Carex.] CLXXII. CYPERACBJE. (C. B. Clarke.) 745 



on peduncle If in. j bract sheathing, its free portion very short (rarely 1 in.). Fern. 

 glumes rather large, conspicuous by the strongly -ribbed broad green back; male 

 glumes sometimes similar but often chestnut-red. Utricle -| in., shorter than glume, 

 round-trigonous, obscurely nerved ; beak hardly notched. Nut obovoid, trigonous, 

 tilling utricle ; style very short, base slightly swollen, branches as long as utricle. 



134. C. Halleriana, Asso Syn. 133, t. 9, fig. 2 ; spikes 3, terminal 

 one oblong-cylindric male, fern. 2 close to it short few-fld., fern, glumes 

 ovate green, style 3-fid, utricle somewhat large ovoid strongly-ribbe I 

 green minutely glandular-pilose tip triangular shortly notched. Boott 

 Carex, iv. 128, tt. 415, 416 ; Boeck. in I/innsea, xli. 201. C. alpestm, 

 Allioni Fl. Pedem. ii. 270; Kunth Enum. ii. 479. C. gynobasis, Vill. 

 Dauph. ii. 206 ; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. viii. 25, t. 259. C. diversiflora, Host 

 Gram. Austr. i. 53, t. 70. 



SIND, Pinwill. DISTRIB. Westward to Europe. Also (subspecies) in N. 

 America. 



Glabrous. Stems 6-12 in., csespitose on a harsh short rhizome. Leaves usually 

 many, often as long as stem, scarcely -^ in. broad. Terminal male spike f by in., 

 dense, pale brown. Lowest fern, spike rarely 1 in. distant, usually ovoid close to 

 the upper fern. -, bract very short. (Slender subbasal stems carry often 1 spike 

 wholly female or male at top ; there is no line to be drawn between this state and 

 the common form of 1 male spike with 2 shorter female spikes at its base.) 



185. C. laeta, Boott Carex, i. 69, t. 188 ; slender, spikes 2-3 distant 

 cylindric, terminal 1 male, fern, glumes broadly obovate chestnut-purple, 

 style 3-fid, utricle obovoid-ellipsoid trigonous pilose tip short-triangular 

 beakless. Boeck. in Linnsea, xli. 199. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; Tungu, alt. 12-13,000 ft., J. D. H. 



Glabrous. Stems 4-6 in., caespitose on a small tough woody rootstock. Leaves 

 -f stem, -rjTo in. broad, flat. Lowest fern, spike f by i in., on peduncle If in. ; 

 bract sheathing, its free extremity very short. Fern, glumes very broad, tip de- 

 pressed-triangular, keel narrowly green. Utricle scarcely ^ in., terminated by a 

 small round hole. Nut obovoid, triangular, filling utricle j style short. Boeckeler 

 cites this as " C. pellucida, Hook. f. et T. Thorns., not of Turcz." C. pellucida, 

 Turcz., was never published, nor does Boeckeler say what it was : the name was 

 sent Boott (by Fischer on an example) who affixed it in ms. to Hooker's Tungu 

 plant. Turczanimow subsequently published his ms. C. pellucida as 0. Kirilowii 

 [Fl. Baical-Dahur, ii. (pars. 1) 275] ; it is very near indeed to C. laeta but has more 

 acute fern, glumes, and Boctt subsequently referred it to 0. pediformis, C. A. Mey. 



136. C. setosa, Boott Carex, iii. 108, tt. 327, 328, 329 ; spikes 2-5 

 distant slender cylindric, terminal one male, fern, glumes elliptic acute or 

 truncate, style 3-fid, utricle oblong-obovoid trigonous setose narrowed 

 rather suddenly into a short oblong scarcely-notched beak. Boeck. in 

 Linnaea, xli. 303. 



HIMALAYA, alt. 10-12,000 ft. Sikkim, J. D. H., &c. GURWHAL, Duthie. KASH- 

 MIR, C. . Clarke. 



Glabrous. Stems csespitose on a woody horizontal rhizome, 812 in., medium in 

 the Sikkim plant, filiform in the Kashmir, Leases hardly stem, |-i in. broad, 

 flat. Terminal male spike more than 1 in. in the Sikkim plant, 5 | in. in the 

 Kashmir, pale. Fern, spikes 2 by | in. (in the Sikkim type) dense, on a 2-3 in. erect 

 peduncle ; in the Kashmir plants, fern, spikes - in., delicate, lax, on filiform wavy 

 peduncles. Fern, glumes likewise vary from narrow ovate acute (in Sikkim) to 

 truncate in Kashmir. Utricle small, shining brown, with few scattered long fulvous 

 setae in Hooker's type plant (whence name setosa") ; in the perfectly ripe Kashmir 

 plant utricles are green thin with rather copious short pubescence. The Gurwhal 



