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V. eo diiplo brevior), spicula 9 siiperiore breve pedun- 

 culata (in nostra pedunculum aequante), iuferiore sub- 

 nutante (in nostra omnibus nutantibus v. pendulis), 

 squama utriculo triente (nec plus duplo) breviore, 

 utriculo 4 mm. (nec 6 — 7 mm.) obovato (nec anguste 

 oblanceolato) in quavis facie 3 — 5- (nec 5 — 7-) ner- 

 vio. — Caryopsis in G. oligostachya 3 mm. longa. fere 

 2 mm. lata, acute triquetra, ceterum ut in C. filipede 

 descripta. 



Carex bostrychostigma. [Seot. III, B. h. Bocklr.). 

 Rhizomate crasso brevi obliquo stolonifero densefibris 

 radicalibus obsesso, culmis spithamaeis v. pedalibus 

 acute triquetris laevibus remotiuscule foliatis, foliis 

 planis pallide viridibus supra totis scaberulis,- subtus 

 ad nervos margineque scabris linearibus longe subu- 

 latoacuminatis; inflorescentia elongata rhachi scabra 

 e spiculis 6 — 71axifloris rufescentiviridibus : terminali 

 mascula solitaria breviore linearicylindrica utrinque 

 attenuata magis densiflora, reliquis femineis linearibus 

 laxis, omnibus erectis, inferioribus breviter exserte 

 pedunculatis, bracteis foliaceis basi longe vaginantibus 

 infima anguste lineari spiculam superaute sequentibus 

 setaceis paulatim spicula brevioribus summa squami- 

 formi evaginata, stylo incluso quam stigmata 3 utri- 

 culum duplo superantia quintuplo breviore, utriculo 

 membranaceo triquetro quavis facie subtrinervi pallide 

 virescente laevi linearilanceolato in rostrum triente 

 brevius cylindricum basi purpurascens apice hyahnum 

 bifidum v bipartitum attenuato squamam oblongam 

 apice hyalino sublacero leviter attenuatam costa lata 

 albovirescente faciebus pallide fuscis parum superante, 



