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V. eo duplo brevior), spicula 9 superiore breve pedun- 

 culata (in nostra pedunculum aequante), inferiore sub- 

 nutante (in nostra omnibus nutantibus v. pendulis), 

 squama utriculo triente (nee plus duplo) breviore, 

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

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

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

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

 descripta. 



Carex bostrychostigma. [Sect. Ill, B. h. Bocklr.). 

 Rhizomate crasso brevi oblique stolonifero dense fibris 

 radicalibus obsesso, culmis spithamaeis v. pedalibus 

 acute triquetris laevibus remotiuscule foliatis, foliis 

 planis pallide viridibus supra totis scaberulis, subtus 

 ad nervös 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 

 Iaxis, omnibus erectis, inferioribus breviter exserte 

 pedunculatis, bracteis foliaceis basi longe vaginantibus 

 infima anguste lineari spiculam superante sequentibus 

 setaceis paulatim spicula brevioribus summa squami- 

 formi evaginata, stylo incluse quam stigmata 3 utri- 

 culum duplo super antia quintuple breviore, utriculo 

 membranaceo triquetro quavis facie subtrinervi pallide 

 virescente laevi linearilanceolato in rostrum triente 

 brevius cylindricum basi purpurascens apice hyalinum 

 bifidum V bipartitum attenuate squamam oblongam 

 apice hyaline sublacero leviter attenuatam costa lata 

 albovirescente faciebus pallide fuscis parum superante. 



