Carez.] OLXXII. CYPERACEE. (C. D. Clarke.) 711 
pale, slender, or shorter thicker purple-chestnut. Fem. spikes often 1 by } in., 
often 2-7 fascicled with 1 or 2 remote below, frequently with 1-6 rectangularly 
divaricate short branches. Uéricles greyish with green margins, and 1-4 irregular 
green nerves.—A ppears always thus irregular ; the rhizome is usually woody, short, 
but sometimes the stem at base appears slender decumbent rooting in mud. Easily 
recognized, as being the only low-level Indian species at all resembling C. rigida. 
9l. C. rigida, Gooden. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ii. 193, t. 22, fig. 10; 
stems 4—8 (rarely 10-12) in., leaves (dried) flat or margins near base slightly 
recurved, spikes 3 or 4 close together cylindric short dense, bracts not 
overtopping the infl., styles 2-fid, utricle ellipsoidal flattened smooth 
nearly nerveless apiculate by minute entire beak. Schk. Riedgr. i. 56, & 
u. 25, t. U, fig. 71; Reichb. Tc. Fl. Germ. viii. 12, t. 225, fig. 578; Boeck. in 
Linnza, x]. 414. C. saxatilis, Schk. Le 54, & ii. 25, tt. i, fig. 40, & tt. fig. 
40; Kunth Enum. ii. 410. C. vulgaris, var. alpina, Boott Carez, iv. 167, 
tt. 568-574. C. orbicularis, Boott in Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 254, & in Trans. 
Linn, Soc. xx. [1851] 134. 
ALPINE HIMALAYA and W. TIBET, alt. 9-13,000 ft., from Gilgit, Giles, to 
Sikkim, J. D. H.—DisTRIB. Cooler parts of the World. 
. Stoloniferous. Leaves often curved. Spikes 4-4 by 1-j in. Fem. glumes ovate- 
triangular, acute scarcely mucronate, chestnut-purple.—In the original C. orbicularis 
Se the utricles are unusually large, but not larger than in some European 
8, 
32. €. vulgaris, Fries Nov. Mant. iii. 153, & Summ. Veg. 230; stems 
often 10-20 in., leaves (dried) conduplicate, spikes less close longer, utricle 
Dore or less slenderly nerved, otherwise as C. rigida, ` Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. 
vii. 13, tt. 226, 227 ; Boott Carew, iv. 166, tt. 557-567; Boeck. in Linnea, 
i 416. (C. cæspitosa, Schk. Riedgr. i. 57, & ii. 27, figs. Aa, t. 85, a, b, & 
b, t. 85, c, d, e; Kunth Enum. ii. 411. 
` N.W. HIMALAYA and W. TIBET, alt. 10-13,000 ft., from Gilgit, Giles, to Lahoul, 
aeschke, frequent.— DISTRIB. Cooler parts of the World. 
Some of the material Mr. Baker considers good Yorkshire C. vulgaris, but there 
are many examples which he considers do not match either C. vulgaris, Fries, or C. 
"gida, Gooden. 
al Var. B distracta; spikes less close, 
t. 8000 ft. , C. B. Clarke.—Altogether unlike any European form, 
lowest 2-7 in. distant.— Kashmir ; Gurais, 
J. G. Baker. 
33. C. erostrata, Boott ms.; utricles obovoid compressed beakless, 
Otherwise as C. rigida, Strachey Cat. Pl. Kumaon, 73; Duthie in T. E. 
thins, Gazetteer, x. 618. 
n op) MAON; Barji Kang Pass, alt. 14,500 ft., Strachey & Winterbottom (Carex, 
«7 instead of a minute beak there is a triangular notch at the top of the utricle. 
cannot recollect ever seeing any C. rigida like it,” J. G. Baker. 
Subgenus II. Carex proper. Style-branches 3 (see also 2. C. steno- 
2^ lla). 
8 Sect. 4. Rar#. Stem with 1 spike (seealso 42. ( 
MS (i.e. rudiment of the suppressed upper part of spikelet) 
"ele. Bract hardly longer than fem. glumes. 
34. €. microglochin, Wall. in Handl. Kong. Akad. Stockh. 140, & 
Fl. Lapp. 224; spike ii in, style-branches 3, utricles lanceolate acu- 
C. radicalis), fem. at base. 
often present within 
