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Sect. a. SrwPLICES. Spicule in spica simplice sessiles. (Bractea 
ima rarissime elongata.) 
* Spicarum bractee ime erecta, circa rhachin astricte. 
1. K. scrrprna (Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. p. 205): culmis tenuibus ; 
foliis canaliculato-complicatis ; bracteis ovatis subobtusis, imis 
parum distantibus; nuce obovato-oblonga, stylobasi lineari.— 
Svensk. Bot. vii. tab. 527. fig. 1; Hornem. in Fl. Dan. t. 1529, 
saltem quoad descript. (tab. ipsa autem exclud. ?) ; Wahl. Fl. Suec. 
(1833) ii. p. 605; Beck. in Linnea, xxxix. p. 6.—K. Bellardi, 
Loisel, Fl. Gall. (1828) ii. p. 281.—K. filiformis, Dewey in Sillim. 
Amer. Journ. ser. 1, xxix. p. 253, tab. Z. fig. 85.—Cobresia scirpina, 
Pers. Syn. ii. 034; Anderss. Cyper. Scand. 14.—Carex Bellardi, 
Allion. Fl. Pedem. ii. p. 264, t. 92. fig. 2; Host. Gram. iv. 43. 
t. 77 ; Schkuhr, Carex, i. p. 13, tab. D. fig. 16.—C. myosuroides, 
Vill. Pl. Dauph. ii. 194, t. 6, nec Gmel., nec Lowe.—C. dioica, 
var. B, Lam. Encycl. ii. p. 378, non Linn.—C. hermaphrodita, 
Gmel. Syst. Veg. p. 139, non Jacq.— C. lucida, Linn. Herb. neque 
Boott neque aliorwm.—Hlyua spicata, Schrad. Fl. Germ. i. p. 155; 
Reich. Cyper. Fl. Germ. p. 2, tab. 193; Sturm, Deutsch. Fl. vii. ; 
Nees, Gen. ii., cum tab. ; Torrey in Ann. Lyceum New York, iii. 
p. 385.—E. Bellardi, Hartman in Kong. Akad. Handl. Stockholm 
(1818) p. 154.—Scirpus Bellardi, Wahl. Fl. Lapp. 15.—F reelichia 
caricoides, Fenzl et Graf. Fl. Norica, p.729. 
Culmi 4—2 dm. Folia cum culmis subequilonga. Spice longe 
2-3 cm., late 2-5 mm. Bractee longe 3 mm. (ima vix acuta 
neque aristata), omnes vel plurime imbricate, in rhachi astricte, 
ferruginee aut castanex, leves. Spicule ime et evolutiores 3—4- 
floree, flore imo (perraro 2 imis) foemineis, floribus 1-3 superioribus 
masculis aut summo rudimentario; spicule intermedie 2-flore, 
flore inferiore feemineo, superiore masculo aut sterili aut rudi- 
mentario ; flores summi masculi. (Spicule autem foeminee I-florze 
sine rudimento haud raro obvie sunt.) Floris feminei gluma 
bracteze similis sed minor, levis, marginibus basi haud aut bre- 
viter connatis, in spiculis 2~1-floris florem superiorem masculum 
includens subutriculiformis, in spiculis 3—4-floris minus involuta, 
aut aperta dorso leviter concavo ; stylus basi linearis. Nux longa 
2 mill., obovato-oblonga, in basim linearem styli subito angustata, 
obseurius retieulata. 
Regiones arctice hemispherii borealis, in Europa, Asia, 
America frequens; in Islandia et Groenlandia. In alpinis re- 
