarely a little female 
spikelet from the lowest bract); scales shorter than the utricles, 
obtuse, dark-brown with paler midvein and margins; utricles broadly 
ovate, pale, biconvex, faintly nerved, nearly beak-less; stigmas 2. 

Coast-species. 
Am.: Arctic Coasts, West Greenl. 69° 30’—70° 47’ (!), East Greenl.: 
Hurry Inlet at 71° (!). Eur.: Spitsbergen (!), Novaya Zemlya to 73° (1), 
Waigats. <As.: Bjeli Ostrow (!), Preobrascheni. 
Geogr. area: Coasts of Arctic North America. 
Sect. IV. Astrostachyae Th. Holm, Am. Journ. Science, XI, 1901, 
p. 215. Spike terminal solitary, dioecious or monoecious (Subsect. Dioicae 
Tuckerm., |. c. p.7, ex parte) or more spikelets more or less remote, male 
at the base (Subsect. Stellulatae Kunth, 1. c. p. 399, ex parte); utricles 
