Carex.'] olxxii. CYPEEAOBiE. (G. B. Clarke.) 711 



pale, slender, or shorter thicker purple-chestnut. Fem. spikes often 1 hy i in.,, 

 often 2-7 fascicled with 1 or 2 remote below, frequently with 1-6 rectangularly 

 divaricate short branches. Utricles greyish with green margins, and 1-4 irregular 

 green nerves. — Appears always thus irregular ; the rhizome is usually woody, short, 

 but sometimes the stem at base appears slender decumbent rooting in mud. Easily 

 recognized, as being the only low -level Indian species at all resembling C. rigida. 



31. C. rlg'lda, Qooden. m Trans. Linn. 8oc. ii. 193, t. 22, fig. 10; 

 stems 4-8 (rarely 10-12) in., leaves (dried) flat or margins near base slightly 

 recurved, spikes 3 or 4 close together cylindrio short dense, bracts not 

 overtopping the infl., styles 2-fid, ntricle ellipsoidal flattened smooth 

 nearly nerveless apionlate by minute entire beak. Sohk. Sdedgr. i. 56, & 

 ii. 25, t. U, fig. 71 ; Heichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. viii. 12, t. 225, fig. 578 ; Boech. in 

 Linnsea, xl. 414. 0. saxatilis, Schh. I. c. 54, & ii. 26, tt. i., fig. 40, & tt. fig. 

 40 ; Kunth JEnum. ii. 410. 0. vulgaris, var. alpina, Boott Garex, iv. 167, 

 tt. 568-574. C. orbicularis, Buott in Proc. Linn. 8oc. i. 254, & in Trans. 

 lAnn. Soc. XX. [1851] 134. 



Alpine Himaiata and W. Tibet, alt. 9-13,000 ft., from Gilgit, G-iles, to 

 Sikkim, /. D. H. — Disteib. Cooler parts of the World. 



Stoloniferous. Xeaves often curved. Spite* J-f by i— J in. JPeni.jfZiimes ovate- 

 triangular, acute scarcely mncronate, chestnut-purple.— In the original 0. orbicularis 

 Boott, the utricles are unusually large, but not larger than in some European 

 forms, 



32. C. vulgrarls, Fries Nov. Mani. iii. 153, & Summ. Veg. 230 ; stems 

 often 10-20 in., leaves (dried) conduplicate, spikes less close longer, utricle 

 more or less slenderly nerved, otherwise as C rigida. Beichb. Ic. FL Germ. 

 viii. 13, tt. 226, 227 ; Boott Carex, iv. 166, tt. 657-567; Boeck. in Linnsea, 

 xl. 416. C. csespitosa, Schk. Bdedgr. i. 67, & ii. 27, figs. A a, t. 86, a, b, & 

 B b, t. 85, 0, d, e ; Kunth Fnum. ii. 411. 



N.W. Himalaya and W. Tibet, alt. 10-13,000 ft., from Gilgit, Giles, to Lahoul, 

 Jaeschke, frequent. — Distbib. Cooler parts of the World. 



Some of the material Mr. Baker considers good Yorkshire 0. vulgaris, but there 

 are many examples which he considers do not match either 0. vulgaris, Fries, or G. 

 rifgida, Gooden. 



Var. /3 distracta ; spikes less close, lowest 2-7 in. distant. — Kashmir ; Gurais, 

 alt. 8000 ft., 0. S. Clarke. — Altogether unlike any European form, J. 6. Baker. 



33. C. erostrata, Boott ms. ; utricles obovoid compressed beakless, 

 otherwise as 0. rigida, Strachey Oat. PI. Kumaon, 73 ; Duthie in T. E. 

 Aikins. Gazetteer, x. 618. 



Kdmaon; Barji Kang Pass, alt. 14,500 ft., Strachey ^ Winterbottom {Carex, 

 n. 22). 



Instead of a minute beak there is a triiingular notch at the top of the utricle. 

 " I cannot recollect ever seeing any C. rigida like it," J. 0. Baker. 



Subgenus II. Carex proper. Style-branches 3 (see also 2. C. steno- 

 pTiylla). 



Sect. 4. Eab,b. Stem with 1 spike (see also 43. C. radicalis), fem. at base. 

 Seta (i.e. rudiment of the suppressed upper part of spikelct) often present within 

 ntricle. Bract hardly longer than fem. glumes. 



34. C. microfflochin, Wall, in Eandl. Kong. Akad. Stochh. 140, & 

 Fl. Lapp. 224; spike i-| in., style-branches 3, utricles lanceolate acu- 



