Carex.] clxxii. ctperaobje. „ (C. B. Clarke.) 745 



on pednncle IJ in. j bract sheathing, its free portion very short (rarely 1 in.). Pern 

 gUiimes rather large, CDDspicuous by the strongly-ribbed broad green back;: male 

 glumes sometimes simUaJ- bnt.often chestnnt-red. U(ricU I in., shorter than glume 

 ronnd-trigOEOus, obscurely nerved j beak hardly notched. Nut obovoid, trigonons, 

 hlling utricle ; style very short, base slightly swollen, branches as long as utricle. 



134 C. Kalleriana, Asso Syn. 13S, t. 9, fig; 2 ; spikes 3, terminal 

 one oblong-cylindno male, fern. 2 close to it short few-M., f em. glumes 

 ovate green, style 3-fid, litricle somewhat large ovoid • strongly'-ribbe I 

 green minutely glandular-pilose tip triangular shortly notched. :Soott 

 Carex, iv. 128, tt. 415, 416; Soeck in Linnxa, xli. 201. 0. alpestrie, 

 AlliomFl. Pedem. ii. 270; Kunth Bnum. ii. 479. C. gynobasis, till. 

 Dauph. 11. 206; Beichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. viii. 25, t. 259. C. diversiflora, Sost 

 Oram. Austr. i. 53, t. 70. 



SiHB, PJBwiZZ. — DiSTEiB. Westward to Europe. Also (subspecies) in K. 

 America. 



• Glabrous. Stems 6-12 in., csespitose on a harsh short rhizome, ieoufis iisuallv 

 many, often as long as stem, scarcely Jg in. broad. Terminal male spike f by |^ in', 

 dense, pale brown. Lowest fem. spiTce rarely 1 in. distant, usually ovoid close to 

 the upper (em. ; bract very short. (Slender subbasal stems carry often 1 spike 

 wholly female or male at top ; there is no line to be drawn between this state and 

 the common form of 1 male spike with 2 shorter female spikes at its base.) 



135. C. laeta, Boott Carex, i. 69, t. 188; slender, spikes 2-3 distant 

 cylindric, terminal 1 male, fem. glumes broadly obovate chestnut-piirple, 

 style S-fid, utricle obovoid-ellipsoid trigonous pilose tip short-triangular 

 beakless. BoecJc. in Linnsea, xli. 199. 



' SiKKiM Himalaya ; Tungu, alt. 12-13,000 ft., J. D. H. 

 Glabrous. Stems 4-6 in., csespitose on a small tough woody rootstock. Leaves 

 i-| stem, x5-y'j; in. broad, flat. Lowest fem. spiJce f by i in., on peduncle 1| in, ; 

 bract sheathing, its free extremity very short. Fem. gVurnes very broad, tip de- 

 pressed-triangular, keel narrowly green. Utricle scarcely Vis '"•> terminated by a 

 small round hole. Nut obovoid, triangular, filling utricle ; style short. — Boeckeler 

 cites this as " C. pellucida. Hook. f. et T. Thorns., not of Turcz." C. pelliicida, 

 Turoz., was never published, nor does Boeckeler say what it was : the name was 

 sent Boott (by Fischer on an example) who affixed it in ms. to Hooker's Tungu 

 plant. Turczanimow subsequently published his ms. C. pellucida as C. Kirilomi 

 [Fl. Baical-Dahur, ii. (pars. 1) 275] ; it is very near indeed to C Xieta but hits more ~ 

 acute fem. glumes, and Boott subsequently referred it to 0. pediformis, C. A. Mej. 



136. C. setosa, Boott Garex, iii. 108, tt. 327, 328, 329; spikes %S 

 distant slender cylindric, terminal one male, fem. glumes elliptic acute or 

 truncate, style 3-fid, utricle oblong-obovoid trigonous setose narrowed 

 rather suddenly into a short oblong scarcely-notched beak. Boech. in 

 SCMnsea, xli. 303, ' 



Himalaya, alt. 10-12,000 ft. Sikkim, J. D. H., &c. Gcewhal, DutMe. ' Kash- 

 MIB, 0. S. Clarliet 



Glabrous. Stems csespitose on a woody horizontal rhizome, 8-12 in., medium in 

 the Sikkim plant, filiform in the Kashmir. Leaves hardly i stem, |-i in. broad, 

 flat. Terminal male spike more than 1 in. in the Sikkim plant, J— J in. in the 

 Kashmir, pale. Fem. spilces 2 by i in. (in the Sikkim type) dense, on a 2-3 in. erect 

 peduncle ; in the Kashmir plants, fem. spikes ^-J in., delicate, lax, on filiform wavy 

 peduncles. Fem. glumes likewise vary from narrow ovate acute (in Sikkim) to 

 truncate in Kashmir. XJtricle small, shining brown, with few scattered long fulvous 

 setae in Hooker's type plant (whence name setosa) ; in the perfectly ripe Kasbmi]' 

 plant utricles are green thin with rather copious short pubescence. — The Gurwhal 



