y6 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS: BOTANY. 



equalling the culm, complicate, plane. Spicules 4-7, crowded, the 

 terminal one gynecandrous, the laterals female, oblong or subcylindric, 

 1-2 cm., dense-flowered, the lowest one often pediceled and longer. 

 Lower bracts leafy, overtipping the culm. Female scales ovate, obtuse, 

 atro-fuscous. Utricles exceeding the scales, 3 mm.; rostrum short, fuscous, 

 truncate. (Vulgares) No. 28. 



Chili, Argentina ; W. Patagonia, by Rio Aysen. Fuegia, Falkland Is. 



Magellan ; the Cordillera of S. Chili ; Chiloe I. 



CAREX FESTIVA Dewey. Macl., p. 281. 

 Is to be deleted ; being identical with Carex macloviana d'Urv. 



Add Macl., p. 281 : 



C. DUSENII Kukenth. 



Female spikelets 4, many-flowered. Upper 2 male spikelets close, the 

 lower 2 subradical. Female scales chestnut, obtuse, mucronate. Utricles 

 12 mm. long, rostrate. (Cupulinae) No. 37. Stigmas 3. 



Patagonia; Sta. Cruz Terr. 



C. FLAVA L. var. BREVIARISTATA Kiik. 



(C. oedert'Retz. var. cataractce.} 



Culm rigid; male spicules often gynandrous, sessile; female spicules 

 oblong-ovate, less dense. Bracts divaricate or reflexed. Utricles 4 mm. 

 long, less abruptly rostrate. (Not a true species but a synonym of C 

 oederi.} 



S. Afr.; New Zeal.; Argentina, Patagonia, by Lago Argentine. 



CAREX FUSCULA d'Urv. 



Bracts divaricate, or reflexed. Limbs of rostrum spread. Scales fusco- 

 cupreous. Utricles obsoletely nervous. 



S. Patagonia; Fuegia; Falklands; also in Chili. In No. 34 (Spiro- 

 stachyeae). 



P. 282: Carex fuscula d'Urv. is about 5-10 cm. high; but its form 

 indecora Kunth. may reach 45 cm. 



C. FUSCULA d'Urv. forma INDECORA (Kunth.) Kukenth. 



Culm about 45 cm. high, while by the type the culm is only 5-10 cm. 

 S. Chili, Falkland. 



