158. CYPERACER. 283 
Franchet separated this plant as a species from the North- 
American C. retrorsa, Schwein., which has longer spikes with 
the beaks of the utricles prominently deflexed. ©. retrorsa, 
Schwein., has also spongiose transversely lineolate leaves, which 
will not match. 
37. Carex digitata, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1, p. 975, ed. 2, p. 1384; 
Schkuhr, Riedgr. i. p. 76, ii. p. 57, t. H. fig. 38; Kunth, Enum. 
Pl. d. p. 473; Boeck. in Linnea, xli. (1877) p. 193; Baker et 
S. Moore, in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. xvii. (1880) p. 389. 
SuiNGKING: E. of Fungwhangshan (oss, 118!), Korean Gate 
(Ross, 424!). Herb. Kew. 
A common European species, extending to North Asia. 
38. Carex dineuros, C. B. Clarke, n. sp. 
Culmus 2-3-pedalis, ima basi foliis squamiformibus intectus. 
Folia supra eulmi basin usque ad 12 unc. longa, 4 lin. lata, 
glabra. Spice 4-5, distantes, terminalis mascula 13-24 unc. 
longa, pallide purpureo-brunea; femineæ 17-24 unc. longs, 
2 liv. latze, fusce luteo-virides; bractea ima pedalis, inflorescentiam 
multo superans. Glume ovate, obtuse vel vix acute, feminese 
cum utrieulis æquilongæ. Stylus 3-fidus. Utriculus 2 lin. 
longus, obovoideo-ellipsoideus, glaber, trigonus, fusce viridis 
obscure purpureo-maculatus, apice contractus; in 2 angulis 
conspicue nervatus; rostrum perminutum, lineare, ore integro. 
Nux eilipsoidea, trigona, apice breviter pyramidata acuminata. 
SHINGKING: Chienshan (Ross, 533 !); Curxrana: Tsien Mts. 
(Faber, 1527 !). Herb. Kew. 
39. Carex dispalata, Boott, in Perry, Exped. ii. (1859) p. 325; 
Boott, Carex [1], p. 205; F. Schmidt, Reise Amurl. p. 190, t. 7. 
figg. 6-10; Franch. et Sav. Enum. Pl. Jap. ii. pp. 151, 580; 
Franch. in Nouv. Arch. Mus. sér. 3, x. (1898) pp. 74, 98. 
Carex marginaria, Franch. in Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, sér, 8, vii. 
(1894-5) p. 40; Franch, in Nouv. Arch. Mus. sér. 3, ix. (1897) pp. 183 
160. 
SurNaKiNG: Moukden (Webster, 287!). Herb. Kew. 
Sachalin. Frequent in Japan. 
The style is always 3-fid; whereas Franchet says, in both his 
descriptions, that the style in his C. marginaria (Toya, n. 1084) 
is bifid. But in C. marginaria, herb. Faurie (Toya, n. 10184), 
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