91 
p. 346: Dusén, Ost-Grénl. p.57; Trautv. Pl. Sib. bor. p. 128; Kjellm., As. 
Beringss. p.561; Fl. D. tab. 2374. 
Czspitose; culms slender, erect, longer than the leaves; leaves 
flat, 0,5—1 mm. broad: lowest bract long-sheathing and with leafy 
blade: terminal spikelet male, small, exceeded by the female ones; 
female spikelets 2—4, few (6—10}- and lax-flowered, drooping on 
capillary stalks; scales broadly ovate, obtuse or subacute, shorter 
than the utricles, brownish with broad, white, membranous margins, 

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Fig. 69. Carex capillaris L. =/s nat. size. Fig. 70. Carex Oederi Ehrh. =/s nat. size. 
(Spec. from Iceland). (Spec. from West Greenland). 
deciduous; utricles lanceolate-ovate, obtusely trigonous or rounded 
with 3 ribs, tapering into a rather long beak with membranous 
margins; stigmas 3. 
Am.: Cumberland Gulf, West Greenl. 60°—74° 18’ (), East Green. 
60°—63° (1), 65° 35’, 70°—71° (), 73°10’. As.: Mouth of the Lena, Chuk- 
ches Land. 
Geogr. area: Unalashka, Northern North America, Iceland, British 
Isles, North Europe, Central European Mountains, Siberia, Altai, 
Kamchatka. 
Sect. VIII. Spirostachyae Drejer, l.c. p.10. Spikelets ovate or oblong, 
sessile or the lowest long-stalked, dense-flowered; utricles membranous 
smooth, nerved, mostly yellowish, squarrose, with a two-toothed beak. 
