Carex.~\ CLXXII. CYPERACE^E. (C. B. Clarke.) 701 



edged, style 2-fid, utricle ellipsoid acuminate ultimately thick crustaceous 

 blackish obscurely nerved, beak short scabrous on margins. Kunth Enum. 

 ii. 374 ; Reickb. Ic. PL Germ. viii. 5, t. 200, fig. 534 ; Boott Garex, iv. 200 

 and Ic. Ined. 676 ; Boeck. in Linn&t, xxxix. p. 50 and in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 xviii. (1881), 105. C. juncifolia, Schk. Riedgr. i. (1801), 26 and ii. 6, t. 6, 

 fig. 32 (non Allioni}, C. glomerata, Host Gram. Austr) i. 34, t. 44 (non 

 Thunb.}. C. Hosti, Sckk. Riedgr. ii. 7, t. Ii, fig. 32. C. duriuscula, G. A. 

 Meyer in Mem. Sav. Etrang. Petersb. i. 214, t. 8; Kuntli Enum. ii. 374. 

 C. arctica, Deinb. ; Fries Novit. Fl. Suec. Mant. iii. 135 ; Anderss Gyp. 

 Scand. 70, t. 3, fig. 13. C. Deinbolliana, J". Gay in Ann. So. Nat. ser. 2, 

 xi. 183. Vignea stenophylla, Reiclib. Fl. Germ. Excurs. 56. Kobresia 

 hyalinolepis, Boeck. Gyp. Nov. i. 39. Elyna capilli folia, Renders. Yarkand, 

 339. Carex sp. Griff. Itin. Notes, 239, nn. 310, 311. 



N. W. HIMALAYA, and W. TIBET from Piti and Kashmir to the Karakorura, alt. 

 8-14,000 ft.< DISTEIB. Mountain and cold Northern regions. 



Very near C. incurva, Lightf. ; in good fruit distinguished therefrom by black 

 thick-walled utricle nearly filled by nut, in a younger state often distinguishable by 

 prominent glistening white edge of" glumes. But there are examples referred to C. 

 stenophylla, Wahl. by Boott that are here placed under C. incurva, Lightf. or C. 

 divisa, Hudson. Many examples of C. stenophylla are referred in herbaria to Kolresia 

 (which is separated by the 3-fid style, but a 3-fid style occurs in Carex stenophylla.) 

 In a Himalayan example (Lance n. 285 in Herb. Kew) the ripe fruiting spikes are 

 elongate, the lowest spike i inch distant, but the shining margins of glume and the 

 black crustaceous nuts are exactly as in C. stenophylla. The characters taken from 

 roughness of stem, breadth and incurving of leaves, &c., mentioned carefully by 

 European authors, were found not to be valid by Boott. 



3. C. divisa ? Suds. Fl. Angl. 348 ; rhizome horizontal, spikes ovoid 

 androgynous male at top forming one ovoid or oblong or interrupted com- 

 pound spike, glumes brown, style 2-fid, utricle ovoid acuminate stout 

 moderately nerved, beak short scabrous on margins. Good, in Trans. Linn. 

 SGC. ii. 157, t. 19, fig. 2 ; Kunth Enum. ii. 372 ; Reiclib. Ic. Fl. Germ. viii. 

 7, t. 205, fig. 545 ; Boott Oarer, iv. 186 and Ic. Ined. 631 ; Boeck. in 

 Linnsea, xxxix. 55 and in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 105. C. rivularis, Schk. 

 Riedgr. i. 30, t. Cc.' fig. 87. C. austri-ica, Sckk. I. c. ii. 10, t. Qqq, fig. 157. 

 C. Bertolonii, Sckk. l.c.ii. 5, t. D fig. 18 and t. Rrrr, fig. 202. C. coacta, 

 Boott in Proc. Linn. Soc. i. (1846), 285 and in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 133. 

 C. curaica, var. y coarcta, Boott Carex iv. 204. C. curaica, Boiss. Fl. Orient. 

 iv. 402. 



W. HIMALAYA (Boott.') DISTKIB. Cabul to Britain. 



Stems 1-2 ft., or in some Cabul examples 3-6 in. Leaves often f stem, narrow, 

 margins usually incurved when dry. Infl. 2 by in., interrupted at base (in well- 

 developed examples). Lowest bract usually i inch, but sometimes overtopping infl. 

 Ftm. glumes ovate, hardly mucronate, brown, scarious margin narrow. Utricle 

 greenish or yellowish, ultimately brown, somewhat thickened ; nerves 5-7 on plane 

 face, slender, 11-13 on convex face rather stronger; beak shortly bifid. Much 

 stouter than C. incurva and C. stenophylla, and utricles longer. Resembles gener- 

 ally C. foliosa and C. nubigena, Don ; the plane face of the utricle is in C.foliosa 

 hardly striate at all ; in C. nubigena strongly multistriate ; the utricle of C. divisa 

 comes between the two. C divisa, Huds. can generally be distinguished by it's 

 shorter bracts, browner glumes, and more creeping rhizome. The Kuram Valley 

 examples of Aitchison were collected [alt. 10,000 ft.] just outside the then frontier, 

 and the Kashmir examples of Jacquemont cited by Boott are referred here to 0. 

 vulpinaris, Nees, but C. divisa, Huds. is almost certain to occur within British 

 India. 



