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Rhizome with stolons; culms erect; leaves flat, bright-green: 
leaves on the culms much shorter than those on the sterile shoots, 
sheathing, blades only 1,5—38 cm. long, evenly passing into the 
bracts; blade of the bracts shorter than the sheaths; male spike- 
let 1; female spikelets mostly 2, narrow-cylindrical, lax- and rather 
few-flowered; the lower often remote; scales 
brownish with pale or greenish midvein, obtuse or 
subacute; utricles non-inflated, ovoid or ellipsoid, 
nerve-less, smooth (not papillose), tapering into a 
rather short, rounded, smooth, oblique beak with 
obliquely cut orifice; stigmas 3. 
Nearly allied to the foregoing species. 
Am.: Port Clarence. Eur.: Kolguev. As.: Mouths 
of the Yenissei (!), Lena and Kolyma. 
Geogr. area: Iceland, North Europe, Central 
European Mountains, East Siberia, Kamchatka. 
Sect. IV. Sphaeridiophorae Drejer, 1. c. p. 9. 
Terminal spikelet male, female spikelets short, ovate to 
globose, mostly aggregated, seldom one terminal spike ; 
utricles rounded, firm in texture, hairy ; beak short, often 
two-toothed; bracts not or shortly sheathing; stigmas 3. 
Subsect. 1. Filifoliae Tuckerm., l.c. p. 8. Spike 
terminal solitary, male at the summit or dioecious; 
ceespitose. 








136. C. scirpoidea Michx. 
Macoun, Catalogue IV p.112; Taylor, Pl. coll. at 
Davis Str. and Baff. Bay p.85; Peary, Auxil. Exp. 
App. C. p.7; Lge. Consp. Fl. Groenl. p.132 and p. 287; 
Roseny., Till. p. 718; Hartz, Norddst Groénl. p. 345; 
Hook. Bot. App. to Parry’s 2 voyage p. 405; Kjellm., 
Vest-Eskim. Land p.57, As. Beringss. p.568; Eastwood, 
Pl. coll. at Nome City, p. 130; C.Wormskioldiana FI. 
D. tab. 1528; C. podocarpa Kurtz, Fl. d. Tschuktschenh. 
Fig. 58. Carex scirpoidea p.479 (according to spec. in Herb. Engler), non R. Br. 
Michx. °/g nat. size. (Spec. 
Rion HastiGreeniand)s Loosely czespitose; culm trigonous with scab- 
rous edges; leaves flat, scabrous on the margins; 
dioecious; male spike dark-brown, scales oblong-ovate; female spike 
cylindrical; scales dark-brown with paler midvein, ciliate; utricles 
ovate, obtusely trigonous, hairy, with short two-toothed beak ; 
stigmas 3. 
Seldom a small, few-flowered spikelet is to be found at the 
base of the spike. 



