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Sect. PaludoscB. As 37, but utricles subcoriaceous or suberose, with short rostrum. Style 

 firm, straight; stigmas 3. trifida, No. 38. 



Sect. Hirta; as preceding, but utricles more or less rough. Aphyllopod; rhizome emitting 

 long hard stolons. Leaves with pilose septate nodose sheaths, reticulately cleft. Bracts 

 leafy, often sheathing the culm. Style firm, with 3 rather long stigmas. 



(Btnatorrhyncha, corralensis, No. 39. 



Add. Macl., p. 277: 



C. ACAULIS d'Urv. (of Section Spirostachyce]. 



Leaves plane, 2 mm. broad, apex rigid ; their sheaths scarcely append- 

 aged. Bracts divaricate to reflexed. Spikelets ovate-globose. Rootstock 

 stoloniferous. Culm 2 cm. high. 



Falkland Is.; in sunny places. 



C. /EMATORRHYNCHA DeSV. 



(1853; including synonyms C. campyloxys Steud. 1855, C. filiforniis 

 cematorrhyncha Kiikenth., in Section 33, Hirtce. 1899.) 



Stoloniferous culm to 100 cm., stout, acute-angled, scabrous above. 

 Leaves 4-8 mm., broad plane. Spikelets 4-5, upper 2-3 male, the 2-3 

 females thick cylindrical, to 5 cm. long, 8 mm. broad. The lowest stalked. 

 Bracts leafy. Scales lanceolate, fuscous, awned. Utricles shorter, sub- 

 trigonal, rostrate, with spreading branches. Stigmas 3. 



N. Patag., Neuquen, Carren-leofu. Magellan; Fuegia. (Brazil, etc.) 



Var. CORRALENSIS (Phil.) Kiikenth. 



Including synonyms C. corralensisYtih., C.filiformis Speg. nonGood. 

 Culm lower, more slender. Leaves and spikelets narrower. Specific 

 name after the Harbor Corral in Valdivia (D.) of Sec. Hirtce, 39. 

 Patagonia, Rio Aysen, Sta. Cruz ; Magellan. Fuegia ; Falkland Is. 



C. ANDERSONII Boott. (in subsect. ttt/gure$ of 



Culm strong, acute-angled. Leaves broad with revolute margins. 

 Female spikelets in 2's or 3*5, unequal ; their scales obtuse. Utricles plano- 

 convex, long-pediceled. 



Magellan; Port Famine (and Valdivia). 



C. APHYLLA Kunth. (Junciformes, 18). 



Culm strong, leafless. Basilar sheaths long-mucronate. Female scales 

 early deciduous. 



Patagonia, Carren-leofu. 



