460 T. Holm — Studies in the Cyjperacem. 



maturity, membranaceons, fusiform or ovate, prominently 

 stipitate, nerveless, glabrous, tapering into a long beak with 

 the orifice hyaline and obliquely cut ; stigmata mostly three. 

 Hehetatce: C pyrenaica Wahl., nigricans Mey. 



Stenocarpm nob. 

 Spikes several, slender and not very dense-flowered, borne 

 on long peduncles, often drooping, remote or the upper ones 

 contiguous, the terminal and, sometimes, the uppermost lateral 

 staminate, the others pistillate; bracts mostly filiform and 

 short, sheathing ; scales purplish or brown, acuminate ; peri- 

 gynia purplish, slightly spreading, membranaceons, attenuated 

 at both ends, triquetrous, faintly few-nerved, glabrous or a 

 little scabrous above, the beak prominent, bidentate with erect 

 teeth or obliquely cut, often hyaline ; stigmata three. 

 Hehetatce : C. lejocarpa Mey., clrcinata Mey., hakkodensis Franch., 



mucronata All., curvida All. 

 Centrales: C. sernpervirens Vill., frigida AIL, ferruginea Scop., 

 tristis M. Bieb., luzidcpfoUa W. Boott, luzuliii a Olney , ahlata 

 ^^W., fir ma Host., hirteUa Drej., hispidtda Gaud., gynody- 

 ^ama Olney, ife?i<:/a3 Rent., setosa Boott, jicnaea Willd., josy- 

 chrophila ^^^"s^, peirlcosa Dew., stenantha Fr. et Sav. 

 Desciscentes : C. tenuis Host, misandra R. Br., cruenta Nees, 

 longicruris Nees. 



Podogy7ia2 nob. 



Spikes several, the terminal and, sometimes, the uppermost 

 lateral (1 or 2) staminate, clavate, long-peduncled, the others 

 pistillate, very robust, dense-fiowered, globose to ovoid or 

 cylindrical, long-peduncled, drooping, contiguous or somewhat 

 remote ; bracts foliaceous, narrow, sheathless ; scales purplish 

 black, lanceolate, acuminate to emarginate, often aristate ; peri- 

 gynia light green, purplish above, spreading on very long, 

 ciliate stipes, membranaceous, lanceolate, compressed, two- 

 nerved, ciliate, the beak prominent, bidentate; stigmata two. 

 Centralis : C. podogyna Fr. et Sav. 



Lamprochlcenm Drej. 



Spikes several, short and few-fiowered, sessile or peduncled, 

 erect, contiguous, the terminal staminate, the lateral pistillate ; 

 bracts narrow, sheathing ; scales brownish, broad, mucronate, 

 the margins hyaline ; perigjmia shining brown, erect, ovate or 

 elliptical to almost orbicular, somewhat turgid, trigonous, 

 sessile, faintly nerved, glabrous to minutely scabrous, the beak 

 short with hyaline, oblique orifice ; stigmata three. 

 Hehetatoe: C. riipestris AH., ohtusata Liljebl. 

 Centrales: C. obesa All., nitida Host, pedata Wahl., ehurnea 

 Boott, alba Scop., villosa Boott, pilosa Scop., depauperata 

 Good. 



