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Am.: Port Clarence (!), Nome City, Arctic Sea-coast (!), Baffin Land, 
West Greenl. 60°—74° 18’ (!), Cap York, East Greenl. 65° 35’ (!), 70°— 
71°(!). As.: Chukches Land (!). 
Geogr. area: Northern North America, 
Arctic Norway (one spot: Saltdalen). 
Subsect. 2. Montanae Fries, Corp. Flor. 
Provincial. I, 1835, p. 188. Spikelets several, 
utricles rounded, often contracted above and 
below, mostly with two prominent ribs; 
czespitose, 
137. C. pilulifera L. 
Trautv. Fl. rip. Kolym. p: 566; Fl. D. 
tab. 1048, 3050. 
Ceespitose, with straw-coloured old 
sheaths at the base; culms slender, ad- 
scending, trigonous with scabrous edges, 
longer than the leaves; leaves flat, keeled; 
one cylindrical sessile male spikelet; female 
spikelets 2—4, sessile, ovoid-globose; the 
lowest bract leafy, mostly shorter than the 
culms; scales broadly ovate, acute, brown 
with greenish midyein, as long as_ the 
utricles; utricles hairy, pale, broadly obo- 
vate to pyriform, with two ribs, abruptly 
tapering into a short, two-toothed beak; 
stigmas 3. 
As: Mouth of the Kolyma. 
Geogr. area: Iceland, Ferées, British 
Isles, North and Central Europe, East Siberia, 
Kamchatka, Japan. 
var. deflewa (Horn.) Drej., Revis. crit. 
Car. bor. p. 472. 
Lge. Consp. Fl. Groenl. p.151 and p.293; 
FL. D. tab. 3051; C. deflexa Hornemann, Dansk 
Plantelzre, ed. 3, I, p. 938; Rosenv., Till. p. 
724; Nye Bidrag p.71; C. varia Muhl., 6 mi- 
nor Boot in Hook. Fl. bor. Am. II p. 223. 
In North America the type is sub- 
stituted by a variety separated from the 
















Fig. 59. Carex pilulifera L. */; nat. 
size. (Spec. from Denmark). 
main species by following characters: culms mostly curved; old 
sheaths purplish; male spikelet small, few-flowered; female spike- 
6% 
