78 
with revolute margins, often curved; bracts short, mostly shorter 
than the culms, only partly leafy; male spikelet 1; female spikelets 
9 

3, short-cylindrical, sessile or the 
lower short-stalked, erect; scales broad, 
obtuse, blackish, often with paler mid- 
vein; utricles nerve-less; stigmas 2. 
A very variable species; the typical 
form inhabits rather dry ground; in 
wet places the species becomes higher 
and more slender, the leaves longer 
and more erect and the female spike- 
lets longer and more lax-flowered: f. Bi- 
gelovii (Torr., 1824) Bail. = f. inferalpina 
Lestad., 1839; C. hyperborea Dre}. (vidi 
spec. orig.); C. Drejeriana Lge. (vidi spec. 
orig.); C.anguillata Dre}. (vidi spec. orig.). 





Common in the Arctic regions: Am.: 
Kotzebue Sound, Nome City, Arctic Shores, 
Labrador (!), Big Island in Hudson Strait, 
Baffin Land, Grinnell Land, West Greenl.: 
60°— 81° (!) Inglefield Gulf, East Greenl. 60° 
—§3°'(), 65°—35° (1), 70°—73° (), Buin 
Spitsbergen [very rare] (!), Kolguev (!), No- 
vaya Zemlya to 74° (!), Waigats (!), Haba- 
rowa, Samoyede Land. As.: Yalmal, Ac- 
tinia Bay, Mouths of the Yenissei, Boga- 
nida (!), Lena and Kolyma, Taimyr Penin- 
sula (!), New Siberian Islands, Chukches 
Land. 
Geogr. area: Northern North Ame- 
rica, Rocky Mountains, Mountains of Chile, 
Iceland, Feerées, British Isles, Scandinavia, 
Central Europe, Northern Russia, Caucasus, 
Ural, Siberia, Songoria, Altai, Himalaya. 






















Sect. III. Dactylostachyae Drejer, Sym- 
bolae Caric., p.10. Spikelets rather short, 
lax-flowered and slender; bracts shea- 
thing or not; utricles mostly coriaceous, 
often papillose, scarcely inflated, trigonous, 
with a short and straight or curved beak; 
Fig. 538. Carex rigida Good., f. Bigelovii stigmas POWERS: 
(Torr.)’Bail. 2/; nat. size. J 5 
(Specmscem) Westl Greenland): Subsect. 1. Bicolores Tuckerm., 1. ¢. 
p. 12. Small caespitose species with a 
beak-less, more or less round utricle; terminal spikelet female with male 
flowers at the base; stigmas 2. 

