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bosis Alpium Alatau, et Songoriao collibus apricis, Kar. 
et Kir.- — /3. Himalaya occid. subalpina. Kunawur, 
Boyle, n. 73 ; Munro,n. 2417 ; Jacquemont, n. 473 (flo- 
rifera). — y. Affghanistan, Griffith,, n. 79. 
Culmus pedalis, erectus, strictus, triqueter, scaber, inferne 
foliatus. Folia 1 lin. lata, plana, recta, culmo breviora. 
Bractea cuspidata, brevis. Spica 8-12 lin. longa, 4 lin. lata. 
Perigynium 1 A lin. longum, -A-Ar lin. latnm, nervis an- 
tice 8 postice 4-5 usque ad apicem conspicuis, plano-con¬ 
vexum, nec inflation. Acheniimi r 7 (1 - lin. longum, T r, (7 lin. 
latum, oblongo-ovale, basi styli sequali. 
Yar. (3; spica ovata vel oblonga densa castanea nuda, e 
spiculis pluribus, inferioribus compositis subinde discretis; 
perigyniis ovatis vel lanceolatis antice 3-5-nervatis, squamam 
lanceolatam acutam muticam castaneam margine hyalinam 
subscquantibus. 
Culmus subbipedalis. Folia 2 lin. lata, plana. Spica 12 
lin. longa, 6-9 lin. lata. Perigynium 1-A~2 lin- longum, 
-ro —nr lim latum, postice nunc enerve. Achenium -f — r s (T lin. 
longum, Ao lm- latum, ovale, plano-convexum. 
Var. y; spica oblonga castanea densa, e spiculis pluribus 
inferioribus compositis ; bracteis cuspidatis brevibus ; perigy¬ 
niis ovalibus rostratis, ore hvalino demum bifido, utrinque 
crebre nervosis, squama ovata acuta cuspidata castanea mar¬ 
gine hyalina longioribus. 
Culmus sesquipedalis, apice triqueter, scaber. Folia 1 \ lin. 
lata. Spica 1| poll, loriga, 6 lin. lata. Squama cuspidatm. 
Perigynium 1 f^-2 lin. longum, Aylin. latum, plano-convexum, 
nervis utrinque pluribus (12-15). Achenium lin. longum, 
Ar lin. latum, basi styli abrupte apieulatum. 
There is a confusion about the C. Curaica, K. Maximowicz 
says the original Altai specimen was without root or fruit, and 
that the one figured by Ledebour was probably from a specimen 
of Turczaninow, though that figure exhibits a nerved perigynium, 
while a specimen of Turczaninow, from the Baikal, in Herb. 
Hooker,—the only one of his I have seen,—has a nerveless one, 
agreeing with C. incurva. A specimen like this must, I think, 
have been seen by Grisebach, for, in the El. Ross., he refers C. 
ovata, Meyer, to C. incurva ; and, quoting the observations of the 
FI. Altaica as to C. ovata having “folia plana,” he adds, “ non 
observo in siceis .” 
Karelin and Kiriloff described in the Moscow ‘ Bulletin’ (1842), 
a plant from the Alatau, under the name of C.pycnostachya, which 
was afterwards distributed with this ticket : — “2067. 0. Curaica, 
Kunth, in Songories collibus apricis, nec non in subalpinis liumiclis 
Alatau adfluv. Sardian, leg. Far. et Fir. 1841, Soc. Imp. Nat. Cur. 
Ilosqut In Herb. Hooker there are four specimens with the 
above ticket, two of which are the C. pycnostachya of the Bull. 
Mosc., and one with involute leaves, 'which is C. incurva ; the 
fourth is probably the same, but the perigynia are all morbidly 
elongated. The habitat of C. pycnostachya in the Bull. Mosc. 
is in herbosis Alpium Alatau, ad fluv. Lepsa .” In my own her¬ 
barium I have a specimen with the same ticket as that in Herb. 
Hooker, except that the specimen is named “ C. pycnostachya ,” 
2067,” and not, as in the Hooker ticket, “ C. Curaica 
Lastly, Maximowicz, in his Prim. FI. Amurensis, has a C. 
Curaica, which, as he suspected, is referable to C. chordorliiza, 
Ehrh. 
