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Several specimens of a Carex-species related to the foregoing are 

 present in the collection from Pamir. The species, Fig. 1, agrees exactly 

 with a plant collected in Turkestan (Terski Alatau, No. 805) by V. F. 

 Brotherus and distributed from the Herbarium of Helsingfors. It is 

 labelled „C foetida Vill." by the Rev. G. Kük en thai and published under 

 this name in Botan. Gentralbl. (quoted above), but later Kükenthal has 

 changed his opinion and has given the form in question the new name 

 C. pseudofoetida, but without any description. He has now been so kind, 

 to give me a description of this new species, which I with his permission 

 publish here: 



"C. pseudofoetida Kükenthal, sp. no v. 



Rhizoma longe repens lignosum crassum. Gulmus 6 — 20 cm altus 

 subincurvus rigidus tereti-compressus laevis basi vaginis brunneis longe 

 obtectus. Folia culmo breviora conferta 2— 3 mm lata rigida. Spiculæ 

 paucæ androgynæ in capitulum oblongo-ovatum 7 — 10 mm longum dense 

 congestæ. Squamæ lanceolato-ovatæ acutæ fusco-castaneæ clarius carinatæ 

 marginibus 4- hyalinæ. Utriculi squamas subsuperantes demum patentes 

 membranacei ovati planoconvexi 4 mm longi inferne stramineis superne 

 ferruginei glabri obsolete nervosi basi subrotundata breviter stipitati margi- 

 nal in rostrum mediocre obscure coloratum marginibus fere læve ore 

 hyalino oblique sectum attenuati. Achænium parvulum. Stigmata 2. 



Area: Turkestan, Pamir, Persia, East-Sibiria (Mouth of the river 

 Lena, leg. Bunge)." 



I think it is a good species, mostly related to C. incurva, from 

 which it differs in the much stouter growth, the much broader leaves, 

 the brown scales and the smaller, plano-convex or applanated biconvex 

 utricle. 



Probably it is this species which by Mrs. 0. Fedtschenko, Fl. du 

 Pamir, p. 429 is named C. curaica Kunth, a quite different species, of 

 which f. inst. the utricles are strongly nerved and with scabrous beak. 

 The late Clarke had named our specimens with this wrong name. 



N. 626. Pamir. At a rivulet near Kisil-Kul, alt. 4000 m ; June 

 29, 1898. 



N. 646. Pamir. Rather common in the salt-soil on the shore of 

 the lake Kara-Kul, alt. 4000 m ; July 1, 1898. 



N. 656. Pamir. In salt-soil at the river Muscol, alt. 4100 m ; July 

 2, 1898. 



N. 803. Pamir. At the river Alitshur ad Borsala, alt. 3930^; July 

 16, 1898. 



N. 871. Pamir. At a hot sulphur-spring near the lake Jashil-Kul, 

 alt. 3780 m ; July 23, 1898. 



N. 1131, 1134. Pamir. In salt-marsh on the shore of the lake 

 Bulung-Kul, alt. 3800 m ; August 19, 1898 (Fig. 1). 



