mm. long, and from 2 to 3 mm. broad. The perigynium is of a light green colour, with 

 3 rather short stigmas. The glumes are broadly ovate, the margin is membranous, of a 

 pallid yellow colour, more or less distinctly subobtuse at the summit, and furnished 

 with a distinct dorsal nerve, which is sometimes rough. The peduncles of the spikes 

 are long, to 3 cm., capillaceous, during the flowering season, anyway, more or less 

 erect. The bracts have long and narro\v sheaths, the lower ones with large and well- 

 grown laminas, reaching considerably above the spike itself, but are shorter than the 

 culm, the upper ones more reduced, only small and setaceous. The culm is from 10 to 

 20 cm. high, and furnished with some few leaves. The leaves are comparatively long, 

 about half the length of the culm, or longer, somewhat relaxed, from 2 to 3 mm. broad, 

 pointed upwards, and slightly rough, of a fresh, light green, with brownish, sometimes 

 fibrillose sheaths at the base. 



Taken on the Abakan Steppe near Askys, in moist, grass-grown places, near the 

 river. In flower in the middle of June. 



Carex decipiens noo. spec. [Tab. IV, Fig. 1]. 



Culmus ad basin vaginis fibraiis obtectus, 20-25 

 cm. alius, ienuis, inferne rigidiis, directus, superne 

 iaxus, giaber, sulcaias. Folia ^/s-^/s longiludinis ciilmi, 

 1-2 mm. lata, plana, leviter canaliculata, rigida, saepius 

 incurvata, ad apicem altenuala et acuminata, margine, 

 et nonnunquam secundum nervos lateris inferioris, 

 leviter scabra. Spiculae 3 distantiores, longe peduncu- 

 latae; terminalis iantum mascula, 10-15 mm. longa, 

 2-4 mm. lata, densiftora et multiftora et spiculas femineas 

 distincte superans, laterales tantum femineae, floribus 

 paucis et sparsis, 10-15 mm. longae, pedunculis capil- 

 laceis, erectis, vel leviter laxis, teretibus, partim parce 

 scabris, nunquam pubescentibus affixae. Vaginae bracte- 

 arum longiores, angustiores, inferior distincte laminifera, 

 fere circiter medium spiculae attingens, superior tantum 

 lamina brevi et reducta. Squamae floris femineae oblong e 

 ovatae, versus apicem leviter attenuatae, rotundalae 

 vel acuminatae, marginibus nembranaceis distinctis, 

 carina distincta, fere scaberrima, instructae. Utriculi 

 2,5-3 mm. longi, squamas aequantes, ferme ovati, 

 triangulati, apice abrupte contracti, et in rostrum sub- 

 cylindriacum, nonnunquam paululum obliquum, ore 

 hyalino, fere distincte bidentato, productum, basi in stipi- 

 tem subcylindriacum abrupte attenuati. Utriculi pallide 

 flavi, glabri, eneruii, paululum compressi et duabus 



Fig. 81. Carex decipiens nov. spec. 

 (^Vi). a— c. Perigj'nia. — d. Side- 

 view of a perigynium, with the la- 

 teral rib. — e and f. Glumes, 

 f. Side-view. 



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