380 MR, C. B. CLARKE ON 
Gram. iv. p. 44, tab. 78.—Schoenus monoicus, Engl. Bot. t. 1410. 
—Elyna caricina, Mertens et Koch, Deutsch. FI. i. p. 458; Baster, 
Brit. Bot. vi. tab. 484. 
Culmi 5-15 cm., subeompressi. Folia culmo breviora vel sub- 
equilonga. Spice longe 1-21 cm., oblong aut ovate, fusce. 
Bractee 2-3 mm., fusce, obtuse aut nervo breviter excurrente. 
Spicule androgyne ; flos imus feemineus ; superior, masculus aut 
sepius tabescens. Flos foemineus: gluma elliptico-oblonga, 
florem omnino involvens, marginibus subliberis, superne in nervis 
lateralibus minute scabra; stylus basi paullo dilatatus; floris 
superioris rudimentum lineare, planum, viride, 3-nerve, margine 
scabrum. Nux late oblonga, obscure reticulata; rostrum nuce 
5-6-plo brevius. 
In regionibus Arcticis hemispherii borealis: Europa, Groen- 
landia; America, fretum Behring; sparsa nec communis. In 
alpinis montium zone temperate borealis: Britannia, Alpes, 
Pyrenees (fide Miégeville in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 1863, p. 81) ; 
Caucasus (fide C. A. Meyer, Pflanz. Caucas. p. 29) ; Mts. Rocky 
(America). 
[Huic referenda est, fide Swartz, Carex simpliciuscula, Wahl. in 
Kong. Acad. Handl. Stockholm (1803) p. 141, a Turner in Anglia 
(Westmoreland) lecta; sed Wahlenberg scripsit “capsulis ob- 
longis depressis ore integerrimo," et ex Steud. Syn. Cyper. 188, 
species ut vera Carez retinenda est ; in Turner, Bot. Guide, nomen 
desideratur.] 
6. K. srENOCARPA : culmis rigidis; foliis planis; spicis densis, 
vix interruptis; bracteis ovatis, obtusis, rarius breviter mucro- 
natis; nuce lanceolata apice in rostrum elongato-conicum atte- 
nuata.—Elyna stenocarpa, Karel. et Kiril. in Bull. Soc. Moscou, 
1842, p. 526.—Cobresia stenocarpa, Steud. Syn. Cyper. 246. 
Culmi 15 cm., subeompressi; vaginz inferiores fusce. Folia 
culmo breviora. Spice longs 13-23 cm., ovate, fusce. Bractex 
3—4 mm., fusce. Spicule androgyne: flos imus femineus, 1-3 
superiores masculi; spicule inferiores szpe fcemineze 1-flore cum 
rudimento: flores in apice spice masculi. Flos foemineus: gluma 
elliptico-oblonga involuta, marginibus subliberis ; stylus basi 
eonieus. Nux eum rostro longa 2 mm., angusta, superne atte- 
nuata, obseure reticulata; rostrum nuce brevius.—Exempla mea 
infra citata descripsi: nomen sfenocarpam ex descriptione tan- 
tum Karelin-Kirilovii adduxi. 
