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Eur.: Kolguev. 
Geogr. area: Northern North America, Iceland, British 
and Central Europe, Northern Siberia, Saghalin. 
Sect. II. Microrrhynchae Drejer, Symbolae Caric. p. 9. 
Bracts not sheathing; spikelets cylindrical, more or less 
dense-flowered; utricles smaller, plano-convex, nearly beak- 
less: stigmas 2. 
Subsect. 1.  Caespitosae Fries, Summa Veget. p. 226. 
Culms czespitose, with leaf-less sheaths between the green 
leaves and the leaves from the foregoing year (Aphyllopo- 
dae); spikelets short-stalked, erect; leaves with revolute 
margins; marshes. 
124. C. caespitosa L. 
Hook. Fl. bor. Am. II p.217; Ledeb. FI. Ross. IV p.310; 
Fl. D. tab. 2547; var. typica Trautv. Fl. rip. Kolym. p. 566. 
Ceespitose without stolons; culms erect, trigonous 
with sharp, scabrous edges, as long as or longer than 
the leaves; sheaths red-brown, shining; _ leaf-less 
sheaths between the green leaves on the culms and 
the remainders of leaves from the foregoing year; 
leaves flat with revolute margins; terminal spikelet 
male; female spikelets 2—8, short-cylindrical, very 
short-stalked; bracts small, bristle-like, shorter than 
the culms; scales obtuse, blackish with red-brown 
midvein, a little shorter than the nerve-less utricles; 
stigmas 2. 
Am.: Kotzebue Sound, Arctic shores. As.: Mouth of 
the Kolyma. 
Geogr. area: Northern North America, British Isles, 
North and Central Europe, Siberia to Kamchatka. 
Obs. We have seen no specimens from the Arctic regions 
and have mentioned the species on the authority of Hooker and 
Ledebour; but as we have seen specimens from the northern Bri- 
tish North America, we should think that it also is to be found 
in the Arctic regions. 
125. C. stricta Good. 
Ledeb. Fl. Ross. IV p.311; Feilden, Fl. of Kolguev 
p. 184; Fl. D. tab, 2548. 
Ceespitose without stolons; culms stout, erect, 
trigonous with scabrous edges, longer than the leaves; 
sheaths straw-coloured with fibrillose margins; leaf- 
less sheaths as in the foregoing species; leaves flat with 
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Fig. 40. Carex 
caespitosa L. 
2/3 mat. size. 
(Spec. from 
Denmark). 
