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obtusus apice 2-dentatus. Nucula fusco-castanea trigono-oblonga 14- mm. longa 

 1 mni. lata apice obtusa ad styluui abcuns basi actita ad stipitem. 0.3 mm. 

 longuni abeuns trigona ad angulos prominente carinata facie leviter concava ; 

 stylus basi pins minus incrassatus apice 3 fidus. 

 HAB. Hakkutaisan, leg. U. Mom, Sept. 1910. 



Submenus Eucarex Coss et GERM. 



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Utricles not, or very shortly, rostrate. 



Female spicules densely flowered, bracts not vaginate . . Sect. Maxima'. 

 Female spicules loosely flowered, bracts usually vaginate. Nutlet. 



mitrate at the apex Sect. Mitratacs 



Utricles long or shortly rostrate, beak 2-toothed rarely entire. 

 Leaves never septato-nodosc (excepting Carex cdliiformis) 



Scales dark purple or dark brown Sect. Fngidcc. 



Scales ^ ferrugineous or pale, rarely dark-brown. 

 Beaks of utricles 2-toothed or entire. 



Spicules f mostly loosely flowered, bracts mostly vaginate ; 

 utricles nearly straight ovate-elliptical or narrower, 



pale green obsoletely nervose Sect. Symenoehkenoe. 



Spicules $ densely flowered, bracts mostly not vaginate ; 

 utricles at length divaricate, ovate, rich brown or 



dark green, many-nerved Sect. Tamidce. 



Beaks of the utricles conspicuously 2-toothed , 



Sect. Rhomboidales. 



Leaves septato-uodose (Carex pumila excepted) 

 Utricles glabrous 



Utricles nienibranaceous long rostrate. . . Sect. Pseudo-cypereae. 



Utricles subcoriaceous or suberous shortly rostrate 



Sect. Paludosce. 



Utricles more or less hirsute Sect. Hirtcc. 



Sect. Maxiniw. 



Carex macula! a BOOTT ; IMATSUM. et HAYATA Enum. PI. Formos. p. 

 495. 



