486 CYPERACEAE. (Carex. 
the male flowers 3 or fewer, without scales or bristles. Ovary 1 the 
female enclosed (as in Uncinia) in a bottle-shaped or inflated hes or 
perigyne, contracted at the top, with a small oblique or bidentate opening 
through which protrudes the 2- or 3-cleft Eup Achene lenticular or 
trigonal, enclosed in the persistent utricle. aves grass-like, mostly 
radical or on the lower part of the ste Spikes either solitary or few, 
one terminal, the others mostly distant ioe stalked, or forming a terminal 
erie spike or panicle. 
t genus (500—600 species), a y ieee over the cold and temperate regions of 
ihe: ered world and the mountainous parts of the tropics. 
some species, as in our roan the utricle contains a small — not pict 
and neyer so long as in Uneinia, but which nevertheless must be int piacaansig the 
dimentary axis of a spikelet, just as in that genus ina Pitasitkies rts eg ach 
e b na tin margi 
flowers nothing of the kind exists the whole male inflorescence may rte consi as as 
a spikelet. For the sake of brevity, however, the term spike has been applied in the 
following to both i rescences. 
inflo: 
Spikes all waisexudl —— rifid 1. C. montis Eeka. 
e lateral ones androgysous,§ stanainate above: 
Style trifid; ginmes awned, pa@ : 2. C. Oahuenst 
Style bifid; glu es acuminate, dark. : : ; eG vapnsicte ni 
Spikes all sit oct staminate above, ged i Jlongate nar- 
row panicle 4, C, brunned. 
Spikes all androgynous, pistillate above, short and crowded in a 
dense head 5. C. propingua. 
Of ol Se Boott, sched. in herb. Gray (Remy 142), Mann, Enum. no. 532, I know 
nothin 
— Stems 1—2 ft. long, obtusely trigonal, 
a above, Raitt foliose in the lower third and carrying one 
r two smaller leaves in support of the lowest spikes. Leaves as long 
as the stem or longer, on long and broad very thin sheaths which are open 
above, i—2” broad below, thick coriaceous, convolute or deeply channelled, 
subulate near the apex, ielaned smooth. Spikes unisexual, the terminal 
one male, the 2 or 3 lateral ones female, the lowest !/2—2'/2' below the 
terminal one. Male spike slender, !/z—1‘ long, its glumes narrow oblong or 
lanceolate, Ba 3", “ acute, stramineous, with hyaline margins, 1—3-nerv 
emale spikes ceili: ain cylindrical or fusiform, 1 /2—/4‘ long, 21-3" 
road, Bicias appressed, ovate, not mucronate, 2“, green, chartaceous, 
rather boat-shaped, with a pe smooth keel and 2 lateral nerves. Utricle 
as long as the glume, thin, smooth, complanate, elliptico-oblong, not 
ed, shortly apiculate and perenit Achene half the length of the 
utricle, elie: plano-convex, ribbed on the outside or almost trigonal. 
Style strictly terminal, erect or geniculate at the base, twice as long a8 
the achene, trifid. 
Top of Eeka, Maui! 
