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C. scita. Q 



"Rhizomate brevi obliquo squamis castaneis tecto stolonifero, 

 culmo fertili 3-pedali gracili trigquetro laevi ac fasciculo sterili 

 per bina appositis basi squamis castaneis superioribus laminigeris 

 vestitis, foliis linearibus acuminatis carinatis margine reflexo 

 remote scaberulis culmo breviaribus, innorescentia brevi e spicu- 

 lis 4-6 pedunculatis multifloris: terminali $ oblongo-lineari 

 utrinque attenuata erecta, reliquis apice masculis, superioribus 2 

 approximatis breve pedunculatis erectiusculis, inferioribus dis- 

 tantibus pedunculos teretiusculos laeves superantibus nutantibus, 

 fructiferis oblongo-ellipticis v. oblongo-lanceolatis pollicaribus v. 

 brevioribus, bracteis foliaceis non vaginantibus, innma culmum 

 superante, sequente subaequante, tertia spiculam quartaque 

 pedunculum subsuperante fere setaceis, squamis (infimis vacuis) 

 lanceolato-linearibus atris utriculo brevioribus et angustioribus 

 costa viridi sensim in aristam scabram utriculo et in inferioribus 

 squama longiorem abeunte, utriculis erectis triquetris membrana- 

 ceis viridibus secus angulos sup erne atrodenticulatis quavis facie 

 tenue 2-3-nerviis oblongo-linearibus ore parvo quasi immerso 

 brevissime bidentatis, stigmatibus 3 (2) late villosis stylum 

 inclusum parum excedentibus. caryopsi in medio utriculo laxe 

 nidulante in stipitem stylumque sesquibreviores sensim attenuata 

 lanceolato-elliptica acute triquetra laevi straminea faciebus 

 convexiusculis. 



Nippon media, ad rivulos, verosimiliter in montibus Hakone. 



In serie mere artificiali androgynarum prope C. scitulam Boott. 

 (111. IV. 177. t. 600) ponenda, sed ab omnibus hisce jam culmis 

 basi squamatis abhorrens. Quo ultimo signo et gracilitate appro- 

 pinquat speciebus distigmaticis C. cryptocarpae C. A. Mey. et C. 

 Middendorffii F. Schmidt., signis numerosis tamen adhuc 

 diversis. ' ' 



In the work of Franchet, cited above, some species are 

 described which evidently are close allies of C. scita, viz. 

 C. riishirensis, C. scabrinervia, C. xanthathera and C. uro- 

 lepis, all from Japan, but of which we have no material 

 for comparison. Moreover Meinshausen 7 has described 

 a species C. horaginensis from Koraginsk, Kamtschatka, 

 which evidently also belongs to this section. 



The MacrocliaetcB represent a very natural section ; the 

 species show the same general habit, and are aphyllopo- 

 dic. The distribution of the sexes varies but slightly ; we 



* Maximovicz, C. I. Diagnoses plantarun navarum asiaticarum VI. (Bull, 

 de PAcad. Imp. d. sc. de St. Petersbourg, vol. 31, p. 115), 1887. 

 T Die Cyperaceen der Flora Eusslands St. Petersburg, 1901, p. 351. 



