138 CLXXH. CYPERACEH. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Carex. 
by iin.; bracts similarly varying. Lower spikes always distant, peduncle sometimes 
hardly exsert from the sheath with erect rigid spike, sometimes much longer with 
nodding spike (in Kunawur examples capillary with slender spike) ; 3-5 upper spikes 
not rarely fascicled. Male spike $-13 in., pale brown, glumes hardly mucronate. 
Fem. spikes commonly 3-1 by 4 in., dense, not rarely slenderer (in Kupawur hardly 
è in. wide, much looser). Fem. glumes shorter than utricle, ovate, thin, pale brown, 
linear-triangular back green excurrent in a scabrous cusp. Utricle 1 in., trigonous, 
irregularly nerved, herbaceous, often **punetate?' with ferruginous dots (often 
missing in Europ. and Cent. As. examples); oblong portion of beak about ii 
length of utricle, glabrous or slightly minutely scabrous. Mut filling utric " 
obovoid-ellipsoid, trigonous.— The identification of C. punctata, Gaudin, with C. 
diluta, M. Bieb. is due to Trevirarus (Bull Soc. Nat. Mosc. 1863, i. 541); and is 
accepted by Trautvetter, while Regel (Act. Hort. Petrop. vii. 573) and Boissier 
admit both species in Asia. The common Indus Valley plant appears to me 
identical with the European C. punctata, Gaudin. 
112. C. Munroi, Boott ms.; tall slender, leaves narrow, spikes e 
lowest very remote on filiform peduncle, topmost male with one utricle at he 
base linear lax pale brown, female glumes ovate acute scarcely mucronate, 
style 3-fid, utricle ellipsoid trigonous imperfectly nerved thin glabrous, 
narrowed into a short oblong-linear beak. C. chinensis, Munro ms. 
diluta, var. Boott ms. 
KUNAWUR ; alt. 11,500 ft. Munro (n. 2431). n. distant 
Glabrous. Stems 3 ft. Leaves 18 by? in., flat. Lowest peduncle 2 in., » Pies 
11 in. from the next. Spikes 3-14 by d—i in., drooping, rather lax. Fem. gw in 
shorter than utricle, ferruginous brown, green 3-nerved on back. Utriele t a : 
subsessile, wall of thin loose texture pale; beak very shortly bifid, smooth.— er The 
allied to C. Chinensis, which has erect less distant spikes and hairy utricles. In 
texture and character of the utricle is much like that in C. diluta, M. Bieb. 
both the examples preserved there is a utricle at base of the terminal male spike. 
113. C. ferruginea, Scop. Fl. Carniol. ii. 225; spikes 3-7 distant, 
terminal one male, lower fem. cylindric long-peduncled nodding brow 
glumes equalling utricle ovate acuminate, style 3-fid, utricle el T 
glabrous beak lanceolate longish notched scabrous on edges. ` Beicht, ^) ` 
Germ. viii. 21, t. 248; Boott Carex, iv. 207; Boeck. in Linnea, X i 
C. Mielichhoferi, Schk. Riedgr. ii. 66, t. Mmmm, fig. 198; Kunth Enum. 7 
466. 
KASRMIR ; Pir Pinjul, alt, 11,000 ft., C. B. Clarke.—Di1sTRIB. Alpine Europe 
and (if C. Seopoliana, Willd. be included) Central Asia. 
: d 
Glabrous, brownish. Stems 1 ft. Leaves nearly as long as stem, I. Weer 
flat. Spikesall distant, 2-1 in. ; bracts sheathing. GJumes (male and fem. 5 the 
castaneous-red with green backs, often mucronate. Utricle quite glabro feri); 
Indian example (as in Scopoli’s description and in Schkubr’s C. Nielic af 4 
beak lanceolate-linear triangular, plane, subconcave on posticous face, gei, has 
very scabrous on edges.— C. Scopoliana, Schk. Riedgr. ii. 77, t. Nnnn, fig This 
utricle hispid somewhat subovoid suddenly narrowed into a small oblong beak. 
nd 
is united (perhaps rightly) with C. ferruginea, Scop. (not Schk.) by Boott a 
oeck.). 
t, 
114. C. tristis, M. Bieb. Fl. Taur. Cauc. ii. 619; leaves Je 
spikes 6-8 cylindrie, uppermost 3 usually male, lower KS, 3-fid, 
peduncled suberect, fem. glumes ovate hardly mucronate, sty uddenly 
utricle ellipsoid trigonous glabrous fulvous-hispid on angles 5 . € 
narrowed into linear shortly-notched beak. Kunth Enum. Li nsa, zli. 
sempervirens, Villars, var. y, Boott Carex, iv. 218; Boeck. in Lin 
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