738 CLXXII. CYPERACE^E. (C. B. Clarke.) {Carex. 



by % in. ; bracts similarly varying. Lower spikes always distant, peduncle sometimes 

 hardly exsert from the sheath with erect rigid spike, sometimes much longer with 

 nodding spike (in Kunawur examples capillary with slender spike) ; 3-5 upper spikes 

 not rarely fascicled. Male spike f-1^ in., pale brown, glumes hardly mucronate. 

 Fern, spikes commonly f-1 by in., dense, not rarely slenderer (in Kunawur hardly 

 ^ in. wide, much looser). Fem.ylumes shorter than utricle, ovate, thin, pale brown, 

 linear-triangular back green excurrent in a scabrous cusp. Utricle -|- in., trigonous, 

 irregularly nerved, herbaceous, often "punctate" with ferruginous dots (often 

 missing in Europ. and Cent. As. examples) ; oblong portion of beak about - 

 length of utricle, glabrous or slightly minutely scabrous. Nut filling utricle, 

 obovoid-ellipsoid, trigonous. The identification of C. punctata, Gaudin, with C. 

 diluta, M. Bieb. is due to Trevirarus (Bull Soc. Nat. Mosc. 1863, i. 541) ; and is 

 accepted by Trautvetter, while Regel (Act. Hort. Petrop. vii. 573) and Boissier 

 admit both species in Asia. The common Indus Valley plant appears to me 

 identical with the European 0. punctata, Gaudin. 



112. C. BXunroi, Boott ms. ; tall slender, leaves narrow, spikes 5-6, 

 lowest very remote on filiform peduncle, topmost male with one ntricle at the 

 base linear lax pale brown, female glumes ovate acute scarcely mucronate, 

 style 3-fid, utricle ellipsoid trigonous imperfectly nerved thin glabrous, 

 narrowed into a short oblong-linear beak. C. chinensis, Munro ms. C. 

 diluta, var. Boott ms. 



KUNAWTTR; alt. 11,500 ft. Munro (n. 2431). 



Glabrous. Stems 3 ft. Leaves 18 by in., flat. Lowest peduncle 2 in., distant 

 11 in. from the next. Spikes f-li by - in., drooping, rather lax. Fern, glumes 

 shorter than utricle, ferruginous brown, green 3-nerved on back. Utricle ^ in., 

 subsessile, wall of thin loose texture pale ; beak very shortly bifid, smooth. Perhaps 

 allied to C. Chinensis, which has erect less distant spikes and hairy utricles. The 

 texture and character of the utricle is much like that in C. diluta, M. Bieb. In 

 both the examples preserved there is a utricle at base of the terminal male spike. 



113. C. fermginea. Scop. Fl. Carniol. ii. 225 ; spikes 3-7 distant, 

 terminal one male, lower fern, cylindric long-peduncled nodding brown, 

 glumes equMlling utricle ovate acuminate, style 3-fid, utricle ellipsoid 

 glabrous beak lanceolate longish notched scabrous on edges. Reichb. Ic. Fl. 

 Germ. yiii. 21, t. 248; Boott Carex, iv. 207; Boeck. in Linnsea, xli. 228. 

 0. Mielichhoferi, Schk. Riedgr. ii. 66, t. Mmmm, fig. 198 ; Kunth Enum. ii. 

 466. 



KASHMIB ; Pir Pinjnl, alt. 11,000 ft., 0. B. Clarke. DISTRIB. Alpine Europe 

 and (if C. Scopoliana, Willd. be included) Central Asia. 



Glabrous, brownish. Stems 1 ft. Leaves nearly as long as stem, in. broad, 

 flat. Spikes all distant, f-1 in. ; bracts sheathing. Glumes (male and fern, similar) 

 castaneous-red with green backs, often mucronate. Utricle quite glabrous in the 

 Indian example (as in Scopoli's description and in Schkubr's C. Mielichhoferi); 

 beak lanceolate-linear triangular, plane, subconcave on posticous face, glabrous but 

 very scabrous on edges. C. Scopoliana, Schk. Riedgr. ii. 77, t. Nnnn, fig. 199 has 

 utricle hispid somewhat subovoid suddenly narrowed into a small oblong beak. This 

 is united (perhaps rightly) with C. ferruginea, Scop, (not Schk.) by Boott and 

 Boeck.). 



114. C. tristis, M. Bieb. Fl. Taur. Cauc. iii. 615; leaves flat, 

 spikes 6-8 cylindric, uppermost 3 usually male, lower fern, distant 

 peduncled suberect, fern, glumes ovate hardly mucronate, style 3-fid, 

 utricle ellipsoid trigonous glabrous fulvous-hispid on angles suddenly 

 narrowed into linear shortly-notched beak. Kunth Enum. ii. 465. C. 

 sempervirens, Villars, var. y, Boott Carex, iv. 218 ; Boeck. in Linnsea, xli. 



