75 
tab. 1530; C. reducta Drej., l.c. p. 453; Lge. Consp. FI. Groenl. p. 141; 
Fl. D. tab. 2977; C. Drejeriana f. cuspidata Roseny., Till. p. 722. 
In Arctic regions the forms of this very 
variable species are low; rhizome creeping; 
culms low, smooth; leaves flat or with invo-  \ 
lute margins, as long as or longer than the _ 
culms; bracts leafy, the lowest mostly longer 
than the culm; male spikelets 1—2, female 
spikelets 1—4, erect, stalked, mostly lax-flo- 
wered and thin; scales light or darker brown 
with paler midvein, acute or obtuse, longer 
than the nerve-less utricles; stigmas 2. 
The most common form in Arctic re- 
gions is var. subspathacea (Wormsk.): only few 
em. high; leaves with inyolute margins; male 
spikelet 1, female spikelets 2, few- flowered 
(1—3-flowered); scales light-brown, obtuse, en- 
closing the utricles. But also taller forms with 





acute scales and many-flowered spikelets occur | 
(at least in the most southern part of Green- 
land) and such a form has L. K. Rosenvinge 
named C. Drejeriana, f. cuspidata. 











Common on the shores of the whole Arctic Oce- 
an. Am.: Kotzebue Sound, Hudson Bay, West Greenl. \ | 
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60°—70° ( (!), East Greenl. 60°--61°9 (!), 65°35’ (), 70°— 
74° 40’ (). Eur.: Spitsbergen 1, Novaya Zemlya HWW 













to 74° (), Shores of the White Sea (!), Kolguev, Wai- FU 
gats, Habarowa (Fish.,in litt.). As.: Yalmal, Mouth of i 
the Lena, Preobrascheni Bay (!), St. Lawrence Island. I 
Geogr. area: Coasts of the Northern North 

America, Iceland, Fierées, Scotland, Scandinavia, 
Finland, Northern Russia and Siberia. 
Subsect. 5. Cryptocarpae Tuckerm., l.c. p.11. 
Rhizome creeping, without (or seldom with) leaf- 
less sheaths above the leaves from the foregoing WS 

year; leaves broad with revolute margins; scales 
of the female spikelets elongated; spikelets long- 
stalked and drooping; sea-shores and marshes. 
130. C. Lyngbyei Hornem., Fl. D. tab. 1888 — 
(1827), (vidi spec. orig.). Fig. 49. Carex salina Wg. forma 
(C DEI ence Lge, f. cuspidata 
’ ery ve ‘ % / , 7 99GB < Z Rosenv.). 7/; nat. size. (Spec. 
C. cryptocarpa C. A. Mey., |. c. p. 226, tab. 14 estan West Geeulanid. 
(1831); Lge. Consp. FI. Groenl. p. 143; Kjellm., 
Vest-Eskim. Land p.57; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. IV p. 313; C. filipendula Drej., 
Revis. crit. Car bor. p. 464; Fl. D. tab. 2371, 2372; C. capillipes Drej., 
l.c. p. 468 (vidi spec. orig.); Fl. D. tab. 2844. 
