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land (260). South coast, less common, especially outside the archaean 

 district: Fram Fjord, along a river in the Western valley (4253); Har- 

 bour Fjord, in the Big Valley (2339) and Barren Vallies (2391); Goose 

 Fjord, Ptarmigan Gorge (8391). 



Distribution: West Greenland, Arctic American Archipelago, 

 Alaska, Arctic Siberia, Novaja Semlja, Northern Scandinavia. The main 

 species rather v^ridely spread southwards in the continents. 



Carex glareosa, Wahlenb. 



C. glareosa, Wahlenberg, InL Caricogr., 1803; Schkuhr, RledgrSs. 2; Lange, Consp. 

 FL Groenl.; Kruuse, List E. Greenl.; Simmons, PreL Rep. et Bot. Arb.; 

 Hooker, F1. Bor. Amer. ; Britton & Brown, 111. Fl. ; Kjellman, in Vegaexp. ; 

 Ledebour, Fi. Ross.; Andersson & Hesselman, Spetsb. kSrlv. ; Andersson, 

 Gyp. Scand. 



Fig. Sv. Bot., T. 645; Fl. Dan., T. 2430. 



This seems to be a very rare species, as I have only found it in 

 a single locality, in dry places together with C. rupestris. Only old 

 culms were found (June 6, 1899) and I had no occasion to visit the 

 place at a more favorable season. 



Occurrence. Hayes Sound, "Fort Juliane" (680). 



Distribution: East and West Greenland, Baffin Land, Labrador, 

 Canada, Alaska, Unalaschka, St. Lawrence Island, Land of the Chukches, 

 Kamshatka, Northern Russia, Novaja Semlja, Spitsbergen, Northern 

 Scandinavia, Iceland. 



Carex ursina, Dew. 



C. ursina, Dewey, Caricogr., 1835; Torrey, Amer. Cyp. ; Ostenfeld, FI. Arct. ; 

 Lange, Consp. Fl. Groenl. ; Kruuse, Lisl E. Greenl. ; Simmons, Prel. Rep. et Bot. 

 Arb.; Hooker, Fl. Bor. Amer.; Kjellman, Sibir. nordk. fan.; Kjellman &Lund- 

 str5m. Fan. Nov. Semi.; Andersson & Hesselman, Spetsb. kSrlv. ; C glareosa 

 ursina, Britton & Brown, 111. Fl. 

 Fig. Dewey, 1. c, T. 5, fig. 68; Hooker, 1. c. 2, T. 210; Fl. Dan., T. 2429. 



A rare species only found in two places, but growing there soci- 

 ably in wet soil, and both times (July 30, 1899 and August 4, 1902), 

 fruiting abundantly. 



Occurrence. Hayes Sound region: near the Eskimo house on 

 Cocked Hat Island (1275). South coast: great valley on the West side 

 of Walrus Fjord, near the shore (3935). 



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