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be overlooked. Ing. Óskarsson (1922, p. 41) found it to be common at the head
of Eskifjörður and Reyðarfjörður, E., and Steindórsson (1935, p. 44) to found it
common on the coast of the peninsula Melrakkasljetta, N. See fig. 65.
Life-form: G. (Rhizome Geophyte).
In salt marshes; on clayey ground near the sea.
Flor. VII; fr. mat. VIII.
Max. height: 7 cm; average: 4 cm.
Fig. 65. Carex subsþathacea Wormskj.
Geogr. area: Am.: Labrador, Hudson Bay, Kotzebue Sound, northern Alaska.—
Greenl. : W. 60°—70°20'. E. 60°—76°49'.—Eur.: S.; arctic coasts of Scandinavia,
Finmark, Russian Lapland ; Spitsbergen, Novaya Zemlya.—Asia : Coasts of arctic
Siberia, Sakhalin.
124. Carex vaginata Tausch, Flora, IV (1821) p. 557.
C. þanicea, K. & M., 1770, p. 210.—C. vaginata Tausch, Drejer, Revisio,
1841, p. 471.—Babington, 1871, p. 339.—Gronlund, Isl. Fl., 1881, p. 118.—
C. sþarsiflora (Wg.) Steud., Stefánsson, Fl. Isl., ed. 1, 1901, p. 40.—Ibid.,
ed. 2, 1924, p. 45.—C.H.O., Fl. arct., 1902, p. 81,—O. & Gr., 1934, p. 39.
Flor. Dan. Suppl. I, tab. 27.
Icelandic: Slíðrastör. Danish: Skedebladet Star. English: Sheathed Sedge.
Common in N., N.W. and S.W.; rather frequent in E.; and here and there in
S- Not recorded from the central parts.
It usually attains its best development when growing on slopes with a scattered
growth of shrubs.
Remarkable is the occurrence of this species in E. Greenland, at 74°10' Lat. N.
(cp. P. Gelting in Medd. om Gronl. Bd. 101, 1934, p. 174).
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