MACLOSKIE : CYPERACE/E. 



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2O. C. INCOMPTA Franchet. 



Style 2-cleft. Culm tall, over 60 cm., slender, smooth 

 rather soft, margin rough, the upper not sheathing. 

 Bracts exceeding the culm. Spikes 10 12 ; the up- 

 per 4-5 male or androgynous, sessile except the 

 first; the others female, often in 2's or 3*5, long- 

 peduncled. Scales fuscous, ovate-lanceolate, as long 

 as the utricle but narrower. Rostrum 2-toothed. 



(Fig. 51-) 



Magellan, close to the sea. 



21. C. INCONSPICUA Steud. 



Style 3-cleft. Root fibrous, yellow-rufous, cespi- p IG 



tose. Culm 10-20 cm. high, erect, trigonal, smooth. carex incompta. Male 

 Leaves plane, erect, as long as the culm, rough- and femaj e spikes. (After 

 edged. Male spike i, rising from the base of the 

 uppermost female spike; female spikes 3-4, oblong-ovate (12 mm. long), 

 with longer bracts, all sessile. Utricle ovate, rostrum short, 2-cleft ; scales 

 longer, ovate, red-brown, awned. (See C. fuscula.} 



(Chili.) 



22. C. INCURVA Lightf. 



Style 2-cleft. Rhizome long or creeping. Culm to 10 cm. high, 

 strong, filiform-terete or compressed, trigonal upwards. Leaves approxi- 

 mate, subflexuous, narrow-linear, shorter than the culm, narrowing and 

 keeled upwards. Spike capituliform, naked, aggregate of short spikes, 

 8-15 mm. long, ovate, basitruncate. Scales yellow-brown, margins 

 hyaline, the bracteal scales mucronate. Utricle longer, rostrum acuminate, 

 mouth cleft. 



(Orient; Eur. ; Greenland); E. Fuegia (Dusen). 



Cespitose. Falklands. 



Var. HUMILIS. 



23. C. INVOLUCRATA Boott. 



Style 2-cleft. Root cespitose, creeping. Culm 60 cm. tall, obtusely 

 trigonal, sulcate, leafy at base. Leaves erect, half as long as the culm ; 

 3 mm. broad, plane, acuminate, edge spinulose. Spike ovate, obtuse, 



