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Several specimens of a Carex-species related to the foregoing are 
present in the collection from Pamir. The species, Fig. 1, agrees exactly 
with a plant collected in Turkestan (Terski Alatau, No. 805) by V. F. 
Brotherus and distributed from the Herbarium of Helsingfors. It is 
labelled „©. foetida Vill.“ by the Rev. G. Kükenthal and published under 
this name in Botan. Centralbl. (quoted above), but later Kükenthal has 
changed his opinion and has given the form in question the new name 
C. pseudofoetida, but without any description. He has now been so kind 
to give me a description of this new species, which I with his permission 
publish here: 
“C, pseudofoetida Kükenthal, sp. nov. 
Rhizoma longe repens lignosum crassum. Culmus 6—20 cm altus 
subincurvus rigidus tereti-compressus laevis basi vaginis brunneis longe 
obtectus. Folia culmo breviora conferta 2—3 mm lata rigida. Spicule 
paucæ androgyne in capitulum oblongo-ovatum 7—10 mm longum dense 
congestæ. Squame lanceolato-ovate acute fusco-castaneæ clarius carinate 
marginibus + hyaline. Utriculi squamas subsuperantes demum patentes 
membranacei ovati planoconvexi 4mm longi inferne stramineis superne 
ferruginei glabri obsolete nervosi basi subrotundata breviter stipitati margi- 
nati in rostrum mediocre obscure coloratum marginibus fere læve ore 
hyalino oblique sectum attenuati. Achænium parvulum. Stigmata 2. 
Area: Turkestan, Pamir, Persia, East-Sibiria (Mouth of the river 
Lena, leg. Bunge).” 
I think it is a good species, mostly related to C. incurva, from 
which it differs in the much stouter growth, the much broader leaves, 
the brown scales and the smaller, plano-convex or applanated biconvex 
utricle. 
Probably it is this species which by Mrs. O. Fedtschenko, Fl. du 
Pamir, p. 429 is named C. curaica Kunth, a quite different species, of 
which f. inst. the utricles are strongly nerved and with scabrous beak. 
The late Clarke had named our specimens with this wrong name. 
N. 626. Pamir. At a rivulet near Kisil-Kul, alt. 4000"; June 
29, 1898. | 
N. 646. Pamir. Rather common in the salt-soil on the shore of 
the lake Kara-Kul, alt. 4000; July 1, 1898. 
N. 656. Pamir. In salt-soil at the river Muscol, alt. 4100™; July 
2, 1898. 
N. 803. Pamir. At the river Alitshur ad Borsala, alt. 3930; July 
16, 1898. 
N. 871. Pamir. At a hot sulphur-spring near the lake Jashil-Kul, 
alt. 3780; July 23, 1898. 
N. 1131, 1134. Pamir. In salt-marsh on the shore of the lake 
Bulung-Kul, alt. 3800™; August 19, 1898 (Fig. 1). 
