Caricec.] OXCIX. CYPERACEZE. 1073 
Kunth, Enum., Pl.ii 524. Steud. Syn. Fl. Glum. ii. 243.  Backel. in Linnea, xli. 339. — Hook. f. 
Handb. N. Zeal, Fl. 308. Benth. Fl. Austral. vii, 433. Raoul, Choix Pl. N. Zel. t. 5. Hook. f. Fl. N. 
Zel. 1. 64; FI. Antarct. 0. 51, 1455. Fl. Tasm. t. 162,153. Thou. Mel. t. 5, 6. C. Gay, Fl. Cl. t. 72. 
Genus a Clarkeo in sectiones 2 dividitur: 1. 55i ]ra, filamentis fili il Species omnes 
australes Americans v. gerontogez. |2. Platyandra, Slasuohtis complanatis $pe antheris latioribus. 
Species omnes American. 
61. Carex, Linn, Gen. n. 1046.—Spicule unisexuales ; 4 multiflore, terminales dis- 
tincteque v. spicas fomineas apice v. basi continuantes, glumis undique imbricatis. 
Stamina 3, rarius pauciora. Spicule 9 1i-florz, spicatz, ad axillas bractearum glumi- 
formium ET V. breviter stipitatz, gluma unica marginibus connatis utriculum sepe 
lageniforme (perigyniwm auct. plur.) florem includens formante, ore parvo ssepius 
2-dentato ; rhachilla (spicule rhachis) intra utriculum sepe ultra florem. producta, seti- 
formis v. linearis planaque, utrieulum non v. vix excedens. Bet hypogyns 0. Stylus 
basi haud incrassatus, ex utriculo protrusus, ramis stigmatosis 2 v. 3 filiformil Nux 
utrieulo swpe nonnihil aucto inclusa, compressa v. 3-quetra.—Herb:e perennes, foliis 
gramineis ad basin caulis confertis rariusque secus caulem dissitis. Spiculr mascule si 
distinct:e terminales, solitariw, v. plures, quarum una terminalis, paucze sub ea laterales ; 
spicze foemineze v. androgyn:e infra masculas Y poda masculis distinctas varie dispositio, 
paucee distinctzeque v. varie capitatze v. liis seu spicis andro- 
gynis flores masculi ad apicem v. rarius ad basin ded bractea spiculas foemineas (seu 
utriculum) subtendentes in glumas florum masculorum abeuntes iisque simillim:e, nisi 
sepius paullo majores laxiusque imbricatze v. interdum subdissit:.  Bractes sub spicis 
inferioribus v. sub ramis paniculwe interdum foliacerse, sub spicis spieulisve summis vix 
glumis majores. 
Species ultra 800 et verisimiliter ultra 500 retinendz, per regiones temperatas frigi- 
dasque utriusque orbis copiose dispersz, inter tropicos paues nisi in montibus, Kunz, Epwm. Pl. 
ji.368. Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum, ii. 182. | Beckel. in Linnea, xxxix. 14, xl. 327, xli. 145. Franch et 
Savat. Enwmn. Pl. Japon.ii. 193. — Liebm. Mex. Halfgr. 75. — Benth. Fl. Austral. vii. 435. Hook. | 
J. Handb. N. Zeal. Fi. 310. — Boott, Illustr. Gen. Carex cum tabb. 600. — Schkuhr, Beschr. und 
"Abbild. Riedgr. Wittenberg, 1801 et 1806 cum (abb. 93, e Kunze, Suppl. Leipzig, 1840, 1850, cum 
tabb.50. Host, Gram. Austr. i. t. 41 ad 100; iii. t. 77 ad 79; iv. 4. 75, 76, 79 ad 96.  Reichb. Ic. 
FI. Germ. (. 194 ad 277. C. A. Mey. in Mem. Sav. Etr. Acad. Petersb.i. t. 4 ad 14. A. Rich, FI. 
N. Zel. t. 21, 22. — Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. t. 149 ad 144; Fl. N. Zel. t. 63; Fl. Tasm. t. 150, 151. 
Brongn. in Duperr. Voy. Cog. Bot. 1.25. — C. Gay, Fl. Chil. t. 73, f. 8, 5. — Hook. Fl. Bor. Amer. 
t. 207 ad 226. Torr. Fl. N. York, t. 142 ad 145, 147. 
"Genus vastum, faeillime di d quoad infl i polymorph sed ch 
certos ad sectiones formandas non probet. Species ab auctoribus distribuuntur in series imprimis 
ad numerum et rationem spicularum maseularum cum: spicis fomineis, ViNEA, Zeauv. in Lestib. 
Essai Fam. Cyper. 2, genus propositum fuit ad species stylo 2-fido, et TRasus, S. Gray, Nat. Arr. 
rit, PI. ii. 53, ad species stylo 3-fido,.sed distinctio minime naturalis, et character in speciebus 
nonnullis inconstans. Rafinesque i in Journ. Phys. lxxxix. 106, genus in 4 dividit: CagEx, Scumi4, 
TareLIMA et TRioDUs ; eb Schur in Enum. Pl. Trans. 696 et seqq. pariter genera 4 accepit: Canzx, 
Psyrroruona (Ehrh. Beitr. iv. 146 z0men), V1iaNEA, Beauv., c ViaNANTBA, Schur. Heuffel in Flora, 
1844, 527, 528, species plures generice separavit sub nominibus Mauxscura, Levcoarocuis, Carri- 
STACHYS, GENERSICHIA et CRYPTOGLOCHIN. " 
Psevpocanex, Mig. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. ii. 146, o J: aponia, floribus statu juniore ab &àuctoro 
examinatis, ex descriptione videtur Caricis species, utriculo juniore pubescente pro ovario descripto. 
ScnzumawwEnn, Monch, Meth. Suppl. 119, est C. cyperina, Linn. eui flores pauci maseuli ad 
basin spiez feminez, quod in speciebus pluribus observatur et character auctoris ceterum vix 
intelligibilis est. 
C. microglochin, Wahlenb., rhachilla spicule feemineze ex utriculo exserta et saepe leviter uncinata 
Uncinie accedit. C, gaimardioides, Em. Desv. in C. Gay, Fl. Chil. vi. 202, t. 73, f. 2, est. Scirpus 
semisubterraneus, Besckel., staminibus setisve jam delapsis et pericarpio pro utrieulo delineato et 
deseripto. , 
De utriculo ot ovario coit Kunth in Wiegm. Archiv, i. ii, $49, t. 6, et ii. i, 213, t. 5. 
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