Carex. ] CYPERACEX (Clarke). 807 
16. C. acutiformis (Ehrh. Beitr. iv. 43); glabrous ; stems 3-2 ft. 
long, robust, scabrous at the top; leaves often 2 2 the len ngth of the 
-; In. broad ; spikes 3-7, distant, erect, male 2~1, 13 by + in, 
chestnut, Sitalos 12 y + in., lowest on a 1-3 in. sediinele, but 
very erect; glumes of female ” spikes oblong-lanceolate, caudate, 
brown or chestnut-brown, overtopping (in Ca ape examples) the 
utricles ; style-branches 3, rather short; utricles ovoid, trigonous, 
td 
7-9-nerved, glabrous, minutely granular, espe ecially upwards, 
triangular acuminate, hardly beaked; nut broadly obovoid-globose, 
scarcely 2 the length of the utricle. oeck. in Linnea, xli. 289; 
C.B. herkee in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 740. C. paludosa, Gooden. 
in - rans. Linn. Soc. i. 202; Kunth, Enum. 1. 487. 
7 hipaa Somerset Div.; on the summit of Bosch Berg, 4500 ft., 
MacOwan 1963 
RI es oN: Transvaal ;. Marico District, on the banks of the Matebe 
ie Holub, 1558! 1559! 
Widely distributed in the North Temperate Zone. 
The South African plant differs a little from the sce eee in — ing the ae 
glumes much more aristate, the utricles nearly or quite beakless, the nut broader 
than long and v. Mig truncate. Holub’s three ame have aa rps eae 
female at the t 
17. C. extensa (Gooden. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ii, 175, t. 21, 
fig.7); glabrous; stems 6-18 in. long, nearly smooth ; leaves usually 
as long as the stem, q5-} in. broad, thinly scabrous ; spikes 3-4 
: “A 
often overtopping the inflorescence 
4-7 in.; female spikes 1 by + in. (but, in Buchanan 167, 
1} by 4 in., not crowded, lowest 13 i in. distant) ; glumes oblong, often 
truncate, brown, with the 3-nerved brown keel often excurrent as a 
nearly the same as the female; style 3-fid; utricle } in. long, 
ellipsoid trigonous, 10-13-nerved, glabrous, narrowed into a short 
ere rag about 2 1 the length of the utricle, Schkuhr, Riedgr. i, 745 
56, t. Xx, 72, and t. V. 72; ; Kunth, Enum. ii. 447; Boeck. in 
Te nnea, sr 288. C. Eecklonii, Nees in Linnea, x. 203 ; Kunze, 
Suppl. Riedgr. 25,¢.5; Kunth, Enum. ii. 517, 
Sourn Arnica: without locality, Bergius! Ver reaux ! Harvey, 349! Pappe! 
we Hague: Port Elizabeth Diy. ; common along the coast, E.S.C.A. Her)., 
Eastern Region: Natal; near Greytown, Buchanan, 167! 
Petr nin distributed in Europe, North Africa, the Orient, and North and South 
‘the ine uth African material agrees — the largest European examples ; having 
& keel of the elites ation gly e ent, the beak rather long, and has both 
narrow and br eee Sack uns Bo ott me ees with Boeckeler that C. Ecklonii cannot 
kept distinct from (, exten 
; C, flava (Linn, Sp. Plant. ed. ii. 1384); glabrous ; stems 4-24 in 
re leaves % the length of the stem, narrow ; spikes 3-5, all (or 
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