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up from matted horizontal rootstocks. Panicle few-flowered, apparently lateral from 

 the spathe, terminating in a long and acute point. Sepals dark brown. 

 Sukkertoppen, 65° ; intermixed with Luzula spicata. 



CYPERACEJE. 



85. Carex rigida, Good. G. saxatilis, Linn. Fl. Dan. &c. 

 Frequent at almost every station. 



86 aff. C. dioicce. A single specimen with solitary staminate spikes of 



an ovoid form; Leaves all radical and flat. Culm apparently flat (perhaps 3-angular), 

 3 inches high and rather shorter than the leaves ; scales obtuse, of a light brown 

 color, stamina much exerted and whitish. 



Fiske Fiord, 64°. 



87 aff. G retrqflexce. Too young to determine. 



Fiske Fiord. 



88. Scirpus coespitosus, Linn. D. C. Fl. Fr. 3, p. 135. Asa Gray's Man. ed. 1st, 

 and Gram, and Cyper. Very small form, not three inches high. 



Fiske Fiord and Sukkertoppen. 



89. Eriophorum CApitatum, Host. JE. sdieuchzeri, Hoppe. JE. vaginatum, /?. Sutt. 

 Helv., p. 28. Lam. Diet, suppl. 3, p. 445. D. C. Fl. Fr. 3, p. 132. Culm cylindrical, 

 6 — 8 inches high, with smaller heads than the following, but hardly distinguished from 

 it by other characters than being provided with a brown oval and persistent spathe 

 instead of scales. Sheaths terminating in a short acumination, but sometimes quite 

 leafy. Leaves channeled at base, flat above and terminating in a triangular blunt 

 point, longer than the culm and more or less scabrous on the margin. 



Fiske Fiord, 64°, and Rensselaer Harbor, 80°. 



90. E. vaginatum, Linn. Engl. Bot. T. 873. D. C. Fl. Fr. 3, p. 132. Asa Gray. 

 Man. ed. 1st, and Gram, and Cyper. No. 88. Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2, 231. Culm 

 7 — 8 inches high, with two sheaths at the base, terminating in a short acumination. 

 Leaves all radical, triangularly channeled, half the length of the culm. Spathe none ; 

 scales numerous, ovate and acuminate, of a lead color ; mature silky heads more than 

 one inch in diameter, almost globular. 



Sukkertoppen, 65°. 



91. E. polystachyon, Linn. Spec. pi. p. 76. R latifolium, Hoppe. Specimens 

 from 4 — 15 inches high, not in fruit. 



Stations of Smith's Sound to Rensselaer Harbor, 80°. 



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