ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE GENUS CAREX. 
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Hab. In Australia, Brown. In Tasmania, Gunn, 
Archer {Herb. Hooker). 
Culmus 4-5-pedalis, obtusangulus, lac vis, rigidus; pars spicas 
gerens nunc 3-pedalis. Folia 2-3 I'm. lata, plana. Bractece 
longissimse, vaginatse, spicis suis rarius culmo longiores. Va¬ 
gina infima 2-3 poll, longa. Pedunculi filiformes, scabri, in- 
sequales : inferiores quandoque 12-15 poll, longi. Spicae mas- 
culse singulfe, erectse, 1-2 poll, longse, 1 lin. latse, reliquse 
1-2 poll, longse, 3-4 lin. latse, fascieulatse (rarius singulse), 
insequales, plerumque medio fceminese. Squamae conformes. 
Perigynium 2 T 8 6 —3-%- lin. longum, T V~1 lin. latum, in speci- 
minibus Australise scabridum, rubro-ferrugineum, resinoso- 
punctatum : in iis Tasmania; glabrum, marginibus scabris, 
pallidum. Achenium 1^ lin. longum, T %- lin. latum, ovali- vel 
obovato-triquetrum, ferrugineum, angulis pallidis punctulatum, 
basi styli curvata apiculatum; in uno specimine (e Tasmania) 
racbeola lineari lin. longa apice ferruginea instructum. 
Var. /3. minor; spicis 3-6 singulis brevibus, superiori- 
bus ima basi masculis; foliis abbreviate. 
Hab. In Tasmania, Gunn, Archer {Herb. Hooker). 
Coal River, Australia, Richmond {Herb. Hooker). (Tab. 
CCCXXII.) 
I have seen but few Australian specimens of this fine species. 
Those from Tasmania in no other respects differ than in the 
smoothness and pale colour of the perigynium. The habit is the 
same in both. 
I have no hesitation in referring the var. f3 to the typical form, 
especially as I see in Herb. Hooker specimens from the Coal River 
having simple spikes, with others bearing fasciculate ones; and in 
a more mature specimen from Tasmania, given to me by Mr. 
Archer, since the specimen from Gunn, Tab. CCCXXNII., was 
engraved, I find the size of the perigynium (3 T 3 ^ lin. long., T 9 ^- 
lin. lat.) agrees with the typical form. "We observe the same 
variation in simple and fascicled spikes in other species, as in 0. 
CheroJceensis and O. elata. In Tab. CCCXXXI. I have figured a 
scabrous perigynium from Australia, the specimen there figured 
being from Tasmania. 
261. C. Raoulii (Boott); spicis 5-7 ovalibus vel cylin- 
draceis densifloris approximatis e stramineo-subpurpu- 
reis, terminali longiore basi conspicue mascula, reliquis 
ima basi masculis sessilibus evagiuatis vel infima quando¬ 
que remota breve exserte vel inserte pedunculata; brac- 
teis inferioribus longissimis; stigmatibus 2; perigyniis 
obovatis vel ovalibus late rostellatis bifidis vel bifurcatis 
compressis purpureis crebre pallideque nervosis inter 
nervos scabris marginibus ciliato-serratis subcoriaceis, 
squama obtusa vel emarginata longe hispido-cuspidata 
decolori membranacea angustioribus (cuspide) breviori- 
bus.—C. Raoulii, Boott in Hooker, FI. N. Zealand, p. 233. 
(Tab. CCCXXXIII.) 
Hab. Akaroa, New Zealand, Raoul, n. 208 {Herb. 
Hooker et Herb. Mus. Paris). 
Culmus 1 - 2 -pedalis, gracilis, firmus, apice scaber ; pars 
spicas gerens 3-7 poll, longa. Folia 2 lin. lata, culmo Ion- 
giora. Bractece nisi infima evaginatse, culmum longe super- 
antes. Vagina 3-4 lin. longa. Spica terminalis 1-11 poll, 
longa, basi subdimidiatim mascula: reliquse ima basi masculse, 
4-12 lin. longse, 3-4 lin. latse. Squamae conformes, straminese, 
tenues, margine hyalinse, apice subinde ciliolatse. Perigynium 
ItVtV lin. longum, T B 0 - lin. latum, intus (dempto achenio) 
prsecipue purpureum. Achenium ,-%■ lin. longum, -A_ lin. 
latum, lenticulare, orbiculatum, basi productum. 
