410 CYPERAGE^ Carex. 



pitoso fibris veslito fasciculos steriles etculmos bai^i foliatos debiles 

 ssepe reclinalos edente, foliis rigidulis planis carinatis margine sca- 

 bris acuminatis culmo brevioribus, spica mascula terminali solilaria 

 tenui oblongo-cylindrica, femineis 2-3 subquinquefloris globosis 

 superioribus basi bractea a basi vaginala subulata suffultis subsessi- 

 hus inter se et spicae masculae approximatis infima subradicali longis- 

 sime pedunculata decumbente, glumis oblongo-lanceolatis concavis 

 obtusiusculis muticis fructu longioribus dorso viridibus trinerviis 

 margine fuscescenli-membranacels, stigmatibus tribus, utriculis basi 

 iittenuatis substipitatis obovatis triquetris nervosis tenuiter puberu- 

 lis brevissime rostralis ore subretuso '^. Rchb. Gerra. tab. 259. — 

 C. Halleria7ia Asso Syn. No 922.— Boott lab. 415-416.— C. alpestris 

 All. Ped. 2, p. 270. 



Hab. in collibus calcareis regionis montana, Attica in monte Hyraetto 

 <Boiss ! Heldr!), Peloponnesus prope Gola.ss in regione inferiore Taygeti 

 <Pichl I),Thracia (Griseb.). Tauria et Iberia fM. B. Hoh I), ditio Talysch (G. A. 

 Mey), Persia bor.-orientalis ad Siaret (Bge !). 



Ar. Geogr. Europa media et ausfralis a Gallia, Hejvetia et Germania aus- 

 tralibus ad Dalniatiam et regionem Danubialem, Africa borealis, Texas et 

 Mexico in America boreali. 



37. G. Transylvanica (Schur Enum. Transylv, p.717) rhizomate 

 ^espitoso fibris vestito surculoso, foliis planis striatis margine scabri- 

 dis, culmis debilibus hasi folialis saepe reclinatis, spica mascula ter- 

 minali solitaria ohlongo-cylindrica glumis pallide brunneis ellipticis 

 niuticis, femineis 1-3 subsessilibus ovalis 6-8-floris bractea a basi 

 vaginante setacea suffultis inter se el spicse masculae approximatis, 

 infima interdum radicali longissime pedunculala decumbente, glumis 

 femineis soepius mucronatis utriculo suhlongioribus, stigmalibus ter- 

 nis, ulriculis pubescentihus nervalis basi atteriuatis slipilalis pyri- 

 formi-clavatis lale et breviter conico-rostratis, achenio apice in cu- 

 pulam sessilem dilatalo %. C. debilis Boiss. et Bal. in Sched. 1866. 



Hab. in sylvaticis circa Rhize Ponti Lazici maritimi (Bal !). FI. Jun. 



Semipedali.s rarius 9-10-pollicaris, folia sesquilineara lata. Affinis C. basilari 

 Jord. ditfert gracilitate, spicis femineis brevioribus paucifloris sessilibus, glu- 

 rais non longe cuspidatis. Specimina Lazica Transylvanicis graciliora, folia 

 £ulmos sequantia vel superantia, utriculi ssepe pauciores magis nervati. 



Ar. Geogr. Transylvania. 



38. C praecox (Jacq. Auslr. 5, p 23, tah 446) rhi^omate stolo- 

 iiifero, collo tibroso, culmis gracilihus abbreviatis patenti-arcuatis 

 obtuse triquelris, foliis firmis culmo brevioribus erectis vel arcuatis 

 planis, spiculis approximalis mascula solilaria oblongo-clavaia, femi- 

 neis 2-3 ovalo-oblongis sessilibus vel inferiore suhpedunculata, hrac- 

 teis membranaceis inferiore vaginanle in cuspidem Miuiilatam hre- 

 vem rarius spiculam squantem contracta, glumis pallide hrunrieis 

 ovatis ssepe mucronatis vel acuminalis fructum fequantihus, stigma- 

 tibus ternis, ulriculis pubesceulihus obscure nervatis pyritormi-tri- 



