80 
mostly 2, the lower sometimes remote from the upper, basal, long- 
stalked and with a leafy bract; scales obtuse, blackish-brown with 




Fig. 55. Carex bicolor All. */; nat. size. Fig. 56. Carex panicea L. ®/s nat. size. 
(Spec. from Arctic Norway). (Spec. from West Greenland). 
pale midyein, a little shorter and broader than the utricles; utricles 
elliptic, biconvex, white, nerve-less or very faintly nerved, papillose, 
nearly without beak; stigmas 2. 
Am.: West Greenl. 61°—69° (!) and 70° 30’. 
Geogr. area: Labrador, Iceland, Arctic and Alpine North Europe, 
Central European Mountains, Siberia (Olenek). 
