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APPENDIX NO. XVIII. 
83. Juncus trifidus, PL Dan. T. 107. Lam. Diet. Dot. Asa 
Gray's Man. ed. 1, p. 508. 
Fiske Fiord, 64°. 
84. J. arcticus, Linn. FI. Lapp. p. 116. D. C. FI. Fr. 3, p. 165. 
Scapes simple, rigid, naked, 8-10 inches high, furnished at base with 
long striated sheaths, springing 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. 
CYPEPACEiE. 
85. Carex rigida, Good. C. saxatilis, Linn. FI. 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 
exserted and whitish. 
Fiske Fiord, 64°. 
87 .aff. C. rctrojicxcc. Too young to determine. 
Fiske Fiord. 
88. Scntpus ccespitosus, Linn. D. C. FI. Fr. 3, p. 135. Asa 
Gray's Man. ed. 1, and Gram, and Cyper. Very small form, not three 
inches high. 
Fiske Fiord and Sukkertoppen. 
89. Eriopiiorum capitatum, Host. E. scheuchzeri, Hoppe. E. 
vagina turn , j3. Sutt. Ilelv. p. 28. Lam. Diet, suppl. 3, p. 445. D. C. 
FI. 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 acumiuation, but 
sometimes quite leafy. Leaves channelled at base, flat above and ter¬ 
minating 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. Dot. T. 873. D. C. FI. Fr. 3, p 
132. Asa Gray, Man. ed. 1, and Gram, and Cyper. No. 88. Hook. 
FI. Dor. Am. 2, 231. Culm 7-8 inches high, with two sheaths at the 
base terminating in a short acumination. Leaves all radical, triangu¬ 
larly channelled, half the length of the culm. Spathe none; scales 
