94 
150. C. rotundata We., Kgl. Vet. Akad. Handl. 1803, p. 153. 
Lge. Consp. Fl. Groenl. p.152; Roseny., Till. p. 724; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. IV 





































Fig. 78. Carex rotundata 
Wg. */s nat. size. (Spec. 
from West Greenland). 
p.301; Blytt, Bidrag p.19; Schmidt, 
Fl. Jeniss. arct. p. 125; Feilden, 
Noy. Zemlya p. 21; Meinshausen, 
Cyperac. Russl. p. 376; FI. D. tab. 
1407, 3049; C. compacta Taylor, 
Pl. coll. at Davis Str. and Balff. Bay 
p. 85; Eastwood, Pl. coll. at Nome 
City, p. 130; C.membranacea Hook. 
Fl. bor. Am. II p. 220; C. vesicaria, 
y, Ledeb. l.c. p. 317; C. vesicaria, 
7, alpigena and 6, brachystachys, 
Lge. lic. p:293 Rosenv., 1. ¢ p: 725, 
C.pulla Lge. J. c. p: 293, ex parte; 
Roseny., l.c. p.725, non Good.; C. 
membranopacta Cornell Party, 
Peary Voy. 1896, p. 419. 
In the Arctic regions C. 
rostrata is remplaced by this 
species. 
Culms 15—40 em. high, 
slender, mostly smooth, longer 
than the leaves; leaves glaucous, 
1,5—3 mm. broad; lowest bract 
mostly a little longer than the 
culm; male spikelets 1—2, li- 
near; female spikelets 1—3 
(mostly 2), nearly sessile, dense- 
flowered, ovoid or short-cylin- 
drical; scales acute or obtuse, 
ovate, blackish-brown and most- 
ly with white, membranous sum- 
mit; utricles ovoid, faintly ner- 
ved, shining, pale or usually dark 
at the upper part, with rather 
short, smooth, terete, two-toothed 
beak; stigmas 3, seldom 2. 
Am.: Kotzebue Sound, Nome 
City, Arctic Shores, Southampton 
Island (!), North Somerset (!), Big 
Island in Hudson Strait, West 
Greenl. 60°—72° (!). Eur.: Dolgoi 



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Fig. 74. Carex pulla Wg. 
2/, mat. size. (Spec. from 
Iceland). 
Island, Waigats, Habarowa, Samoyede Land, Kanin Peninsula. As.: Mouth 
of the Yenissei, Chukches Land, St. Lawrence Island. 
