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lets few-flowered, the lowest stalked; the lowest bract mostly longer 
than the culms; scales shorter than the utricles; utricles greenish, 
obovate, more evenly tapering into the beak, stigmas 2 or 3. 
If transitory-forms between the type and the variety were not to be found — 
especially the specimens from Iceland and the Frées, which e.g. have purplish 
sheaths —, we should think it better to treat the variety as a distinct species. 
Am.: Arctic Coast, West Greenl. 60°—68° (!), East Greenl. 60°—61°. 
Geogr. area: Northern North America. 
138. C. Brenneri Christ apud 
Scheutz, Pl. vase. Jeniss. p. 178. 
Ceespitose with straw - coloured 
old sheaths at the base; culms slen- 
der, erect, smooth, longer than the 
rigid, glaucous leaves; male spikelet 
one, stalked, lanceolate; female spi- 
kelets 2—38, erect, short-cylindrical, 
lax-flowered, sometimes the lowest 
issuing from the base of the culm 
and then long-stalked, the others short- 
stalked; bracts pale-brownish, short, 
with a c. 1 cm. long sheath and 
bristle-like blade; scales obtuse, light- 
brown with greenish midvein, acute, 
shorter than the utricles; utricles 
hairy, oblong-obovate, obtusely tri- 
gonous, faintly nerved, with short 
two-toothed beak; stigmas 3. 

Fig. 60. Carex pilulifera L., var. deflexa (Horn.) ales 2 
Drej. 2/, nat. size. (Spec. from West Greenland), As.: Mouth of the Yenissei (!). 
Geogr. area: Yenissei-district. 
139. C. melanocarpa Cham. apud Trauty. Fl. Taimyr. p. 21. 
Ledeb. Fl. Ross. IV p. 302; Trauty. Pl. Sib. bor. p. 129; Schmidt, FI. 
Jeniss. arct. p.125; Kjellm., As. Beringss. p.562; Rothr., Fl. of Alaska p. 457. 
Loosely czespitose with stolons; culms slender, longer than the 
leaves; male spikelet 1, oblong; female spikelets 1—2, few-flowered, 
erect, globose; the upper close to the male spikelet, the lower a little 
remote, stalked, with a short-sheathing, short bract; scales broadly 
ovate, obtuse, blackish-brown with narrow, membranous, erose 
margins, faintly hairy on the dorsal side, shorter than the utricles; 
utricles obovate, biconvex, blackish-brown, faintly hairy; beak short 
with entire orifice; stigmas 3. 
