712 CLXXII. crPEBACE^E. (C. B. Clarke.) [Caret. 



minate glabrous striate, ripe deflexed with seta protruded. Sclik. Riedqr. 

 '62, t. Ssss, fig. 110; Kunth Enum. ii. 424; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ.viii. 

 3, t. 196; Boott Carex, iv. 174, t. 589; Boeck. in Linnxa, xxxix. 32. 

 Qncinia microglochin, Spreng. Syst. iii. 830 ; G. B. Clarice in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. xx. 401. U. europaea, J. Gay in Flora [1827] 28. Leptolepis tibetica, 

 Boeck. Gyp. Nov. i. 31 (partly, i. e. Schlagintweit, n. 6450). 



N.W. HIMALAYA and W. TIBET, alt. 11-15,000 ft. ; from the Karakorum, 

 Thomson, to Kunawur, Jacquemont, frequent. DISTBIB. N. Europe, Asia, Green- 

 land. 



Glabrous. Rhizome slender, very short. Stems 6-12 in., slender. Leaves scarcely 

 length of steins, setaceous. Spike pale brown, in flower hardly -^ in. broad. 

 Fern, glumes ovate, obtuse, obscurely nerved, shorter than utricle. Utricle about 

 i in. (includ. exsert rigid seta often more than in.) ; beak terete, mouth entire. 

 Nut oblong-ellipsoid, brown, about utricle. In Iruit the seta hardens into a 

 straight smooth yellow linear cone filling the mouth of the utricle ; at its apex is 

 often a curved point articulated which sometimes is a rudimentary male fl. Uncinia 

 differs from Carex only by the hooked end of the seta, but the hook is as much de- 

 veloped in C. micro glocliin as it is in U. Kmgii ; and the only reason for not putting 

 C. microglochin into Uncinia is that the latter genus is very nearly confined to the 

 S. Hemisphere. 



35. C. parva, Nees in Wight Contrib. 120; spike |-f in., style- 

 branches 3, utricles lanceolate acuminate long-beaked glabrous striate, 

 ripe deflexed with seta included. Kunth Enum. ii. 419; Boott Carex, i. 56, 

 t. 418 ; Boeck. in Linnssa, xxxix. 38. C. macrorrhyncha, Karel. et JEiril. 

 in Bull. Soc. Hose. iii. [1842] 521. 



HIMALAYA, alt. 11-12,000 ft., from KASHMIR (Deosai), Winterlottom, to SIKKIM 

 (Lachen), J. D. H. DISTBIB. Central Asia. 



Resembles C. microglochin, but stouter in all its parts.' Spike brown or chestnut. 

 Fein, glumes ovate, acute, lower aristate, lowest empty sometimes in. (a bract). 

 Utricle usually % in. and more (much like that of G. microglochin reckoning- in the 

 seta) ; beak slender terete with oblique subentire mouth. Seta sometimes carrying 

 a rudimentary minutely hairy glume, but included. 



36. C. linearis, Boott Carex, i. 51, t. 136; spike 2-3 in. linear, style- 

 branches 3, utricle oblong complete glabrous nerveless beak linear-conic 

 as long as nut with a slit on postioous face extending length of beak. 

 Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxix. 36. C. Esenbeckii, Boott in Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 

 285, & in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 133 (mainly, not of Nees}. C. elynoides, J. 

 Gay ms. Hemicarex sp., Benth. in Gen. PI. iii. 1072. H. trinervis, C. B. 

 Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 382, chiefly (not Kobresia trinervis, Boeck.). 

 Uncinia nepalensis, Nees ms. 



HIMALAYA, alt. 11-14,000 ft.; from KASHMIR, Levinge, to SIKKIM (Lachen), 

 /. D. H. 



Glabrous. Rhizome short, woody. Stems densely tufted, clothed at base with 

 testaceous or subcastaneous sheaths becoming torn and fimbrillate ; stems ultimately 

 1-2 ft., in flower often only a few inches. Leaves in flower often 2 or 3 in., sub- 

 sequently 1 ft., -setaceous. Spike nearly always bisexual, ^ in. broad, loose~at base. 

 Fern, glumes elliptic-oblong, greenish then pale brown, obtuse, lower distant aristate 

 bract-like. TJtriele i in. long, thin, passing into the beak. Nut filling utricle, 

 exactly oblong, trigonous, pale brown, one angle pressing against posticous face of 

 utricle.- Confounded by Boott originally with C. Esenbeckii (i. e. Kobresia trinervis, 

 Boeck,), and by Beuthain and myself. Boott's figure is correct, but in his Herb, 

 he has Kobiesig, trinervis still partly mixed, nor has he perhaps discussed tht> 

 synonymy quite aatii'&etorily. Most of the n'jalerial is easily sorted, because K. 



