92 
Subsect. Fulvellae Fries, Summa Veget., p. 70. Spikelets aggregated 
at the summit of the culm (sometimes the lowest long-stalked, issuing 
from the base of the culm), subtended by a long leafy bract; utricles 
long-beaked. 
147. C. Oederi Ehrh. 
Lge. Consp. Fl. Groenl. p. 149; Fl. D. tab. 371. 
Cespitose; culms erect with smooth 
and blunt edges; leaves flat, shorter or 
longer than the culms; bracts long, leafy, 
spreading, not sheathing; male spikelet 1, 
oblong; female spikelets 2—3, ovoid-glo- 
bose, aggregated or sometimes the lowest 
long-stalked, issuing from the base of the 
culm; scales ovate, acute, yellowish-brown 
with greenish midvein, shorter than the 
utricles; utricles obovoid, nerved, inflated, 
yellow-green, spreading (but not reflexed), 
abruptly tapering into a long beak with 
two teeth, scabrous on the inner side; 
stigmas 3. 
Am.: West Greenl.: Igaliko c. 61° 2’ (!). 
Geogr. area: Northern North America, 
Iceland, North, West and Central Europe, Cau- 
casus, Songoria. 



Sect. IX. Physocarpae Drejer, l.c. p. 10. 
One or several linear male spikelets and several 
cylindrical female spikelets, more or less stalked 
rarely one solitary spike, male at the summit, 
female at the base; utricles mostly yellowish, 
more or less inflated, smooth, nerved, tapering 
into a long beak; stigmas 3. 
Subsect. 1. Pauciflorae Tuckerm., 1. c. p. 7. 
Spike solitary, few-flowered; utricles subulate, 
nearly non-inflated, first erect, but reflexed at 
maturity; scales deciduous; a rudiment of the 
axis at the base of the achene. 


Fig. 71. Carex microglochin Wg. 
gee lane 148. ©. microglochin Wg. 
(Spec. from West Greenland). 
Lge. Consp. Fl. Groenl. p. 133; Abromeit, 
Gronl. Exp. p. 89; Hartz, Nordést Grénl. p. 345; Fl. D. tab. 1402. 
Rhizome with stolons; culms erect, rigid, terete, smooth, longer 
than the leaves; leaves channelled or hemi-cylindrical; spike few- 
flowered; scales ovate, obtuse or subacute, deciduous, pale-brown, 
