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gynous intermingled. Scales ovate, with excurrent midnerve, the lower 

 broad-lacerous, longer than the short glabrous utricle with 2-cleft rostrum. 

 Achene trigonal, smooth. 

 Magellan, Oazy Bay. 



35. C. SERRANOI Phil. 



Styles 3. Culm ? Leaves ? Bracts very long, not sheathing, the low- 

 est 5 mm. broad. Spikes approximate, all but the lowest erect ; 2 male, 

 5 female, the upper ones male at their apex. Male scales lanceolate, 

 their center white ; female scales longer and twice as broad. Utricles 

 firm, ovate-elliptical, acute both ways, compressed, margined, ventrally 

 flat and 2-nerved, dorsally 5-nerved, convex. Achene red, ovate, acute, 

 compressed. 



High up in W. Patagon. at 700 meters, partly snow-covered. 



36. C. SIMILIS d'Urv. (1825). (C. cttrta Good.) 



Culm triquetrous, strict, slightly scabrous. Leaves plane, linear, sub- 

 carinate, apex subulate. Spikes 6-rarely 8, androgynous, the lower part 

 male, sessile, alternate, elliptical ; upper ones approximate. Scales ovate, 

 acutish, squarrose, with i green nerve. Fruits ovate-lanceolate, scarcely 

 bidentate. Perennial. " Is decidedly the European C. curta" (Stendel) ; 

 a synonym of C. canescens L. (Index Kewensis). 



Fuegia, Basket Isle, Amakouaia, rare; Falklands. 



37- C. SUBANTARCTICA Speg. 



Dioecious, distylous. Culms low, angulate-terete, very sulcate, smooth ; 

 leaves as long or shorter, slightly coriaceous, very carinate, rather flat, 

 glaucescent-green, narrowing upwards to a blunt triquetrous point. Cylin- 

 draceous-fusoid male spike solitary, acrogenous, bractless, its scales 

 spatulate, obtuse, the lower subretuse, the upper rounded, often mucro- 

 nate, with a hyaline margin, subcarinately green. Stamens long-exsert. 

 Female spikes few; the primary one exsert, acrogenous on the culm, 

 the secondaries smaller at base of the culm, and almost concealed in 

 the leaves ; their scales more acute and pale than in the males ; utricles 

 subelliptical, subsessile, dorsally convex-concave, scarcely nervose, gla- 

 brous, abruptly ending in a long truncate toothless rostrum. Achene 

 plumbeous, punctulate, lenticular. 



