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Subsect. 2. Paniceae Tuckerm., lc. p.15. Rhizome creeping; larger 
species with globose or rounded-trigonous, beaked utricle; beak short, 
entire, often curved; terminal spikelet male; stigmas 3. 
134. C. panicea L. 
Fl. D. tab. 261; C. panicea, v. tumidula Leest., Lge. Consp. Fl. Groenl. 
p. 149; Roseny., Till. p. 292; Fl. D. tab. 3048; C. phaeostachya Hook. FI. 
bor. Am. II p. 226, excl. Syn. C. subspathacea. 
Rhizome with stolons; 
culms erect; leaves flat, glau- 
cous, scabrous on the mar- 
gins; leaves on the culms 
somewhat shorter than those 
on the sterile shoots, sheath- 
ing, blades 5—10 cm. long; 
bracts sheathing, the sheath 
of the lower shorter than 
the blade; terminal spikelet 
male, erect, oblong; female 
spikelets mostly 2, erect, 
stalked, cylindrical, rather 
lax-flowered; scales broadly- 
ovate, obtuse or acuminate, 
dark-brown, shorter than LEE 
the utricles; utricles infla- 7 
ted, obovoid-globose, faintly 
few-nerved, very finely papil- 
lose (only visible with the 
lens), tapering into a very 
short, rounded and smooth, 
somewhat oblique beak with 
entire or faintly emarginate 
orifice; stigmas 3. Fig. 57. Carex sparsiflora (Wg.) Steud. 2/; nat. size. 
Am.: West Greenl. 60°— (Spec. from Iceland). 
61° 30’ (1). 
Geogr. area: Northern North America, Iceland, Ferées, Most 
parts of Europe, Caucasus, Siberia, Turkistan, Altai, Kamchatka. 
135. C. sparsiflora (Wg.) Steud. 
C. panicea 6, sparsiflora Wg. Fl. Lappon., 1812, p. 236; C. vaginata 
Tausch.; Trauty. Pl. Sib. bor. p. 126, Fl. rip. Kolym. p. 566; Schmidt, FI. 
Jeniss. arct. p. 124; Kjellm., As. Beringss. p. 562, Vest-Eskim. Land p. 57; 
Hook. Coll. of Arctic Pl. p. 123; Feilden, Fl. of Kolguey p.184; FI. D. 
Suppl. tab. 27; C. panicea, y. pelia, Scheutz, Pl. vase. Jeniss. p. 178. 





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