Carex."] CLXXII. CYPERACEJ:. (C. B. Clarke.) 739 



227. C. Schottii, Boiss. Diagn. ser. 2, iv. 123. C. macrogyna, Turcz. (not 

 of Boott, cf. Turcz. Fl. BaicaL Dahur. ii. 284). 



N. KASHMIR to the KARAKORTJMJ alt. 13-15,000 ft., 0. B. Clarke. DISTRIB. 

 Central Asia. 



Glabrous. Stolons 0. Stems 1-2 ft., rather slender, trigonous. Leaves rarely 

 - the stem, i- in. broad. Spikes chestnut-purple, fern, f by in. ; lowest peduncle 

 often 3-5 in. distant, exsert 2-4 in. j bracts not overtopping infl. Fern, glumes 

 chestnut with scarious edges, shorter than utricle ; keel green-yellow or concolorous. 

 Utricle -^ in. (beak excluded), green, prominently 8-nerved; beak -| length of nut, 

 compressed, setose-scabrous on margins. Nut filling utricle, shortly-stalked, style 

 scarcely microscopically pubescent. 



115. C. flava, Linn. Sp. PL 1384; spikes 3-6 approximate (or lowest 

 somewhat distant) terminal one male, lower fern, short- cylindric dense, fern, 

 glumes ovate, style 3-fid, utricle ovoid subinflated ribbed glabrous flaves- 

 cent suddenly narrowed into oblong linear beak. SchJc. Riedgr. i. 72 and 

 ii. 56, t. H. fig. 36 ; Kunth Enum. iii. 446 ; Reiclib. Ic. FL Germ. viii. 30, t. 

 273 ; Ledeb. FL Ross. iv. 299 ; Boeck. in Linnsea, xli. 272. C. patula, Host 

 Gram. Austr. i. 48, t. 64. C. CEderi, Willd. in Act. BeroL 44, t. 1, fig. 2 

 (fide Kunth) ; Reichb. L c. 29, t. 272. C. lepidocarpa, Tausch. ms. ; Kunze 

 Suppl. 52, t. 13, fig. 2 ; Reichb. Ic. FL Germ. viii. 29, t. 272. 



KASHMIR ; alt. 6-11,000 ft., Jacquemont, Thomson, &c. DISTRIB. N. temp, 

 regions, Tasmania (?). 



Glabrous. Stolons 0. Stems caespitose, 1^-20 in. Leaves often f length of stem, 

 | in. broad. Spikes commonly all approximate, sessile sheath hardly any ; or, if 

 one spike is distant, that is peduncled in a distinct sheath (the rule throughout the 

 genus). Fern, spikes commonly -J by in., sometimes larger; often much 

 smaller ; beaks of ripe fruit stellately spreading or deflexed, rarely obliquely erect. 

 Fern, glumes ovate, shorter than utricles, pale often yellowish, muticous or rarely 

 mucronate. Utricles with 8 or 9 thick ribs about half as long as utricle ; beak with 

 an oblique small mouth or shortly notched. Nut not nearly filling utricle, obovoid, 

 trigonous. Boott has not touched C.flava & 0. (Ederi. The Indian examples show 

 the same range of variation as the European j in size from 1 j to 20 in,, the spikes 

 varying greatly in size, the beaks of the ripe fruit spreading, or deflexed, or rarely 

 obliquely erect. 



116. C. songrorica, Karel. et Kiril. in Bull Soc. Mosc. iii. 525 ; spikee 

 3-5 distant erect, uppermost 1 (or 2) male, lower fern, cylindric dense, 

 fern, glumes ovate cuspidate shorter than utricle, style 3-fid, utricle ovoid 

 or ellipsoid inflated corky shining red-brown narrowed into short 2-fid beak 

 sessile subtruncate at base. Boott Carex, iv. 200; Boiss. FL Orient, v. 

 430. C. Gebleri, Prescott ms. ex Boott in Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 261 & in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. xx. 141. C. nutans, Boeck. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 105 & 

 (var. microcarpa) in Linnsea, xli. 297. 



N. KASHMIR ; alt. 8-10,000 ft., C. B. Clarke. DISTRIB. Cabul, Central Asia, 

 Mandschuria. 



Glabrous. Rhizome short, horizontal, woody. Stems 1-2 ft. Leaves often f 

 stems, i- in. broad. Male spikes often pale, narrow, sometimes dark brown much 

 broader (as in C. nutans, Host). Lower spikes usually nearly sessile, sheath short ; 

 sometimes peduncle 1 in., sheath f in. Fern, spikes 1 by % in., or smaller. Fern. 

 glumes pale or brown with green back, margins usually scarious white. Utricle 

 often more than i in., ellipsoid (as long as in C. nutans, Host) but typically shorter, 

 remarkably truncate, sessile ; teeth of beak deep, spreading curved. Nut long, ellip- 

 soid, pyramidal at both ends, trigonous, dark-brown. If Boeckeler be followed in 

 treating C. songorica as a var. of nutans, Host, all the Indian (and neighbouring) 

 material will belong accurately to that var. 



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