82 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS I BOTANY. 



S. Hemisphere, S. Afr., Tasmania, New Zeal., Chili. Patagon., Bari- 

 lache. 



P. 285. Carex Ortega Phil, is to be deleted, Kiikenthal ranging it 

 as a variety of C. caduca Boott ; though its systematic place may be un- 

 certain. 



CAREX PEDICELLATA Phil. Macl., p. 285. 



To be eliminated, on account of its identity with C. decidua Boott. 



C. PROPINQUA Nees et Mey. 

 Identical with C. Maclomana d'Urv. and, therefore, to be deleted. 



C. PSEUDOCYPERUS L. Macl., p. 286. 



Rhizome cespitose ; spikelets 4-6 ; above 1-3 males; the others females. 

 Upper bracts sheathing; not the lower one. Female scales very long- 

 awned. Female spikelets long-pediceled, becoming pendulous. Utricles 

 coriaceous, at length reflexed, many-ribbed. Cosmopolitan. Var. Hcen- 

 keana (Presl.) in N. and W. Patagonia. (Pseudocyperese), no. 35. 



This species is not known from S. America, but the following varieties 

 are: 



Var. POLYSTICHA (Boeck.) Kiikenth. 



Scales often hairy. Utricles longer than scales, erect, becoming divari- 

 cate and reflexed, 4-5 mm., rostrum one third as long, attenuate, limbs 

 scarcely divaricate. Culm base-sheaths often purplish and cleft. 



Patagon., Rio Chubut; the Territory of Neuquen. 



P. 286 : Add var. Haenkeana (Presl) Kiikenth. Scales of female 

 flowers as long and broader, rusty. Utricles lanceolate, gradually passing 

 to a rostrum as long, limbs scarcely diverging. 



W. Patagonia, Rio Aysen ; ins. Chiloe ; Chili. 



C. RIPARIA Curt. Macl., p. 286. 

 Is to be deleted ; not known from S. America. 



C. RIPARIA Curt., subsp. CHILENSIS (Brongn.). 



As the preceding; but utricles coriaceous, papillose, compressed trigo- 

 nous, short-stalked ; rostrum short, bifurcate. Female scales longer awned ; 

 utricles spindle-shaped, 7 mm. (Paludosae), no. 38. 



Patagonia, Rio Chubut and in Neuquen Territory. Also in Chili, N. 

 Amer. and Japan, and Europe. 



