CarexJ] CLXXII. CYPEEACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) 711 



pale, slender, or shorter thicker purple-chestnut. Fern, spikes often 1 hy in., 

 often 2-7 fascicled with 1 or 2 remote below, frequently with 1-6 rectangularly 

 divaricate short branches. Utricles greyish with green margins, and 1-4 irregular 

 green nerves. Appears always thus irregular ; the rhizome is usually woody, short, 

 hut sometimes the stem at base appears slender decumbent rooting in mud. Easily 

 recognized, as being the only low -level Indian species at all resembling C. rigida. 



31. C. rigida, Gooden. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ii. 193, t. 22, fig. 10; 

 stems 4-8 (rarely 10-12) in., leaves (dried) flat or margins near base slightly 

 recurved, spikes 3 or 4 close together cylindric short dense, bracts not 

 overtopping the infl., styles 2-fid, utricle ellipsoidal flattened smooth 



40 ; Kuntli Enum. ii. 410. C. vulgaris, var. alpina, Boott Garex, iv. 167, 

 tt. 568-574. C. orbicularis, Boott in Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 254, & in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. xx. [1851] 134. 



ALPINE HIMALAYA and W. TIBET, alt. 9-13,000 ft., from Gilgit, Giles, to 

 Sikkim, /. D. H. DISTEIB. Cooler parts of the World. 



Stoloniferous. Leaves often curved. Spikes -f by -% in. Fern, glumes ovate- 

 triangular, acute scarcely mucronate, chestnut-purple. In the original C. orbicularis 

 Boott, the utricles are unusually large, but not larger than in some European 

 forms. 



32. C. vulg-aris, Fries Nov. Mant. iii. 153, & Summ. Veg. 230 ; stems 

 often 10-20 in., leaves (dried) conduplicate, spikes less close longer, utricle 

 more or less slenderly nerved, otherwise as 0. rigida. Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. 

 viii. 13,tt.-226, 227; Boott Carex, iv. 166, tt. 557-567; Boeck. in Linnsea, 

 xl. 416. C. csespitosa, SchJc. Riedgr. i. 57, & ii. 27, figs. A a, t. 85, a, b, & 

 B b, t. 85, c, d, e ; Kunth Enutn. ii. 411. 



N.W. HIMALAYA and W. TIBET, alt. 10-13,000 ft., from Gilgit, Giles, to Lahoul, 

 Jaeschke, frequent. DISTRIB. Cooler parts of the World. 



Some of the material Mr. Baker considers good Yorkshire 0. vulgaris, but there 

 are many examples which he considers do not mutch either C. vulgaris, Fries, or C. 

 rigida, Gooden. 



Var. j3 distracta ; spikes less close, lowest 2-7 in. distant. Kashmir ; Gurais, 

 alt. 8000 ft., 0. B. Clarke. Altogether unlike any European form, J. G. Baker. 



33. C. erostrata, Boott ms. ; utricles obovoid compressed beakless, 

 otherwise as C. rigida, Strachey Cat. PI. Kumaon, 73 ; Duthie in T. E. 

 Atkins. Gazetteer, x. 618. 



KUMAON; Bar] i Kang Pass, alt. 14,500 ft., Strachey Sc Winterlottom (Garex, 

 n. 22). 



Instead of a minute beak there is a triangular notch at the top of the utricle. 

 " I cannot recollect ever seeing any C. rigida like it," J". Q. Baker. 



Subgenus II. CAREX proper. Style-branches 3 (see also 2. C. steno- 

 phylla). 



Sect. 4. KAR.E. Stem with 1 spike (see also 42. C. radicalis), fern, at base. 

 Seta (i.e. rudiment of the suppressed upper part of spikelet) often present within 

 utricle. Bract hardly longer than fern, glumes. 



34. C. microglochin Wall, in Handl. Kong. Akad. Stockh. 140, & 

 Fl. Lapp. 224; spike i-| in., style-branches 3, utricles lanceolate acu- 



