Carex. | CLXXIL CYPERACER. (C. B. Clarke.) 745 
on peduncle 1} in. ; bract sheathing, its free portion very short (rarely 1 in.). Fem. 
glumes rather large, conspicuous by the strongly-ribbed broad green back; male 
glumes sometimes similar but often chestnut-red.  Utricle 1 in., shorter than glume, 
round-trigonous, obscurely nerved; beak hardly notched. Nut obovoid, trigonous, 
filling utricle ; style very short, base slightly swollen, branches as long as utricle, 
134. C. Halleriana, Asso Syn. 133, t. 9, fig. 2; spikes 3, terminal 
one oblong-cylindrie male, fem. 2 close to it short few-fld., fem. glumes 
ovate green, style 3-fid, utricle somewhat large ovoid strongly-ribbe | 
green minutely glandular-pilose tip triangular shortly notched. Boott 
Carex, iv. 198, tt. 415, 416; Boeck. in Linnea, xli. 201. C. alpestris, 
Allioni Fl. Pedem. ii. 270; Kunth Enum. ii. 479. C. gynobasis, Vill. 
Dauph. ii. 206; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. viii. 25, t. 259. C. diversiflora, Hos! 
Gram. Austr. i. 53, t. 70. 
SIND, Pinwill.— DisTRIB. Westward to Europe. Also (subspecies) in N. 
America, 
Glabrous. Stems 6-12 in., ceespitose on a harsh short rhizome, Leaves usually 
Many, cften as long as stem, scarcely A, in. broad. Terminal male spike 2 by } in., 
dense, pale brown. Lowest fem. spike rarely 1 in. distant, usually ovoid close to 
the upper fem. ; bract very short. (Slender subbasal stems carry often 1 spike 
wholly female or male at top; there is no line to be drawn between this state and 
the common form of 1 male spike with 2 shorter female spikes at its base.) 
135. C. læta, Boott Carex, i. 69, t. 188; slender, spikes 2-3 distant 
cylindric, terminal 1 male, fem. glumes broadly obovate chestnut-purple, 
style 3-fid, utricle obovoid-ellipsoid trigonous pilose tip short-triangular 
beakless. Boeck. in Linnea, xli. 199. 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; Tungu, alt. 12-13,000 ft., J. D. H. 
Glabrous. Stems 4-6 in., cæspitose on a small tough woody rootstock. Leaves 
(e? stem, An in. broad, flat. Lowest fem. spike 3 by } in., on peduncle 1} in. ; 
bract sheathing, its free extremity very short. Fem. glumes very broad, tip de- 
pressed-triangular, keel narrowly green. Utricle scarcely 4i in., terminated by a 
small round hole. Nut obovoid, triangular, filling utricle; style short.— Boeckeler 
Cites this as “C. pellucida, Hook. f. et T. Thoms., not of Turcz. C. pellucida, 
urez., was never published, nor does Boeckeler say what it was: the name was 
Sent Boott (by Fischer on an example) who affixed it in ms. to Hooker’s Tungu 
Plant. Turczanimow subsequently published his ms. C. pellucida as C. WK irilowu 
(bt. Baical-Dahur, ii. (pars. 1) 275]; it is very near indeed to C. leta but has more 
acute fem, glumes, and Boott subsequently referred it to C. pediformis, C. A. Mey. 
. 136. C. setosa, Boott Carex, iii. 108, tt. 327, 328, 329; spikes 2-5 
distant slender cylindrie, terminal one male, fem. glumes elliptic acute or 
truncate, style 3-fid, utricle oblong-obovoid trigonous setose narrowed 
rather suddenly into a short oblong scarcely-notched beak. Boeck. in 
^mza, xli. 303. n 
HiMALAYA, alt. 10-12,000ft. Sikkim, J. D. H., &c. GURWHAL, Duthie. Kasn- 
MIR, C, B, ce. 0. 
Glabrons eie is cæspitose on a woody horizontal rhizome, 8-12 in., medinm in 
the Sikkim plant, filiform in the Kashmir. Leaves hardly i stem, D in. broad, 
at. Terminal male spike more than 1 in. in the Sikkim plant, iin in the 
ashmir, pale. Fem. spikes 2 by 4 in. (in the Sikkim type) dense, on a in. erect 
Peduncle ; in the Kashmir plants, fem. spikes 4—} in., delicate, lax, on vom H 
Peduncles. Fem. glumes likewise vary from narrow ovate acute i im) to 
truncate ip Kashmir. Utricle small, shining brown, with few seattere Jong. uivous 
Setze in Hooker's type plant (whence name setosa); in the perfectly npe á ashmir 
Plant utricles are green thin with rather copious short pubescence.— The 
