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shorter than the utricles; utricles subulate-lanceolate, at maturity 
reflexed, faintly nerved at the basal part; the subulate axis exceeds 
the utricles at maturity; stigmas 3. 
Am.: West Greenl. 60°—70° 30’ (). 
East Greenl. 60° 10’, 70°—71° (!). 
Geogr. area: Northern North 
America, Iceland, Scandinavia, The 
Alps, Caucasus, Siberia, Altai, Hima- 
laya; var. fuegina Kikenth.: Patagonia, 
Tierra del Fuego. 
Subsect. 2. Tentaculatae Tuckerm., 
l.c. p.13. Several spikelets of which 
the upper ones are male, the lower 
ones female; utricles smooth and shi- 
ning, globose-inflated, squarrose at ma- 
turity, beak long and two-toothed with 
divergent teeth. 
149. C. rostrata Stokes. 
C. ampullacea Good., Lge. Consp. 
FI. Groenl. p. 152; Rosenv., Till. p. 724; 
Fl. D. tab. 2248; C. vesicaria and 6 
anandra Lge. Consp. Fl. Groenl. p. 152 
and p. 153, non Linné. 
Rhizome creeping; culms 25— 
75 cm. high, erect, obtusely trigo- 
nous, smooth (seldom scabrous just 
below the spikelets); leaves glau- 
cous, 3—4 mm. broad, with invo- 
lute margins; bracts long, leafy, 
very short-sheathing; male spikelets 
2—3, linear, female spikelets 1—3, 
cylindrical, stalked, erect (sometimes 
the lower ones a little drooping); 
scales acute, lanceolate, brownish; 
utricles inflated- globose, shining, 
straw-coloured, nerved, abruptly 
tapering into a long beak; beak 
smooth, terete. with divergent teeth; 
stigmas 3. 
Am.: West Greenl. 60°—61° (1). 
Geogr. area: North America (C. utriculata Boott), Iceland, Europe, 
Caucasus, Siberia, Altai, Himalaya. 













Fig. 72. Carex rostrata Stokes. 4/2 
nat. size. 
(Spec. from West Greenland). 