A C. testacea, B., differt spicis omnibus basi masculis, peri¬ 
gyniis obovatis scabris, bracteis longioribus latioribus, culmo 
validiore. 
I am indebted to M. Spach for the figures drawn from speci¬ 
mens in the Paris Plerbarium. 
262. C. Jamesoni (Boott); spica atro-purpurea laxa, 
e spicis partialibus approximatis, extremis singulis, rne- 
diis fasciculatis geminatis ternatisque, inferioribus partim 
compositis, insequaliter longe pedunculatis nutantibus, 
infima longissime bracteata; spiculis pluribus insequali- 
bus apice masculis ; stigmatibus 3 ; perigyniis lanceolatis 
glabris vel ovalibus cylindrico-rostratis, rostro inter mar- 
gines dentato, bidentatis, ore obliquo ciliato, nervatis atro- 
purpureis, squama lanceolata mucronata purpurea mar¬ 
gine albo-membranacea brevioribus angustioribus.—C. 
Jamesoni, Boott, Lin. Tr. 20, 124. (Tab. CCCXXXIV.- 
CCCXXXVII.) 
Hab. In America australi. Columbia in montibus ad 
alt. 13,000 ped., Jameson {Herb. Hooker). Paramo de 
Cuchero and de Ruiz, Purdie {Herb. Hooker). Tungu- 
ragua. Escuador, 9-10,000 ped., Spruce {Herb. Ben- 
tham). 
Var. /3; spiculis elongatis gracilibus longe peduncu¬ 
latis. (Tab. CCCXXXY). 
Yar. y; perigyniis ovalibus, rostro dentato. (Tab. 
CCCXXXVI., CCCXXXVII.) 
Culmus 3-4-pedalis, triqueter, validus, scaber, basi vaginis 
longis foliorum amplectentibus atro-purpureis reticulato-fissis 
tectus ; pars spicas gerens 6-12 poll, longa. Folia 3-4 lin. 
lata, culmum sequantia, rigida, carinata. Bractece basi pur- 
purese : infima nunc 21 pedes longa, breve vaginata, sursum 
demum squamseformes. Pedunculus infimus 34 poll, longus, 
scaber, vel inferiores 4-6 poll, longi. Spicce partiales supe- 
riores, subsessiles, singula: ssepe congestse : proximse geminata:, 
simplices: mediae ternatse: infima singula quae et in quoque 
fasciculo una longior, spiculis minoribus 1-5 composita. Spi- 
culae |-3 poll, longae, 1-4 lin. latae ; ornnes apice extremo mas- 
culae. Squamae conformes. Perigynium lanceolatum, glabrum, 
24 lin. longum, T 4 (7 lin. latum : vel ovale, .1 T e r 0 lin. longum, 
x 6 o- lin. latum, rostro basi inter margines dentato. Achenium 
1 -Jo lin. longum, T S u—A lin. latum, oblongum, triquetrum, 
pallidum, saepe indentatum, basi styli aequali recta vel depresso- 
curvata. Stigmata 3 ; stylo inserto. 
This species varies in the more or less lax and compound inflo¬ 
rescence, in the breadth of the spiculse and form of the perigynium, 
but I can find nothing constant to justify a specific difference. 
There is a transition from the lanceolate to the oval form in the 
perigynium, and the roughness between the margins of the rostrum 
in the var. y is not always observable. The achenium is the same 
in both forms of the perigynium, for the indentation and the de¬ 
pressed base of the style are accidental. 
The affinity is with C. Boryana, Schk. 
Tab. CCGXXXIY. is a specimen of Purdie’s from the Paramo 
de Cuchero. 
Tab. CCCXXXY. Yar. /3, one of Purdie’s from Yalleseta, on 
the road to the Paramo de Ruiz. 
Tab. CCCXXXVI. Yar. y, from the same locality as the last; 
the base of the rostrum occasionally rough. 
Tab. CCCXXXVII. Yar. 7 is a specimen of Spruce, from Tun- 
guragua. 
263. 0. Borbonica (Lamarck); spicis 4-5 sanguineo- 
ferrugineis concoloribus approximatis erectis vel cernuis, 
terminali mascula vel basi mascula, reliquis foemineis 
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