CYPERACEAE juss (Caiex.) 479 



293. C. SARDA lJnA\ Hort. 2. 328. Caule Iriqueiro-cana- 

 liculato, ilorso laevi, aciebus 2 scahris; foliis caulcm superanli- 

 bus, angustis, fere filiformibiis, scabriusculis; spiculis binis, pe- 

 dunculatis; bractea foliacea; vagina ampla, non minus foliacea; 

 valvis linearibus, longe acutatis, virentibus ; perigyniis laevissi- 

 mis; rostro longo, paruni bicuspidato. LhJi. — Sardinia. — 

 Praecedenti valde affiiiis, differt valvis subfoliaceis, linearibus, 

 angustissimis, longissime acutatis. (Link.) 



29i. C. AMBIGUA Link in Schrad. Journ. 1799. 308. 

 Schkuhr. Car. 2. U. t. Bbb. fg. 117. JVdld. Spec. L 249 et herb. 

 K. 17179. (frustulum.) Spicis omnibus radicalibus, pedunculatis ; 

 mascula solitaria; androgynis pluribus, superne masculis, basi 

 floribus 2 femineis instructis; stigmatibus 3; fructibus obovato- 

 triquetris, brevissiuic mucronatis, glabris. fFilld. C. valcsiaca 

 Wahlenb. in Act. Ilolm. 1803. 155. {excl. syn. Sjit.) C. dimor- 

 pha Brot. (fide Spreng. *) — Lusitania. 24. — Spicae andro- 

 gynae; florcs masculi circiter 6, supcriores; feminei 2, inferio- 

 res. Squamae masculae oblongae, carinatae, obtusae, dorso vi- 

 rides, lateribus fuscescentes, glabrae; femineae ovato-oblongae, 

 virides, marginibus hyalino-albidae, glabrae ; inferior aristata; 

 superior mucronata. Utriculi (immaturi) squamam paulo su- 

 perantes, oblongi, obtusi, virides, glabri. (Descr. secundum fru- 

 stulum herb. Wiild.) Speciebus sectionis sequentis affinior? 



295. C. ALPESTRIS Atl. Ped. n. 2329. Wahlenb. in Act. 

 Holm. 1803. 157. Willd. Spec. 4. 284 et herb. 17240. Bieb. Flor. 

 2. 389. Schknhr. Car. 2. 62. Beichenb. Germ. 65. **) Spica 

 mascula solitaria; femineis 3, quinquefloris; 2 approximatis, 

 sessilibus; infima radicali, longissime pedunculata ; stigmatibus 

 3; fructibus obovato-oblongis, triquetris, brevissime rostratis, 

 ore obliquo, squamam oblongam aequantibus. Willd. C. gyno- 

 basis Vill. JJelph. 2. 207. Schkuhr. Car. 1. 71. t. €. /o." 35. 

 Gaudin. Agrost. 2. 138. Hoppe, Caric. 69. C. diversiflora 

 Host. Gram. 1. 53. t. 70. C. Halleriana Asso, Syn. n. 922. t. 

 9./. 2. {Hall. Helv. n. 1385.) C. anomala Pall. Ind. Taur. C. 

 rhizantha Gmel Syst. 144. C. ptychocarpa Link. C. depressa 

 Willd.herb. n. 17176 (specimenjuvenile)^ nec? Link, nec? Schktthr. 

 — Austria, Ilungaria, Helvetia, Italia, Gallia, Hispania, liltora 

 maris Caspium. 2^ — Squamae masculae subellipticae, ohlon- 

 gae, obtusae, hyalino-alhidae, carina viridi, apice ferrugineae, 

 e,'labrae; femineae breviores, sed latiores, subellipticae, acutae, 

 dorso virides, lateribus hyalino-alhidae, superne ferrugineo-mar- 

 ^inatae, glabrae. Utriculi immaturi ohovato-oblongi, triangula- 



*) Reichenbach cum C. Ljnkii conjungit. 



**) C. alpestris Dewey in Sillimaii's Am. Jnurn. 7. 268. Torrey in 

 ^chweinitz. Munogr. of Carex in Annals of the Lyceiim of N. York: 1. 

 !41. (Beck. Flor. 439 est eadem ac C. Torreyaua, fide Dewev 1. c. 

 0. 280. ^ 



