^'"■'•^- CYPERACE/E 



241 



two male or sometimes female at top or at the bottom H... m f r ^ 

 lowers at top; scales dark purple oblom or ovfT;. /?'"''f ''' '''^'^ '"'"^'^ 



pori,y„i,„u ferruginous or l^do \e'l<n; Turnip a" ^Jnu^ i^ ' "^/.^"-.-' '-^-t- 

 sl.ort entire beak, or ovate ami acute curvi.,^nn* n 7 ' ^''^^P^'y <'"'•"';.' m a very 

 uppor mar-rins, iompresse.l, .er I's lo ^er or 1 ' Tl' '' ^r'''''^'"'^ °" ^'»« 

 obovate, lenticular: Itiguias 2 or 3 "'l iV T IG ' 5 «' "" "^'^ '"^^! -^ ""^^^^ 

 L..n Trans. ii^lO^ t. 2. ; l.eichenb. 1. .^ ll^] ^•^^-- ^- ^^^ /j^'' 



eral fon„s fVo.n Grc-.-nland a„.l Melnin'^. StraTt t^ n^ o '"Ivr^l""^ '^'"^'•'••"' "' ««^'- 



w.-stuara. n„a also fo.nul i„ Chili, and in t OM Vo M C A t 1 1 . ''''' ^"'?'.°''''^'' "'"' 

 <;f K.uo[„., Asia and Australia. The var h>mrr/>o,ra m1 ^'"^ *"'':""-' «'' ^"''•^''' '''Sio-'s 



thick, the rest female and solitary or in cl , ter o two m- it r "'?/,"' ' "'' '^ 

 or more by 2 to 4 thick • snle. d.rl- .,r. i i ., ^'"^^' ^ *" ^^ ^"'^^ long 



.uale obtui or the n 'dnc^f 1 I t ^ ^':jt/: ^i't ^ "^'''^J ^'^'^''-r^^' ^'- 

 female sometimes lanceolate and m cL te >i "ni n.T^'r^^ "''' '^f ^'"^"^ 



late Avith an entire beak, stipitate stroV, ne'r.!! ^^ fei'ruginous. oval, rostel- 



jnargins, papillose, deciduouf;:t?::'^:^rnrti:^^ 

 lar, punctate. — Linn. Trans, xx. 119, and 111. i. G3, t. 1 70 

 AVestcin coast of Patagonia and tho FnlUm.l id.,,, i„ • i i ' , 



;4.^ b^^h .^r^;i: ^li;;:^-,si;; t"- 1;,;^ -t^-sr'' ^^^^-- 



:;;ins-^3siLXfii^^ 



:^:^r^^:;rbSr^rf2'hri:m«^^^ 



a second smaller one at its base, loo rs.l^ 



thick, the highest close to the inkle and es^i / f '-It ' r ""/"'^ ^ "•" ' 



clos or rarel/the lowest radical on ^ Lhlndt^t, t. r"^^;:;,? ^^.r^T" 

 long, obtuse, or the lower female lanceolate and acute "^icrn,,, „, ^ ' ' "" 

 straw-colored below, elliptical, attenuate to ai en ire cyl 1 Sa nl ' '' ^ 

 and empty above, plano-convex below, delicately no ed in ' ' ^o^^^Z^^^t 

 very deciduou.s, longer or shorter than the scale • niitlef /vnnnTi '^" """'"'•> ^^""^d, 

 the perigynium and half its length, orbicular ^^ "^^ ''"'"'^ ''''''^'"^ ^^ 



In the Coast Pannes from San Francisc-o Bay to Ukiah. Bolanclcr, n. 2299. 3836 4038 6202 



sp^^y^; WlJr '3^)S^big^"t;ST:i- inoii;t:t^t T'^ -f' 



the stem : bracts fldiaceous, clasping, witl^ont' J^^.^^ uTl^:^"]:::::^ 

 the stem ; auricles small roundish, separate or connate : spike G to 12 ii c^es 1 ' 

 of from 4 to 8 cylindrical or clavate spikelets, the male 1 ti 4. ap, roxmnte an cli 

 or two long, the lowest often bracted, the female 2 to n, .lens;iv\ u emf obtuse o 

 upper one male at top, U to 3 inches long ami 2 or 3 lin L fluVl ;,not set 

 de or the ower peduncled and loosely ilowered at base ; scales purple or hlm- 

 colored, pale in the middle and on the margins, oblong or la u-eolate ob u'o or 

 acute or the lower rarely 3-nerved and cuspidate: perigynium pale, obol^ate u.u 

 or elliptical short-beaked with entire orilice, stipitate, biconve.v, nerveless o^ 1-9- 

 iierved on the outer side, resinously doited, b.oader than the scale : nutlet round or 



