IV, p. 307; Kiikenth. Cijper. Sibir. in ^e^qeHKO, MaT. $ji. Ch6. II (1912) p. 142; Turczan. Fl. 

 Baical.-jDahur. (1855, II) p. 343, no. 1258; KptiJi. *ji, Ajit. VI (1912) p. 1509, forma. 



The specimens collected by me are not the true Carex limosa, but they are charac- 

 teristic in having the bracts always very short and slender, 1 to 2 cm. long, not quite 

 sheathing, but furnished at the base with narrower or broader auricles of a brown 

 colour. The culms are sharply rough in the upper parts, and are of about the same 

 height as the leaves, which are very narrow, only from 1 to 1,5 mm. broad. The spikes 

 are 2 in number, the upper one staminate, the lower one pistillate, frequently very 

 few-flowered, and not unfrequently sterile. The glumes of the pistillate flowers are 

 narrower, and at times considerably longer than the perigynia, the dorsal nerve always 

 produced into a mucro, always of a uniform reddish brown, and always wanting a green 

 median stripe. The pistillate spikes frequently rather few-flowered and short, sometimes 

 nearly globular. The style always much projecting. 



Of very common occurrence in very humid Sphagnum -hogs, near Ust Algiac, on 

 the right bank of the river Sisti-kem, where growing together with Carex magellanica, 

 Carex pauciflora, Andromeda polifolia, Ranunculus radicans, and others. Past flowering, 

 and partly with nearly ripe fruits at the end of July. 



These specimens may partly, at any rate, have to be regarded as the bastard Carex 

 limosa X C. magellanica, with which they seemed to agree perfectly, according to the 

 diagnosis in Kukenthal, Cgper.-Caricoid. 1. c. (1909) p. 507. 



Distribution: The species is distributed over Europe, except the extreme southern 

 regions, Siberia, eastwards to the Amoor Province, Manchooria, Corea, Sakhalin, North 

 America. 



Carex magellanica Lam. Encycl. Ill (1789) p. 385; Kiikenth. Cgper.-Caricoid. in 

 Engl. Pflanzenr. H. 38 (IV, 20, 1909) p. 505; Kiikenth. Cgper. Sibir. in ^eRienKO, Max. 

 Ojr. Ch6. II (1912) p. 142. Carex irrigua Smith ex Hoppe, Caric. German. (1826) p. 72; 

 Ledeb. Fl. Ross. IV, p. 307; Kptur. $j. Ajit. VI (1912) p. 1510. 



Rather common in Sphagnum-hogs at Ust Algiac, together with the preceding one. 

 Nearly past flowering and with nearly ripe fruits at the end of June. 



Distribution: Northern and middle Europe, Siberia, northern Mongolia, northern 

 and southern America. 



Carex panicea L. Spec. PI. ed. II (1763) p. 1387; Kiikenth. Cgper.-Caricoid. in Engl. 

 Pflanzenr. H. 38 (IV, 20, 1909) p. 510; Kiikenth. Cgper. Sibir. in ^eA^emw, Max. $.t. Ch6. 

 II (1912) p. 145; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. IV, p. 291; Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1850, I) p. 341, 

 no. 1255; Kptu. $ji. Ajit. VI (1912) p. 1513. 



In moist grass-fields on the river Abakan, near Askys, where collected by me in 

 abundance, in full flower about the middle of June. I have also collected, beside the 

 typical form, some specimens about the river Abakan, with pistillate spikes of a pale 

 yellow, /. pallida Blytt, Norges Flora (1861) p. 235, as well as forms with a loosely 



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