Fimbristylis. CYPERACEiE 389 



cilialo, nucuia stipilata lenticulari biconvexa la>vi vel lente valido 

 subtiliter punctulata mucronulata 0. F. ferruginea Vahl Enum. 2, 

 0291, _ Del. Fl. Eg. tab. 6, fig. 3. — F Sieberiana K*^. — F. arven- 

 s/5 Vahl Enum. 2, 291. — F. lomatocarpa Ilochst. — F. marginata 

 Labill. 



Hab. in glareosis ad aquas, Gilicia in paludibus ad Mersina (Bal !), Gatao- 

 nia ad fluvium Aksu prope Djihaa Kopri (Haussk 1), Syria littoralis prope 

 Sidonem (Gaill I), Babylonia ad Hanneky (Noe 980 !), Susiana in valle fluvii 

 Chyrsan (Haussk I), Egyptus in ditione Fayum (Nectoux), in Oasi magnd 

 (Schweinfi), regnum Mascate Arabise (Auch. 548!). 



Ar. Geogr. Ghina, India, Nova Hollandia, Nubia et Abyssihia, Senegalia, 

 America tropica. 



2. F. laxa (Vahl Enum. 2, p. 292) annua, culmis filiformibus 

 sulcatis glabris laxe foliatis, foiiis anguste linearibus culmo breviori- 

 bus planis, vaginis puberulis, spiculis ovatis in umbellam simplicem 

 vel compositam disposilis radiis filiformibus inffiqualibus, involucri 

 phyllis 2-5 longioribus umbellam sequanlibus vel superantibus,glumis 

 fuscis anguste albo-marginatis glabris ovatis acutis, stylo bifido fim- 

 briato-ciIiato,nucula obovata biconvexacostulis longitudinaliter et striis 

 transversis eleganter clathrata Q. Scirpus annuus AU. Pedem. tab. 

 88, fig. et F. annua Rsem. et Sch. Rchb. Germ. fig. 734 (forma 

 hnmilior umbellasimplici). — F. diphylla Vahl Enum. 2, 289. — F, 

 communis K'^. — F. polymorpha Bockel. 



Hab. in paludosis, Pontus Lazicus ad ostium flum. Of (Bal!\ Iberia ad fluv. 

 Gyrum (Hoh.), in oryzetis ad Lenkoran (Hoh !), prov. Ghilan Persise ad 

 Ehzeli (Buhse !). 



4r. Geogr. Italia borealis, Africa tropica, P. B. Spei, India, Nova Hollandia,. 

 America boreaiis et tropica. 



3. F. dichotoma (Rottb. Gram. p. 57, tab. 13, fig. 1) annua 

 glaucescens, culmis numerosis saepius pumilis filiformibus subtrigo- 

 nis basi foliatis, foliis anguste linearibus acutatis culmum subaequan- 

 tibus, umbellae compositse vel semidecompositffi radiis ineequalibus, 

 spiculis obkingo-fusiformibus acutiusculis, involucri phyllis 3-6 inse- 

 qualibus inferioribus umbellam seepe superantibas, glumis glabris 

 parvis arcte imbri^atis ovatis prseter carinam prominentcm viridem 

 in mucronem crassiusculura abeuntem membranaceis pallide fusces- 

 centibus, stylo bifido fimbriato-ciliato, Ducuia minima obovata bicon- 

 vexa costulis longitudinalibus et striis transversis eleganter clathrata 

 0. F. dichotoma Vahl Enum. 2, p. 289. — Rchb. Germ. fig. 733. — 

 jP. pallescens Nees 



Hab. in udis, oryzetis^ Graecia in Peloponneso (Guer !), Macedonia et 

 Thi-acia (Friv ! Griseb !), Anatoli^ in Lydia (Boissl), Pamphylia (Heldr!), 

 Gataonia (Haussk !), Gappadocia (Bal'), Syria littorali (Lab ! BllGailll), 

 iEgypto infer, et superiore (Boiss ! Schweinf ! etc), BabylouiS (Noe I), Persiae 

 australi§ monte Sawers in regionem alpinam usque (Haussk 1), Persia bor. 

 (Auch. 5481 !), Iberia et prov. Talysch (Hoh !), Aftghanii (Griff!) et prope 

 Herat (Bge !). 



