Carex, | CLXXIL CYPERACER. (C. B. Clarke.) 731 
in C. alpina.—Strachey & Winterbottom, n. 21, the plant in Herb. Kew inscribed 
by Boott as C. Lehmanni, Drejer, is, in my opinion, fairly typical C. alpina. 
94. C. obscura, Nees in Wight Contrib. 126; spikes (3-7) oblong or 
cylindric approximate short-peduncled erect dense, style 3-fid, utricle 
oblong narrowed to each end trigonous granular yellow smooth, beak 
pyramidal scabrid emarginate, nut nearly filling utricle. Kunth Enum. ii. 
915; Strachey Cat. PL. Kumaon, 73; Boott Carex, i. 70, t. 192; Boeck. in 
Linnea, xl, 395. C. infuscata, Mees in Wight Contrib. 125 (partly). C. 
ematostoma, Herb. Jacquem. 
Wesr HIMALAYA, alt. 8-10,500 ft., from Kashmir, C. B. Clarke, to Kumaon, 
Strachey & Winterbottom. 
Glabrous. Stoloniferous. Stems 1-2 ft., rather slender. eaves often over- 
topping stem, è in. broad, flat, weak (the leaf so commonly seen 1-3 in. below the 
mfl. in C, alpina never (?) occurs here). Spikes often very close, subsessile, or 
lowest sometimes 2 in. distant on a 1 in. peduncle, $ by } in., dark chestnut or black, 
terminal Occasionally wholly male; lowest bract usually overtopping infl. Glumes 
ovate, triangular-tipped, dark chestnut, often yellow on keel.  Utricle jg in. as 
long as glume, less than A, in. broad, very obscurely inflated, nerves irregular or 
obscure ; beak none, except hollow elongate pyramidal part of utricle. Style-branches 
shorter than the utricle.—The plant here described as typical C. obscura is Royle’s, 
n. 118 (C. haematostoma, Herb. Jacquem.), which is C. obscura, Munro and Boott, 
hut was CO. infuscata of Nees. C. parvibracteata, Nees, referred here by Boott 
(Carex, iii, 108), is = C. psycrophila, Nees. 
Var. B brachycarpa; utricle much shorter obovoid-ellipsoid narrowed very 
suddenly into a short-oblong beak scabrous on shoulders granular. (not shining 
yellow) when ripe.—Himalaya, alt. 10-12,000 ft., from Simla, Duthie, to Sikkim, 
J. D. H., &c.—This is Boeckeler’s C. obscura.—Utricle usually nerveless or nearly 
50. Basal sheaths a shining horny-brown. Spikes often uniform black. 
95. C. atrata, Linn. Sp. Pl. 1387; spikes 3-6 large approximate 
cylindric dense lowest peduncled nodding, glumes ovate acuminate, style 
J-fid, utricle large ovoid or ellipsoid inflated yellow-brown smooth beak- 
ess nearly nerveless, nut sessile much smaller than utricle. Schkuhr 
Riedgr, i. 59, & ii. 42, t. X. fig. 77: Kunth Enum. ii. 433; Reichb. Jc. FI. 
Gern. viii. 16, t. 937; Boott Carex, iii. 114, tt. 362-364; Boeck. in Linnæa, 
xl. 398, Co aterrima, Hoppe in Sturm Fl. Deutsch. (xxi. 3] 12; Kunth le. 
t 
494: Reich. I. c. t. 236. C. caucasica, Stev. in Mem. Soc. Mosc. iv. 68; 
Kunth Le 433. ` 
KASHMIR, alt. 11,000 ft., frequent, C. B. Clarke. Sikx1M, alt. 11-17,000 ft., 
J. D. H., Ktng.— DisTRIB. Cold N. Hemisphere. . . a 
Glabrous. Stoloniferous. Stems 1 in. apart on the creeping rhizome, 2 ft., 
medium stout, triquetrous scabrous at top. Leaves often as long as stem, sa MD 
broad, Spikes 3-1 by i-i in.; lowest 3-2 in. distant, sometimes compound H lowest 
Peduncle 1-2} in., rather slender; lowest bract usually overtopping infl. Glumes 
id in., fem. often nearly uniformly black except margin, sometimes with x low 
keel, male paler usually with yellow keel. Utriele A by } in., plane-convex, ° ining, 
triangular at both ends, slightly granular, finally shining ; mouth small, roume, entire 
or with a short slit on one side. Style-branches much shorter than utrie e, 0c du 
Slonally the entire protruded part of style is nearly as long as the branc em y uf 
ellipsoid or obovoid, trigonous, less than half the length of nut and about half its 
breadth.— Much of Boott’s Indian C. atrata is C. nivalis, Boott. 
i i shortly 
96. C. Duthiei, C. B. Clarke ; spikes approximate, lowest very s 3 
peduncled, glumes acuminate linear-tipped, utricle narrow oblong, nut 
small stalked nearly filling utricle, otherwise as C. atrata. 
