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Rhizome loosely czespitose with stolons; culms erect, trigonous 
with sharp and scabrous edges, longer than the leaves; leaves flat, 
narrow, scabrous on the margins; lower bract leafy, not sheathing, 
about as long as the culm; terminal spikelet clavate, male at the base; 
female spikelets 2—38, ovoid, short-stalked, erect; scales ovate, red- or 
dark-brown with green midvein, elongated into a scabrous awn, lon- 
ger than the utricles; utricles pale, broadly elliptic, obtusely trigonous, 
papillose, distinctly nerved, with a very short beak; stigmas 3. 
Am.: West Greenl.: Isaromiut, 61° 10’ (!). 
Geogr. area: Northern North America, North and Central Europe, 
Ural, Siberia, Songoria, China, Kamchatka. 
120. G. Gmelini Hook. & Arn., Bot. of Beechey Voy. 1882, 
p. 18, tab. 27. 
Hook. Fl. bor. Am. II p. 216; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. IV p. 288; Bailey, 
Proc. Amer. Acad., 22, 1886, p. 77 
Rhizome loosely czespitose ih stolons; culms erect, trigonous 
with scabrous edges; leaves flat, scabrous on the margins; terminal 
spikelet clavate, male at the base; female spikelets 8—5, more or 
less aggregated, short-stalked; lower bract leafy, not sheathing; 
scales ovate, blackish-brown, elongated into a long hispid awn, 
longer than the utricles; utricles elliptic, smooth, faintly nerved, 
with short entire beak; stigmas 3. 
Am.: Kotzebue Sound. 
Geogr. area: Northwestern North America, East Siberia, Saghalin, 
Japan (common along the Northern Coasts of the Pacific Ocean). 
Subsect. 3. Limosae Tuckerm., l.c. p.12. Stoloniferous; female spike- 
lets drooping; terminal male; utricles mostly papillose; stigmas 3. 
121. C. magellanica Lam., Dict. de Bot. III p. 385, 1789. 
C. limosa, var. irrigua We., Kgl. Vet. Akad. Handl., 1803, p. 162 
C. irrigua Smith; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. IV p.307; Fl. D. Suppl. tab. 106. 
Stoloniferous; culms erect, slender, trigonous with sharp and 
above scabrous edges; ‘leaves flat, scabrous on the margins above, 
bright-green, 2—3 mm. broad; terminal spikelet male; female spi- 
kelets 2, dense-flowered, short, long-stalked; lower bract leafy, longer 
than the culm; scales brownish with paler midvein, ovate-lanceolate, 
acuminate, spreading, longer and narrower than the utricles; utricles 
obtusely trigonous, flattened, broadly elliptic to circular, faintly 
many-nerved, with very short entire beak. 
Eur.: Samoyede Land. 
Geogr. area: Northern North America, Chile, Patagonia, Tierra del 
Fuego, British Isles, North Europe, Central European Mountains, Siberia. 
