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CAREX VIRIDULA MICHAUX AND CAREX GLAREOSA WAHLENBERG:
TWO SEDGES NEW TO THE FAROE ISLANDS
rescences are 7-25x5-12 mm, with 2-3(4)
spikes.
The utricles are pale-greenish to reddish-
brown, conical but seldomly beaked, lightly
orobscurely several-veined, 1.5-3.5 mm.
Voucher species were placed in B, C and
in the Faroese Museum of Natural History,
Tórshavn.
Acknowledgements
1 would like to thank Anna Maria Fosaa, Faroese
Museum of Natural History.Tórshavn, Henrik Ærenlund
Pedersen and Olof Ridning, Botanical Museum
Copenhagen for the opportunity to study herbarium
material.
I also would like to thank Jens Christian Schou for
his help to find useful iiterature and Marion Hemmelgarn
for the revision of the English text.
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