C. Curaica, Kunth, a C. incurva differt culmo validiore al- 
tiore triquetro scabro recto ; foliis planis latioribus rectis; 
spica longiore basi angustiore pluristachya; perigyniis plano- 
convexis (nec inflatis) valide nervatis firmis angustioribus; 
achenio oblongo-ovali angustiore. 
I have no hesitation in referring C. vulpinaris- and C. coacta to 
C. Curaica. We have but few specimens of any one of them, and 
the slight differences do not amount to any specific distinction. 
I have given separate figures of each, that this may be more dis¬ 
tinctly understood. 
Tab. 
n. 1. Two specimens from Herb. Hooker, “ C. Curaica, 2067.” 
n. 2. The third specimen from Herb. Hooker, with the above, 
and w'hich I refer to C. incurva, the perigynia varying 
in size. 
n. 3. A morbidly elongated perigynium of the fourth speci¬ 
men, with involute leaves. 
n. 4. A perigynium from the “ C. ovata, Turcz. Baical,” from 
Herb. Hooker.” 
Tab. . C. vulpinaris, Nees. 
n. 1. From Royle. 
n. 2. From Munro. 
Tab. G. coacta, B. From Griffith. 
490. C. dispalata (Boott); spica subelongata olivacea, 
e spiculis 4-6 elongatis cylinclricis alternatim approxi¬ 
mate, terminali mascula, reliquis femineis, superioribus 
sessilibus, infima pedunculata basi laxiflora longe brac- 
teata; bracteis evaginatis, infima culmum subsequante 
vel superante; stigmatibus 3; perigyniis ovatis trique- 
tris rostratis arcuatim divergentibus, ore integro obliquo 
membranaceo, glabris nervatis, squama lanceolata acumi- 
mata purpurea margine albo-hyalina medio viridi tri- 
nervata latioribus subaequantibus.—C. clispalata, Boott 
in Berry s Exp. 2, 225. 
Hab. Hakodadi, Japan, Br. Morrow ; Wright in 
Blnyyold and Badgers s Exp. (Herb. Gray). 
Culmus sub-2-pedalis, acute triqueter, lsevis, inter spiculas 
scabriusculus • pars spicigera 6-9 poll, longa. Folia 3-4 lin. 
lata, elongata, culmo breviora, glabra. Bractea evaginatse; 
infima lata, culmum subsequans ; superiores spiculis suis bre- 
viores. Spicula mascula 2-21 poll, longa, 2 lin. lata; feminece 
1-4 poll. Iongse, 2-2^ lin. latse. Squamae mascidae lineares, 
acutse. Perigynium 1^ lin. longum, - |7J lin. latum, ore ob¬ 
liquo purpureo, margine albo-hyalino. Achenium (vix matu- 
rum) At lin. longum, T - lin. latum, obovatum, triquetrum, 
pallidum, basi styli persistente obliqua; stylo sequali, con- 
torto. 
Affinis C. scabratae et C. amplifolice; a priori differt culmo 
foliisque glabris, etc., ab altera squamis femineis acutis (nec 
inferioribus emarginatis), basi styli aequali. 
491. c. echinata (Desfontaines); spica elongata pur- 
pureo-viridi, e spiculis 4-10 cylinclricis longis densifloris, 
terminalibus 3-6 masculis gracilibus contiguis, reliquis 
crassis femineis vel superioribus apice masculis sessilibus 
approximatis vel remotis evaginatis singulis vel mediis 
geminatis ternatisve, infima saepe exserte pedunculata; 
bracteis inferioribus foliaceis longissimis, infima saepe 
vaginulata; stigmatibus 3-2 ; perigyniis ovalibus vel 
obovatis abrupte cylindrico-rostellatis, ore integro, scabris 
margine dentatis nervatis compressis firmis demum fer- 
rugineo-punctatis rubescentibus, squama lineari-lanceo- 
lata truncata vel acuta plus minus aristata, vel mutica 
purpurea margine albo-hyalina latioribus longioribus 
vel (arista) brevioribus.—■■C. echinata, Besf. All. 338 
(1798); Beyl, in Lois. Gall. 637. C. hispida, Schk. f. 
64 (1801); Wahl. Act. 165; WiUd. 302 ; Kunth, 415; 
Brejer, Symb. 16; Bertol. 143; Gren. et Godr. 412; 
Sleud. 215. C. fascicnlata, Link (ap. Schk. f. 114); 
Wahl. Act. 163 ; Willd. 248 ; Kunth, 521 ; Sleud. 206. 
