700 CLXXII. CYPERACEÆ®. (C. B. Clarke.) (Carex. 
Subgenus IT. Evcarex. Style 3-fid. 
Sect. 4. Rare. Stem with 1 spike, fem. at base (C. rara, &c.) sp. 34-39 
Sect. 5. Indice. Terminal spike fem. at base, male at top; 
or, when spikes very numerous many male at top, ter- 
minal spike sometimes wholly male. 0-42 
* Subscapose, basal leaves long (C. cyrtostachys, &e.). .sp.4 op 
** Spikes short, very numerous (C. cruciata, &c.) . + + SPs 43- 
*** Spikes long-cylindric. Peduncles mostly solitary (C. "3 
Myosurus, Zei . . 6 ee ew ew ee ot n t sp. 67- 
***% Spikes long-cylindric. Peduncles often several from 
each lower sheath. Terminal spike sometimes wholly na st 
male (C. polycephala, Zei, . . . . ew et SPs 74-8 
##*#%% Species not easily placed iu any one of the preceding 4 
subsections (C. curticeps, C. speciosa, C. fragilis, 
CC. ). D H D D H DH . H DH D D H . . . . 
Sect. 6. Atrate. Terminal spike male at base fem. at top (C. 8 
atrata, &e) . . . ee ee oe ee ot on . sp. 92-9 
Sect. 7. Proprie. Terminal spike wholly male (in the first 
group occasionally fem.at top). Spikes not very numerous, 
occasionally up to 12, 
* Utricle glabrous, beak short PPP . 8p. 99-105 
** Utricle glabrous, beak long (C. japonica, &c.). . + + SP 108 14 
*** Utricle hairy or minutely setulose (C. hirtella, &c.). . SP- 126- 
. . . S 
Subgenus I. Vicenza (Genus) Beauv. in Lestib. Essai Cyp- 22, Style 
2-fid; in C. stenophylla rarely 3-fid. oor 3 
[N.B.—In Subgen. Eucarea, in the Indian species, 2-fid styles occur in 40r 
species in the upper part of the spike, or in poorly-developed spik elets. J hers) 
e 
Sect. 1. Muricarm, Terminal spike (and usually some or many of the erui ; 
fem. at base male at top. [Spikelets in C. fluviatilis all or mostly i- 
moneecious or dicecious.] interrupted 
* Spikes short, ovoid or oblong, sessile or nearly so; infl.a dense or n 
ore 
compound spike, [The series of species proceeds from the dense to the m 
interrupted.] 
sp. 85-91 
_ 1. C. incurva, Lightf. Fl. Scot. ii. 544, t. 24, fig. 1; rhizome descend 
ing, stems short, spikes ovoid androgynous male at top forming eret ricle 
compound spike, glumes brown slightly scarious-edged, sty le 2- k short 
ellipsoid-acuminate inflated thin plicate scarcely nerved, pn Kunth 
minutely scabrous on margins. Schk. Riedgr. i. 97, t. Hh. fig: ` t Cares, 
Enum. ii. 375; Beicht, Ic. Fl. Germ. viii. 4, t. 199, fig. 539; Bot dem. ii. 
iv. 210 ; Boeck. in Lixnea, xxxix. 48. C. juncifolia, Allioni Fi. Te 
Së t. 92, fig. 4 (not of Schk.). Vignea incurva, Reichd. Fl. Germ. 
-15,500 
N. W. HIMALAYA, from Kunawur and Kashmir to the Karakorum, alt, 11 15,5 
ft., Thomson, &c.—DisTR15. Mountain and cold regions. :ng rhizome. 
Stems up to 6 in. (in India), often several clustered on top of ascending Peg 
Leaves sometimes as long as stem, narrow, often (when dry) incurved $ shining; 
flat. Infl. about 4 in. diam.; lowest bract lin. Glumes obtuse, margins or than 
yellowish, not broadly white scarious. Utricle rather longer than glume, larg u 
nut, withering with folds on it; beak shortly 2-fid, hyaline ultimately at OP» serte 
$ utricle, plano-convex, obtuse, shining-chestnut. Style } nut, branches long 
A. [1809 
2. C. stenophylla, Wahlenb. in Kong. Vet. Akad. Handl. Stockh. D e 
142; rhizome descending, stems short, spikes ovoid androgynous Pi ogg, 
forming one ovoid or oblong compound spike, glumes strongly 5 
