80 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS: BOTANY. 



Scales lance-acuminate, rusty, marginally hyaline. Utricles longer, with 

 a very long rostrum, 2-toothed. Nut short, obovate. Stigmas 2? 

 (Lupulinae, No. 37.) 



Patagon., Magellan, Oazy Harbor. 



Macl.,p. 284: Carex magellanica Lam. is found also in the Falkland Is. 

 (Section 31, Limosse). 



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Add Macl., p. 285 : 



CAREX. MARCIDA Boott (1840, with synonym C. canescens; 

 Section 24, Diuisce] Speg., 1897, non Linn. 



Rhizome woody, creeping. Culm 25-60 cm., slender, triquetrous, 

 scabrous above, with leafless sheaths below. Leaves shorter, 2 mm. 

 broad, above plane. Spikelets 6-10, androgynous, rarely unisexual, the 

 lower in a long compound bractless spike. Scales lance-ovate, acuminate, 

 with a clear nerve and hyaline margin. Utricles nearly as long, 3 mm., 

 ovate, plane-convex, with a spongy rounded base, thick margins and long 

 rostrum and 2-toothed hyaline mouth. Nut oval. Stigmas 2, long. 



Pacific N. Amer. S. Patagon. Rio Sta. Cruz. (Spegazzini.) 



C. MICROGLOCHIN Wahlenb. (Section Pauciflorce}. 



(See Uncinia microglochin Spreng. etc., supra p. 269.) 

 Described in Macl., p. 272, sub Uncinia, where the species itself is said 

 to occur in our district, but such is not the case. 



C. MICROGLOCHIN Wahlenb. subsp. OLIGANTHA Boott. 



Syn. C. microglochin Spreng. var.fuegina Kukenth. Macl., p. 271. 



Culm several, leafy. Utricles brown-green. Rachil exsert. 



In Asia and Canada Greenland. But var. oligantha . (Boott) in 19 

 (Unciniaeformes). Patagonia, Fuegia, Falklands. (The rachil is long, 

 but not hooked.) 



C. NEBULARUM Phil. Anal. Mus. Nac. Chil., Tom. 93, p. 492. 



Culm apically scabrous. Utricles subalate, thick at edges, and rostrum. 

 (Foetidae), no. 23. 



Patagonia, also Chili. Var. Kurtziana Kiik. at Chubut, etc. 



S. Fuegia ; W. Magellan ; S. Patagonia, by Lago San Martin and to the 

 north of that section, by Rio F6siles in the lowland as well as in the 

 mountains up to 1,000 m. In Falkland Is. 



