ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE GENUS CAREX. 
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latera castane®, margine albo-hyalinse, vaginBeformes, mnticse, 
vel brevi subulato-cuspidatse vel subfobacese. Vagina 4-12 
lin. longse. Pedunculus infhnus 4-18 lin. longus, undique 
piloso-scaber. Spicida mascula 2-10 lin. longa, 1-11 lin. lata, 
sessilis, inconspicua vel elliptica, pedunculata; feminea 6-12 
lin. longse, 1-2 lin. latse, snrama vel superiores masculse con- 
tiguse eamque snperantes, vel alternse, subremotse, erectse, in¬ 
fima longe exserte peduncnlata. Squama mascula lanceolatse, 
acutse vel mucronatse ; feminea sensim vel abrupte acutse vel 
mucronatsc, medio virides, lateribus castaneis marginibus late 
albo-hyalinis. Perigynium l T s o lin. longum, T 6 y lin. latum, 
vel l - 6 —-to lin. longum, -fo~fo 1™. latum, obovatum, vel 2 -L. 
lin. longum, Vo bn. latum, ellipticum, rostello plus minus 
longo, nervis subinde inconspicuis. Achenium lyo-lyo bn. 
longum, To-fo bn. latum, obovatum, triquetrum, basi styli 
obliqua incrassata, abrupte apiculatum. 
Yar. rostrcda ; perigyniis magis orbiculatis, rostro late 
conico recto, ore emarginato, ly-Q lin. longum, lin. 
latum. 
Yariat spiculis paucifloris, superioribus masculse contiguis 
earn superantibus, vel plurifloris alternis subremotis, mascula 
abbreviata sessili inconspicua vel elliptica pedunculata recta ; 
bracteis muticis vel subfoliaceis, squamis femiueis perigynia 
longioribus vel subsequantibus ; perigyniis obovatis breviori- 
bus vel ellipticis longioribus, rostello plus minus distincto. 
There is a gradual transition between the a and of Maxi- 
mowicz, the last being the more frequent form, his variety 
rostrata differing from them in the conic straight rostrum and 
emarginate orifice. In Herb. Hooker the lower bract has a foli- 
aceous elongation an inch in length. G. obliyua, Turcz., is in 
Herb. Fielding, Oxford. It has a longer cylindrical rostrum than 
the other forms. 
The specimens figured are:—■ 
n. 1. From the Altai, from Ledebour. 
n. 2. From Irkutch ( Turcz .), from Fischer, 
n. 3. From Hasan, “ G. obovata,” Gtoldbach. 
n. 4. From Christiania, Norway, 
n. 5. From Russia. 
n. 6. The var. rostrata , Maxim., from the Amur. 
n. 7. The “a . genuina" of Maxim., from the Amur {Herb. 
Hooker). 
468. C. pendula (Hudson); spica longissima viridi 
ferruginea, e spiculis 6-9 longis cylindricis vel clavatis 
multi-densifloris remotis, mascula 1 vel 2 ferrugineis, fe- 
mineis arcuatim pendulis, summis saepe apice masculis 
sessilibus, inferioribus inserte vel exserte pedunculatis 
basi attenuata laxifloris viridibus ,- bracteis superioribus 
angustis brevibus, inferioribus longe vaginatis latis cul- 
mum Scope superantibus; stigmatibus 3; perigyniis 
ellipticis inmqualiter triquetris ventricosis cylindrico-ros- 
tratis,ore integro vel emarginato ciliato, glabris vel superne 
ad margines parce dentatis rectis vel excurvis obscure 
nervatis membranaceis viridibus demum ferrugineo-punc- 
tatis, squama lanceolata acuta vel truncata cuspidata pur¬ 
purea medio viridi latioribus longioribus. —C. pendula, 
Muds. FI. Angl. 382, Fd. 1 (1762); Light. 564 ; Good. 
Linn. Trans. 2, 168; Curtis, Lord. t. 63; Wild. 288; 
Sch/c. f. 60; Kunth , 469; Broi. FI. Lusit. 65 ; Fng. 
Bot. t. 2315 ; Sm. Fng. FI. 95 ; Biebst. 3, 617 ; Gaud. 
Agr. 154 ; Bertol. 145 ; Reich. 19, t. 243; FI. Ross. 296 ; 
Tchihatch. 877 ; Steud. 230. C, maxima, Scop. Cam. 
