MACLOSKIE I CYPERACEyE. 285 



(Iceland ; Arctic regions; W. Amer. ; Chili) ; S. Patagon., near Carren- 

 leofu ; Magell. ; S. Fuegia. 



(C. microglochin sub Uncinia.] 



28. C. ORTEG^E Phil. 



Culm 22 cm. high, smooth, not cespitose. Leaves scarcely half as 

 long, filiform, smooth. Bract terminal, 6 times as long as the apparently 

 lateral spike ; spike subglobose, male above, female below. Female scales 

 ovate, castaneous, with a long leafy cusp. Utricles oblong, narrowing both 

 ways; rostrum bifid, with erect teeth. Achene orbicular, compressed, 

 black. 



Fuegia (along with C. f^^eg^ana}. 



29. C. PATAGONICA Speg. (Plate XII.) 



Androgynotis, acrandrous, monostachyous, 3-styled, glabrous, densely 

 cespitose. Leaves fasciculate, long, and finely filiform, erect. Spikes 

 few-flowered, concealed amid the bases of the leaves, bracteolate, sub- 

 globose, pseudolateral, the bracts ovate-triangular, acute. Utricle finely 

 obovate, glabrous, 3 by i mm., with 3 divaricate stigmas. Achenes 

 obovate, smooth, dorsally convex, ventrally plane, rufescent, sometimes 

 trigonous, depending on immaturity. Culms from the center of the leaf- 

 fascicles, but scarcely rising above the leaf-sheaths, 5-15 mm. high by 0.3 

 mm. thick, glabrous. Leaves and bracts narrow-linear, green, acute, dor- 

 sally nervose, produced straight. 



Patagon., in drains by Rio Chubut (Speg.) ; by Rio Sta. Cruz (Hatcher.) 



3O. C. PEDICELLATA Phil. 



Style 2-branched. Culm 20 cm. high, sheathed at base by dead leaves. 

 Leaves as long, flat, smooth, 4 mm. broad, the penultimate culm-leaf 

 much exceeding the crowded, erect short spikes. Uppermost spike male, 

 three lower female. Scales oblong, obtuse, mid yellow, margin dark. 

 Utricle green, white at base, stalked, inflated. 



W. Patagon. ; Valley of Rio Pequena. 



31. C. PROPINQUA Nees & Mey. 



Style 2-cleft. Root creeping. Leaves shorter than the culm, recurved, 

 trigonal, acuminate, scabrid. Compound spike short, ovate, dense, 



