T. Holm — Studies in the Cyperacece. 291 



In 111. gen. Car ex (1. c. vol. 1, 1858, p. 65) Boott 

 regarded the species as being an ally of C. crinita. The 

 species differs from (7. aperta by the long-peduncled pis- 

 tillate spikes, by the scales being distinctly mncronate 

 and by the perigynium showing several nerves beside the 

 marginal: but the peculiar, epidermal structure of 

 utriculus is common to both. 



A very different classification is proposed by Kukenthal 

 (1. c. p. 345), who places C, pruinosa in a subsection 

 Praelongce Ktikenth. of the Acutce Fr., including Drejer's 

 MicrorrhynchcE and Aeorastachyce. This author con- 

 siders the affinity of C. pruinosa to be with such species 

 as C. torta Boott, C. Sitchensis Prescott, C. pliacota 

 Spreng. etc. However, when this author cites Fries as the 

 author of the section AcutcB we must remember that Fries 

 established this section in the year 1835,^ and only for C. 

 acuta L., C stricta Good, and C. ccespitosa L. In the year 

 1846^ Fries classified the Scandinavian Carices in a more 

 elaborate manner, and we see from this that he segregated 

 C. stricta, C. ccespitosa and C. turfosa from "PliyllopodcE : 

 Prolixce: C. acuta, C. prolixa, etc. " ; according to Fries the 

 Aquatiles, Salince, Rigidce and Bicolores were sections dis- 

 tinct from the Prolixce and the aphyllopodic Spiculosce 

 and Ccespitosce {C. stricta, etc.). It is therefore abso- 

 lutely incorrect to credit a section ^'Acutce'' to Fries, 

 when this author had no intention whatever to make it 

 include his other sections, viz. Rigidce, Bicolores, etc. 

 As this section AcutcE is outlined by Kukenthal it can- 

 not possibly be credited to Elias Fries, but to Pastor 

 Kiikenthal himself. We have several years ago^^ sug- 

 gested the advisability of independent classification 

 rather than combining the systems proposed by Elias 

 Fries, Kunth. and several other authors, which leads only 

 to misinterpretations, as in the case stated above. 



MagnificcB. 



To this section we have referred C, magnifica Dew., C, 

 Schottii Dew., and C. lacunarum nob. 



^ Corpus florarum provinciarmn Suecise, p. 191. 



* Summa Vegetabilium Scandinavia, p. 71. 



" Greges Caricum, this Journal, vol. 16, p. 449, 1903. 



