&/ior>' . of the Genus Carex./od Xl Ml 329 



rostrati, costati, setis numerosis exiguis scaberrimi, glumis 

 breviores, apice altfe bifurci. 



This species agrees in some respects with the Carex hirta ; but 

 this last belongs to a different section, having terminal, distinct, 

 male spikes ; the leaves are also green, and generally clothed 

 with soft hairs ; the fruit is hairy, with a shorter beak, constantly 

 longer than the glumes, which are broader, more scariose, and 

 terminated by a much shorter and less rigid point. In the male 

 spikes the glumes are broad, ferrugineous, and shortly pointed. 

 The Carex hirta being trigynous is also an important differential 

 mark. 



C. longipes, digyna ; vaginis elongatis pedunculo 4-pl6 bre- 

 vioribus, spicis cylindraceis erectis apice masculis, glumis 

 ellipticis aristatis, arillis ovatis costatis glabris rostratis. 



Habitat in Nepaliae alpibus. Wallich. % . -'fr r^ >-r'> 



Radix fibrosa. Culmus erectus, lentus, sesquipedalis, obtus^ 

 trigonus, sulcatus, glaber, nitidus. Folia linearia, plana, 

 viridia, striata, lineam lata, margine scabra, culmis bre- 

 viora, apice mucronata. Bract ece foliaceae, pedunculorum 

 longitudine : vaginis elongatis, sulcatis, glabris, pollicari- 

 bus V. ultr^. Pedimculi erecti, graciles, ancipiti-compressi, 

 4 — 7 poUices longi : angidis apicem versus scabris. Spica 

 cylindraceae, erectae, poUicares, simplices, rar6 basi spi- 

 cule, unic4 laterali auctae, apice semper terminatae spicule 

 mascul^. Gluma ellipticae, pallid^ fuscescentes, dorso 

 virides, nervo medio in aristam longam scabrfe denticula- 

 tam producto. Arilli ovati, compressiusculi, aristis glu- 

 marum multci breviores, costis pluribus notati, virides, 

 apice longiiis rostrati, bifurci, omni parte, nisi rostrum, 

 glabri, parum lucidi. 



6. C. seti- 



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