400 GYPEBACE^ Carex. 



repenle slolones foliosos distanles basi dense vagiuatos et fibrosos 

 edente, foliis involuto-filiformibus acurninatis culmo obtusangulo 

 laevri brevioribus, spica coraposita ovata vel obionga castanea, spiculis 

 8-6 congestis androgynis apice masculis bractc^ late ovata breviter 

 cuspidata suffultis, glurais ovatis et ovato-lanceolatis acutis, stigraati- 

 bus binis, utriculis maximis membranaceis vesicarie inflatis globosis 

 vel ellipticis subtiliter striatis pallide castancis iucidisabrupte etbre- 

 vissime rostellato-mucronatis ore bifido %. Boott tab. 576-677. 



Hab. in desertis arenosis Kisylkum Turkestaniae et circa Buchara (Lehm I), 

 in Afifghani^ (Griff !) 



Gulmi seraipedales rarius pedales, Species nulli affinis, utriculo 4-10 lineas 

 longo 4-5 lato insignis, nucula utrieulo multoties minor i V>-2 lin. longa 

 ovato-orbiculala compressa. 



Ar. Geogr. Rossia aastro-orientalis, Sibiria Altaica. 



40. C. incurva (Lightf. Fl. Scol. 544, tab. 24) radice stolonibus 

 elongatis repente, culmis nanis laevibus incurvis folia canaliculata 

 sequantibus, spiculis androgynis superne masculis subsenis in capitu- 

 lum ovatum aggregatis, gluniis fuscescentibus ovato-oblongis acutis et 

 obtusis fructu subbrevioribus, stigmatibus biuis, utriculis membrana- 

 ceis ovatis inflatis gibbo-convexis enerviis apice attenuatim acumi- 

 nato-rostratis rostri leevi apice oblique truncato %. Rchb. Germ. 

 t. 199. — G. juncifolia All. Ped. tab. 92. — G. amphiiogos G. Koch 

 Linn. XXL p. 915 ex Ledeb. 



Hab. in .arenosis maritimis arctlcis et in glareosis alpinis, prov. Gaucasicse 

 (ex G. Koch), Affghania (Griff. exs. 89 (ex Boott). E ditione non vidi. 



Ar. Geogr. Scotiae, Scandinavise montes, Alpium jugum, Sibiria, regio Hima- 

 laica, Groenlandia, America arctica et montes Scopulosi. 



11. C. stenophylla (Wahlenb. A.ct. Holm. 1803 N« 21) rhizo- 

 mate stoloniefro repente, eollo fibroso, foliis filiformibus convo- 

 luto-canaliculatis saepe curvatis culmo humili brevioribus, spiculis 

 S-6 androgynis superne masculis, in spicara rotundatam vel ovato- 

 oblongam congestis ferrugineis, bracteis breviter cuspidatis, glumis 

 ovatis obtusis vei acutiusculis iate albo-marginatis, stigmatibus binis, 

 utriculis basi attenuatis ovatis plauo-convexis 9-11-nerviis in rostrum 

 breve margine serrulato-scabrum ore raembranaceura retusum abeun- 

 tibus basi attenuatis %. Rchb. Gerra. tab. 208. — C. glomerata 

 Host Gram. lab. 44. 



Hab. in collibus, pratis humidis prsesertim regionis moutanse et alpinse, 

 Libauus (Post!), Armenia Turcica prope Erzerum et in monte Techdagb. 

 7-8000' (Huel!), re«io alpina Gaucasi (G. A. Meyl), Iberia ad Tiflin (Szovl) 

 Armenia Rossica et Persia borealis (Buhse I), Persiae australis montes 7-12000 

 in montibus Kuh Delu et Kuh Daena (Ky. 483 1), Sawers et Nur (Hausskl), 

 Affghania in valle.Kuram 7000'-10000' (Aitchl). 



/3 planifolia. — Folia saepius explicata latiora. — C. pachystylis 

 J. Gay Ann. Sc. Nat. X, 1838, p. 801. 



