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238. Carex virescens Schkuhr, culmo 4 — 7 dm. longo, mediocri; 

 foliis cum culmo saepe aeqiülongis, 4 — 6 mm. latis, subtiis sparsim 

 piJosis; spicis 8 — 6, cylindricis, 25 mm. longis, 3 — 4 mm. latis, lucide 

 virescentibus, terminal! apice foeminea basi mascula, 1 — 2 inferioribus 

 non raro 1 — 2 dm. distantibus, pedunculis pergracilibus, bracteis folii- 

 formibus inflorescentiam superantibus; utriculis 2 mm. longis, ovoi- 

 deis, trigonis, striatis, undique pilosis, nigro-fuscis, rostro niillo; stylo 

 3-fido. 



Carex virescens Schknhr Riedgr. II (1806) p. 45 t. Mmm fig. 147; 

 Wüld. Sp. PI. IV (1805) p. 251; Muehl. Deser. über. (1817) p. 233; 

 Kunth Emmi. II p. 429; Boott Carex I p. 28 t. 73; Boeck. in Lin- 

 naea XL (1876) p. 405; L. K Bailey in Proc. Amer. Acad. XXII 

 (1886) p. 100. 



Hab. in Jamaica: herb. Goodenough. 



Distrib. Civitates Americae sept. unitae, Venezuela. 



239. Carex hiimulea C. B. Clarke, glabra, culmi parte visa 32 cm. 

 longa, gracili; foliis obviis 2, superiore 21 cm. longo 3 mm. lato, arcte 

 multistriato, subtus glaucescente; spicis 4 densiusculis, nempe: terminali 

 14 mm. longa V/., mm. lata, alba, mascula; secunda 1 cm. distante, 

 9 mm. longa 1 V2 ™"i- ^^^^i ^"^^5 mascula; tertia 28 mm. distante, 12 mm. 

 longa 5 mm. lata, foeminea, C3dindrica, subsessili, cinnamomeo-ferru- 

 ginea; quarta 38 mm. distante, 2 cm. longa 5 mm. lata, foeminea cinna- 

 momeo-ferruginea; spicae imae pedunculo 8 mm. longo, erecto, bractea 

 non vaginante, filiformi, 13 mm. longa fere 3 mm. lata; glumis mas- 

 culis 4 mm. longis, oblongis, obtusis; glumis foemineis 2 — 3 mm. longis, 

 ovatis, obtusis, scariosis (praesertim in dorso) cinnamomeo- vel ferru- 

 gineo-tinctis; utriculo fere 3 mm. longo, anguste obovoideo, vix striato, 

 cinnamomeo rubro-glanduloso-maculato, levi, glabro, rostro perbrevi 

 vix bifido; stjli ramis 3, longe exsertis, atro-rubris; nuce anguste ob- 

 ovoidea subacute trigona. 



Carex sp. nova? Goodenough ms.! 

 Hab. in Jamaica: herb. Goodenough. 



240. Carex hystfriciiia Schkuhr, robusta, glabra, spica termi- 

 nali mascula, 35 mm. longa 4 mm. lata, straminea pauUo cinnamomea, 

 a spicula foeminea superata; spiculis foemineis 3, 6 cm. longis 9 mm. 

 latis, densis, sträraineis virescentibus, ob rostra numerosa undique erecto - 

 patula hystricinis; glumis aristatis, foemineis quam utriculi brevioribus; 

 utriculis (rostro incl.) 5 — 6 mm. longis, ellipsoideis, lucide stramineo- 

 viridibus, valide nervatis, perle vibus, glabris; rostro cum ^1^ parte utri- 

 culi aequilongo in 2 deutes lineares rigides alte fisso. 