229, Fd. 2, (1772); Fill. 217; Desf. FI. All. 338; 
Allion, 272; Gaud. Ilelv. 107; Koch, 880; Lange, 104 ; 
Gren. et Godr. 405. C. agastachys, Fhrh. Fhyt. Wahl. 
Act. 153; Iloppe, Ic. C. mutabilis, Willd. Frod. FI. 
Berol. 37, t. 11,/ 6 (1787) sec. Schk. 
Var. /3. myosuroides; Lowe, Camb. Trs.4, 10 (1833); 
Steud. 230. {Ic. ined. DCLXIII. in Herb. Keiv.) 
LIab. In Europa, Asia, et Africa.—Scotland, Germany 
to Italy, Portugal, Constantinople, Tauria, Caucasus. 
La Calle, Desf. 
Radix fibrosa. Culmus 3-6-ped., validus, triqueter, apice 
gracilis, scaber, basi foliatus, pars spicigera, 9 poll.-2 ped. 
longa. Folia 4-8 lin. lata, culmo breviora. Bractea inferi- 
ores longe vaginatse, latse, subinde culmum superantes; sum mm 
angustse, spiculis breviores, evaginatae. Spicula mascula 3-4 
poll, longa, 3 lin. lata, ssepe clavata, ferruginea; feminea 21-6 
poll, longge, 2-3 lin. latse; superiores apice masculse; inferiores 
basi attenuate infima rarius basi spicula brevi composita. 
Vagina inferiores 3-4 poll, longse. Squama conformes, mas¬ 
culse majores. Perigynium lfb—fo lin. longum, T 5 () —A lin. 
latum, plus minus ventricosum. Achenium -/g—ffo bn. longum, 
y 6 lin. latum, ovale, stipitatum, triquetrum, castaneum, basi 
styli sequab recta apiculatum. 
Var. 7; spiculis longioribus angustioribus 7 poll, lon¬ 
gis 2 lin. latis apice masculis, inferioribus longe exserte 
pedunculatis, pedunculo infimo nunc pedali. {Ic. ined. 
DCLXIV. in Herb. Keiv,) 
Hab. Madeira, Lowe, Dr. C. Lemann. Azores, Eayal, 
Watson. 
Perigynium lfo —to bn. longum, Ly—Yu bn. latum, vix 
ventricosum. Achenium 1 lin. longum, plus lin. latum, 
ellipticum, basi styli clavata obliqua. 
The specimens from Sicily and Lisbon approach the var. /3 in 
the length and breadth of the spiculee. (Perigynium 1 T 3 —^ lin. 
longum, Jg lin. latum. Achenium T %-1 lin. longum, lin. latum, 
fuscum, ellipticum, basi styli sequali recta.) Those from Lisbon 
have the lower spiculas long exserted, all male at top. (Perigynium 
lyWo bn. longum, vix bn. latum. Achenium x e g-l lin. 
longum, lin. latum, ellipticum, basi styli recta vel obliqua 
castanea.) 
Scopoli, in the first edition of his ‘ Flora,’ 1760, had not adopted 
any specific names, but in his second edition (1772), (ten years 
after Hudson’s first edition of his ‘ Flora ’), he adopted the name 
G. maxima. Hudson, therefore, has the priority as to name, but 
Scopoli as to description. 
Tab. DCLXIV. is a specimen from Hampstead, near London. 
Tab. DCLXIII., one from Madeira, Lowe, his G. myosuroides. 
469. C. podocarpa (Brown) ] spica oblonga atro-pur- 
purea, e spiculis 3—5 ovalibus vel oblongo-cylindricis al- 
ternatim approximates, masculis 1-2, reliquis femiueis vel 
superioribus vel omnibus apice masculis inferioribus pe¬ 
dunculatis, infima basi attenuata nutante vel pendula; 
bracteis evaginatis, infima culmum aequante; stigmatibus 
3-2; perigyniis elliptico-lanceolatis rostellatis, ore integro, 
trigonis vel compressis nervatis pallidis purpureo-tinctis 
demum fulvis, squama oblonga vel lanceolata saspe inae- 
qualiter emarginata vel acuta atro-purpurea nervo pallido 
plus minus longe liispido-aristatabrevioribus vel subaequan- 
tibus.—C. podocarpa, Brown, App. Franklin Nar., Fd. 
2, 36 (1823); FI. Bor. Amer. t. 224; Steud. 228 ; Torr. 
Mon. 352, et Cyp. 426; Dewey, xi. 162 et 29, 251. 
C. macrochaeta, Meyer, Mem. St. Petersb. 1, 224, t. 13, 
