mm. long, and from 2 to 3 nmi. l)roa(l. 'I'lie pcrigynium is of a light green colour, with 

 3 rather short stigmas. The glumes are broadly ovate, the margin is membranous, of a 

 pallid yellow colour, more or less distinctly suljobtuse at the summit, and furnished 

 with a distinct dorsal nerve, which is sometimes rough. The peduncles of the spikes 

 are long, to 3 cm., capillaceous, during the flowering season, anyway, more or less 

 erect. The bracts have long and narrow sheaths, the lower ones with large and well- 

 grown laminas, reaching considerably above the spike itself, but are shorter than the 

 culm, the upper ones more reduced, only small and setaceous. The culm is from 10 to 

 20 cm. high, and furnished with some few leaves. The leaves are comparatively long, 

 about half the length of the culm, or longer, somewhat relaxed, from 2 to 3 mm. broad, 

 pointed upwards, and slightly rough, of a fresh, light green, with brownish, sometimes 

 fibrillose sheaths at the base. 



Taken on the Abakan Steppe near Askys, in moist, grass-grown places, near the 

 river. In flower in the middle of June. 



Carex decipiens noi>. spec. [Tab. IV, Fig. 1]. 



Ciilmiix ad basin vaginis fibratis obieclus. '20-25 

 cm. alius, tenuis, inferne ripidus. direclus. superne 

 la.vus, (jlaber. sulcalus. Folia 'Is-'l-^ loncjitudinis cidnn, 

 1-2 mm. lata, plana, leviter canaliculala, rigida. saepius 

 incurvata, ad apicem attenuata et acuminata, margins, 

 el nonnunquam secundum nervos lateris infeiioris, 

 leviter scabra. Spiculae 3 dislantiores, longe peduncu- 

 lalue: lerminalis tantum mascula, 10-15 mm. longa, 

 ?-'/ mm. lata, densiflora et multi flora et spiculas femineas 

 distincte superans, latcrales lantnm femineae, paribus 

 panels et sparsis, 10-15 mm. longae, pedunculis capil- 

 laceis, erectis, vel leviter la.vis. teretibus, pnrtim parce 

 scabris, nunqnam pubescentibus af/i.rae. Vaginae bracte- 

 arum longiores, angustiores, inferior distincte laminifera, 

 fere circiler ujedinm spiculae attingens, superior lantum 

 lamina brevi et reducta. Squamae floris femineae oblunge 

 ouatae, versus apicem leviter atlenuatae, rotundatae 

 vel acuminalae, marginibus nembranaceis dislinclis, 

 carina dislincta, fere scaberrima, instruclae. Ulriculi 

 2.5-3 mm. longi. squamas ae(iuantes. ferme ovali, 

 triangulati, apice abrnple conlracti, et in rostrum sub- 

 cglindriacum, nonnunquam paululum obliquum, ore 

 hyalino, fere distincte bidentato. productum, basi in stipi- 

 tem subcglindriacum abrnple attenuali. Ulriculi pallide 

 flavi, glabri. enervii, paululum compres.si et duabus 



Fig 81. CciiT.v decipiens nov. spec. 

 (I'/i). a— c. Perigynia. ~ d. Side- 

 view of a i)erigynium, with tlie la- 

 teral rib. — e and 1'. Glumes, 

 f. Side-view. 



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