64 
(?) Meinshausen, Cyperac. Russl. p. 352; non Boeckeler in Linnzea, vol. 41 
(1877) p.165, nec. Bailey, Proc. Amer. Acad., vol. 22, 1886, p. 94, nec. 
Britton & Brown, Ill. Flora, I, p. 313, fig. 736. 
Loosely ceespitose; culms trigonous, a little scabrous above, 
about as long as the leaves; leaves flat, 2—4 mm. broad, lower 
leaves on the culms with broad and very short blade; bracts leafy, 
a little shorter than the culms, non-sheathing with auricled brown base; 
terminal spikelet male, oblong-oyoid, long-stalked; scales chestnut- 
brown, obtuse; female spikelets 2, ovoid or short-cylindrical, on 
long, capillary stalks, more or less drooping, scales dark-brown to 
blackish, obtuse (subacute) or acute, as long as the utricles; utricles 
ovate, nerve-less, pale or blackish above, with smooth margins, beak 
very short, entire or emarginate, terete; stigmas 3. 
Am.: Arctic America, Port Clarence (!). As.: Konyambay in Chuk- 
ches Land (!), St. Lawrence Island. 
Geogr. area: On both sides of the Bering Sea. 
Obs. I am following Kjellman l.c. in regarding the specimens collected 
by him at Port Clarence and Konyambay as the true C. podocarpa of R. Brown, 
and also Mr. C. B. Clarke to whom I sent a specimen from Konyambay, informs 
me that it »may be the fully developed states of C. podocarpa; he thinks it nearest 
allied to C. stylosa. It is also related to C. macrochaeta C. A. Mey., which just 
now is found at Nome City, Alaska (Eastwood, Pl. coll. at Nome City, p. 130); this 
has the female scales awned with a long mucro and larger, faintly nerved utricles; 
it has about the same geographical area. 
118. C. atrata L. 
Hook. Fl. bor. Am. II p. 216; Greely, Lady Frankl. Bay Exp. If p. 15; 
Lge. Consp. Fl. Groenl. p. 139; Roseny., Till. p. 720; Schmidt, Fl. Jeniss. 
arct. p. 124; Kurtz, Fl. d. Tschuktschenh. p. 478; Fl. D. tab. 158; C. nigra, 
Hook. Fl. bor. Am. II p. 216. 
Czespitose; culms trigonous with scabrous or smooth edges, 
9 mm. broad, scabrous on 
the margins; terminal spikelet male at the base; female spikelets 
2—5, ovoid or elliptic; the lowest mostly rather long-stalked with 
a leafy, not sheathing bract: at least some of the spikelets drooping 
at maturity; scales broadly ovate, acute, blackish-red or blackish, 
as long as the utricles; utricles plano-convex or obtusely trigonous, 
ovate, with very short entire beak, scabrous on the margins aboye, 
faintly papillose, pale or seldom blackish above, nerve-less; stigmas 3. 

longer than the Jeaves; leaves flat, 5 
Am.: Kotzebue Sound, Arctic America (?), Lady Franklin Bay (?), 
West Greenl. 60°—62° (!), East Greenl. 60°—63° (!). As.: Mouth of the 
Yenissei, Chukches Land 
Geogr. area: Northern North America (as C. atratiformis Britton), 
Iceland, Fzerées, Great Britain, North Europe, Central European Moun- 
tains, Siberia, Songoria, Altai, Himalaya. 
