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globose, biconvex or obtusely trigonous, faintly papillose, pale or 
blackish above; beak very short with entire orifice; style after flower- 
ing mostly exceeding the orifice and persistent; stigmas 3, seldom 2. 









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Fig. 31. Carex alpina Sw. 2/3 nat. size. Fig. 32. Carex holostoma Drej. */; nat. size. 
(Spee. from Iceland). (Spec. from West Greenland). 
Am.: Arctic America, West Greenl. 60°—62° (!), East Greenl. c. 60° (!). 
Geogr. area: Unalashka, Northwestern North America, Labrador, 
Arctic Scandinavia (according to C. B. Clarke). 
117. C. podocarpa R. Br. in Richardson, Append., Franklin Voy. 
p. 36. 1823. 
Hook. Fl. bor. Am. II p. 224, tab. 224; Bailey, Mem. Torrey Bot. 
Club. I, 1889, p. 68; Kjellm., As. Beringss. p. 562, Vest-Eskim. Land p. 56, 
