61 
Cyperac. Russl. p. 304; Kunze, lc. p. 126, tab. XXXI, 2; C. dioica f. pa- 
rallela Scheutz, l.c. and C. davalliana, vy. pallida Christ apud Scheutz, 1. c. 
Dioecious or seldom monoecious; female spikelet lax-flowered ; 
female scales subacute, light- 
brown; utricles paler, horizon- 
tally curved, biconvex, lanceo- 
late-ovate; beak longer than 
in 7, smooth. 
a. Eur.: Kolguev. 
p. Am.: Arctic Coast, West 
Greenl. 60°—69° 16’ (), 81° 30’. 
y. Am.: East Greenl. 70°— 
71°(). Eur.: Spitsbergen (!), No- 
vaya Zemlya to 71° (!). 
6. As.: Mouth of the Yenis- 
sei (!). 
Geogr. area: @, Iceland, 
Feerées, North and Central Eu- 
rope, Russia. ~, Northern North 
America, (?) East Siberia and 
Kamchatka. 7, Northern Scan- 
dinavia. 06, Siberia, Altai, Kam- 
chatka, Alaska (?). 


Subgenus B. EUCAREX 
Cotton, Flor. Paris. p.744. Spi- 
kelets mostly stalked; the sexes 
commonly not mixed; the up- 
per spikelets male, the lower 
female (sometimes with male 
flowers at the summit), rarely 
the upper spikelet or all the 
spikelets female with male flo- 
wers at the base. Stigmas 2 or 3. 

Sect. I. Melananthae Drejer, 
Symbolae Caric., 1844, p.9. Spi- 
kelets clavate, bracts not or very 
shortly sheathing, scales more or Fig. 30. Carex dioica L. @, typica, to the left hand (from 
less blackish; utricles compres- Lapland); £, gynocrates (Wormsk.), to the right (from 
sed. membranous nearly beak- West Greenland) (*/; nat. size); x, 7, parallela Liestad. 
sed, Se E 
“ =: (spec. origin.); xx, @, typica, fi D rk. 
less: stigmas 3. seldom 3). spec origim.); XX. ypica, rom enmark 

Subsect. 1. Atratae Kunth, l.c. p. 431. Spikelets erect or somewhat 
drooping; the terminal one female with male flowers at the base or 
wholly male, the others female; utricles dark-coloured or straminous; 
stigmas 3, seldom 2. 
