MACLOSKIE I CYPERACE/E. 



271 



Utricle gray, broad-obovate, rostrate, incurved-refract in middle. Awn 6 

 times as long, hooked, extending outwards. (Fig. 47, left side.) 

 Patagon., Otway. 



8. U. MICROGLOCHIN (Wahl. sub Carex] Sprengel. 



Rhizome stoloniferous. Cubn 10- 

 15 cm. high, smooth, terete, sulcate, 

 leafy at base. Leaves strict, setace- 

 ous, much shorter than culm. Spike 

 naked, i cm. long; male part 5-6- 

 flowered; female part 4-i2-flow- 

 ered. Scales oblong, at length- 

 chestnut-colored ; the dorsal nerve 

 clearer, margin hyaline; scales of 

 female flowers ovate-oblong, ob- 

 tuse, soon deciduous, involving the 

 utricles, which are 5 mm. long, 

 green, becoming brown, terete. 

 Achene with a straight, setaceous, 

 exsert awn. Stigmas 3. 



(Arctic and alpine parts of N. 

 Hemisphere) ; Fuegia to Cape 

 Horn. 





FIG. 47. 



Uncinia macrotricha (2 figures on left), top of 

 spike and achene ; Uncinia cylindrica ( 2 figures on 

 right), spike and utricle. (After Franchet.) 



U. MICROGLOCHIN FUEGiANA (Kiikenthal). (Carex oligantha Boott. non 



Phil., etc.) 



Taller and stouter. Spike few-flowered, about 2-3 male flowers and 3 

 females. Utricles 6 mm. long, deflexed. Stipe more conspicuous. 

 S. Patagon. ; W. Magellan, Fuegia to Orange Harbor and Horn I. 



9. U. PHLEOIDES Pers. 



Culm thick at base, smooth, 7 cm. high. Leaves longer, broad-linear. 

 Spike 10 cm. long, pallid, basiattenuate. Scales lax, the female obovate, 

 whitish, rusty-zoned. Utricle 8 mm. long, oblong-linear, attenuate both 

 ways ; its edges ciliate. Awns 6 mm. long. Achene obtuse-angled, pale. 



(S. Chili; "Quin-quin"); Patagon.(?) 



