“76 
Rhizome creeping; culms rather high, often robust, trigonous 
with sharp, but mostly smooth edges; leaves long and broad with 
revolute margins, green; bracts long and broad, as 
long as the culms; male spikelets 2 
female spikelets 2—4, short cylindrical, long-stalked, 
mostly drooping; scales 

3, yellow-brown; 
3-nerved, acuminate 
with elongated mid- 
vein, spreading, light- 
or dark-brown with 
paler midvein, longer 
than the faintly nerved 
utricles; stigmas 2. 




Am.: Kotzebue Sound, 
West Greenl. 60°—61° (!). 
‘Geogr. area: Nor- 
thern North America, 
Iceland, Feerées, Nor- 
way (rare), Kamchatka, 
Saghalin, Coasts of the 
Sea of Okhotsk. 









C. Lyngbyei Hornem. 
< rigida Good. 
C. haematolepis Drej., 
Revis. crit. Car. bor. p. 
462 (vidi spec. orig.); 
Fl. D. tab. 2370; non 
Auctt. scandinay. 
Tall and stout with 
strong stolons; leaves 
broad with revolute 
margins; male spike- 
lets 1—2; female spi- 
kelets 2—8, cylindrical, 
lax-flowered, stalked, but erect; scales large, blackish- 
brown, acute, enclosing the utricles; achenes not deve- 
loped. Intermediate between the parents. 
Am.: West Greenl. 60°—61° (!). 
Geogr. area: Iceland (!). Fig. 51. Carex 
Lyngbyet Hornem. 
X rigida Good. (C. 
ha P - hematolepis Drej.). 
Subsect. 6. Rigidae Fries, l.c. p. 232. Rhizome cree- %/s nat. size. (Spec. 
3 : . fe 9 from West Green- 
ping, culms low, sheaths as in subsect. 2; leaves broader dana) 



























Fig. 50. Carex Lyngbyei Hornem. 2/; nat. size. 
(Spec. from Iceland.) 

