382 : MR. C. B. CLARKE ON 
Species generi aliene (aliis in Hemicarice inveniendis). 
Kobresia cyperoides, Wild. Sp. Pl. iv. p. 206, est Mariscus 
Jacquinii, Kunth, fide Kunth, Enum. ii. p. 124. 
Kobresia globularis, Dewey in Sillim. Amer. Journ. ser. i. 
xxix. p. 253, tab. Z. fig. 86, est Carex filifolia, Nuttall, 
fide Torrey (vide Boott, Carex, i. pp. 13, 14). 
Elyna capillifolia, Henderson, Yarkand, p. 339, n. 371, est 
Carex stenophylla, Wahl. 
Kobresia caricina, Boiss. in Kotschy, Pl. Cilicens. p. 131 b., 16 d. 
est Carex atrata, Linn., var. nigra (sp. Allion.). 
Hemicarex, Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. p. 367 ; Benth. 
et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iti. p. 1072, sp. capensibus excl.—Kobresix 
sp., Beck. in Linnea, xxxix. p. 8.—Carex linearis, Boott, Lil. 
Carex, t. 136. 
Spicule unisexuales, mascule spicas foemineas continuantes, 
glumis undique imbricatis, vel interdum omnino mascule soli- 
tarie ; femine: 1-florz, (rudimento rarius addito) spicate. Gluma 
ceminea concava, marginibus basi vel usque ad medium con- 
natis. 
Perennes, radicibus lente fibrosis, glabre (marginibus glu- 
marum perraro minutissime pubescentibus). Culmi cespitosi, 
fasciculati (vel in H. laxa paullulo distantes), leves vel minute 
scabri. Folia prope basin culmi plura, anguste linearia (vel in 
H. laxa folia caulina graminea), in marginibus (saltem prope 
apices) seabrida; vagine ime subaphylle, testacez (in H. laxa 
minus conspieus). Bracteæ et inflorescentia in duabus sectionibus 
diverse. 
Sect. a. SrwPLICES. Spica specie solitaria, simplex, linearis, basi 
feminea, apice mascula; quoad structuram ei Caricis puli- 
caris similis. (Spice fere fæmineæ aut omnino mascule 
haud raro obvie.) Bractea ima ovata obtusa aut apiculata, 
perraro elongata foliiformis. 
* Spicarum bractee ime erecte circa rhachin astricte. 
1. H. rgiwERvIS (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p- 1072): 
folis canaliculato-complieatis; bracteis ovatis, imbricatis, foemi- 
neis siepe mueronatis; nucis rostro longo, intra glumam incluso. 
— Carex trinervis, Nees, Cyper. Ind. 120, non Degland.—C. Esen- 
beckii, Kunth, Enum. ii. p. 522; Boott in Trans. Linn. Soc. XX. 
