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C. SCHEDONAUTOS Steud. Macl., p. 286. 

 Has been transferred to C. Guyana Desv. as a variety. 



C. SERRANOI Phil. Macl., p. 287. 

 Has been transferred to C. Darwinii as a variety. 



C. SIMILIS D'Urv. Macl., p. 287. 



To be deleted ; identical with C. canescens L. var. robusta Blytt. 



P. 287: Carex subantarctica Speg. Kiikenthal says : " not sufficiently 

 known." Its scales and utricles show affinity with C. rupestris, but its 

 flowers are dioecious, and he has found a bifid style in the few specimens 

 observed. 



C. SORORIA Kunth. var. INVOLUCRATA (Boott.) Kiikenth. 

 Syn. Carex involucrata Boott Macl., p. 283. 



S. Brazil; S. Paraguay; Uruguay, Argentina; N. Patagonia by Rio 



Negro. 



C. SUBANTARCTICA Speg. 



Dioecious, stigmas 2 ; leaves crowded, 2-3 mm. broad, as high as culm, 

 9 cm. Spikelet solitary terminal. Not well known. 

 Patagonia, Chubut. (Near Junciformes, No. 18.) 



C. TRICHODES Steud. 



Stigmas 2 ; lax-flowered. Utricles ovate, moderately rostrate. 

 In Fuegia, Ushuaia; also in Andes. In no. 20. (Aciculares.) 



C. TRIFIDA Cav. 



Leaves broad. Female scales apically excised. Utricles membra- 

 naceous, straw-green to fuscous. Male spicules 2-4. Utricles ovate- 

 oblong trigonous, long-stalked. In 38. (Paludosae.) 



Falkland Is.; S. Chili, also New Zealand, and Antarctic Is. 



C. TRIFIDA Cav. var. FRANCHETII F. Kurtz. Macl., p. 288. 

 On account of its identity with Carex Banskii Boott, this species should 

 be deleted. 



C. urolepis Franch. is to be transferred to C. Darwinii as a variety. 



