CYPEIUCEAE JUSS. (Carex.) m 



basi acqiialls. Specics dislincta, niedia inlor C. cancsconicm 

 (curfam Good.) ct eioii/i;atam (lloppe); ab liac vix distingucnda; 

 statura niinor verisimiliter loco natali dependot. (Schkuhr.) 



88. C. CURTA Good. in Linn. Trans. 2. 145. IVilld. in Acl. 

 Berol. 1794. t. 2. f. 3. llost. Gram. 1. t. 48. Schkuhr. Car. 1. 

 43. 2. 21. /. C. f. 13. Smilh. Brit. 3. 967. {e.xcl. Leers.) Willd. 

 Spcc. 4. 241 et 'herh. 17166. Engl. Bot. t. 1386. Pursh. Flor. 

 1. 37. Muehlenb. Gram. 232. Dewey in Sitliman's Americ. Journ. 

 8. 93. Torrey in Schiveinitz. Monogr. of Care.c in Annuls of 

 ihe Lyceum of N. York 1. 318. Ledeb. Flor. 4. 211. Spica an- 

 drO|£fyna, coniposita; spiciilis subscnis, alternis, approximatis, 

 cylindraceis, infcrne niascuHs; stigmatihus hinis; fructihus ova- 

 tis, plano-convexis, acutiusculis, ore iategris, ercctis^ sqnama 

 ovata acuta longiorihus. IVitld. C. canoscens Linn. Suec. 754. 

 842. EJusd. Sp.2. 1383. Lighff. Scot.2.550. Flor. Dan. t. 285. 

 Wahlenh. inAct. Holm. 1803.147. (excl. /?.) Hoppe, Caric. 29. C. ci- 

 nerea Wifh. Brit. 1033. Poll.Palat. n. 880. C. hrizoides Huds.Angl. 

 406. C. tenella Ehrh. Gram. »». 98. C. sterilis Willd. herb. n. 

 17109. fol. 1. (fde Schlechfend. in Linnaea 10. 259.) C. Richardi 

 ThuUl. Par. 1. 482. (fde Spreng. Syst. 3. 811.) 3Iich. Flor. 2. 

 170. Vignea canescons Beichenb. Germ. 58. — Europa, Cauca- 

 sus occidentalis, rcgio Altaica, Camtschatca (Beechey.), Ame- 

 rica borealis, Lahrador. 2j. — Squamae femineae late ovatae 

 vel subrotundo-ovatae, acutae vcl obtusiusculao, uninerviae, hya- 

 lino-albidae, carina viridi, glabrao. Utriculi squamam i supe- 

 rantes, ovati, breviter pedicellati, apice obtusi, antice fissi, pla- 

 no-convexi, obtusanguli, spongioso-mcmbranacci, nervosi, stra- 

 mineo-flavidi, glabri, supcrne ad angulos scahri. Stylus bifidus, 

 basi aequalis. Stigmata fcrruginoa, viilosula. Achenium (in^ma- 

 turum) ovato-subrotundum, comprcssum, pallidum. Pursh (Flor. 

 1. 37) Caricem Richardi incaufe ad C. lagopodioidem ducit. C. 

 canesccns Torr. cum spcciminibus europaeis optime congruit. 

 (Schlechtend. in Linnaoa 10. 260.) 



89. C. SDriLIS Urville, Flore des Malouines 28. Brongn. in 

 Duperrey., II., bot. 150. Foliis liuearibus^ planis , subcarinatis, 

 apicc subulatis, culmo triquctro striato scabriusculo longiorihus; 

 spiculis androgynis, inferne masculis, subsenis, sessilihus, altcr- 

 nis, ellipticis (etiam junioribus); supcrioribus approximatis ; 

 squamis ovatis, acutiusculis, squarrosis, ncrvo unico viridi ; ur- 

 coolis ovato-lanceolatis, vix bidentatis (nec marginatis, nec dcn- 

 ticulatis) ; sligmatibus binis. Brongn. — Insulac Maclovianae. Ti^ 

 — Simillima habitu C. brlzoidi. (Urv.) Proxima C. curtac. 

 (Brongn.) 



90. C. AXILLARIS Good. in Linn. Trans. 2, 151. <. 19. /". 1. 

 Schlcuhr. Car. 1. 47. 2. 22. t. B. fig. 62. Wahlenb. in Act. Holm. 

 1803. 148. Engl. Bot. t. 993. Willd. Spec. 4. 239 et herh. n. 

 17163. fol. 1. Hoppe, Caric. 32. Splca androgyna, composita; 

 spiculis alternis, inferioribus subtcmatls, rcmotls, Inferne mas- 



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