In Herb. Banksiano sunt specimina plura (eel. Banks et Solander in Tierra del Fuego lecta) sub nominibus C. atratcs et C. Magellaniccs, quarum omnia spieam tenninalem androgynam basi masculam liabent, sed spicse cylindraceae evadimt, et liinc ad C. germanam tendunt. Boott.
AfRnis C. Mertensio, Prescott.
Plate CXLII. Fig. 1, scale and stamens of male flower ; Jig. 2, female flower ; jig. 3, perigynitun ; Jig. 4, ovarium, style, and stigmata ; Jig. 5, ovule; Jig. 6, ripe perigynium; Jig. 7, ripe achaenium : fig. 8, seed; Jig. 9, longitudinal section of the same : — all magnified.
10. Carex yermana, Boott; spicis 4-6 fusco-ferrugineis 1 v. 2 terminalibus masculis, fcemineis 3-5 crassis cylindraceis densifloris superioribus sessilibus contiguis erectis inferioribus subnutantibus exserte pedunculitis inrima interdum reraota, stigmatibus 3, perigyniis ellipticis hyalino-tenuissimis albidis compressis brevi cylindraceo-rostratis ore obliquo bidentato nervosis squamam oblongam fusco-ferrugineam emarginatam aristatam subaequantibus. Boott.
Hab. Cape Tres Montes, C. Darwin, Esq.
Culmus 12-15-pollicaris, obtusangulus, glaber, foliis 2-3 vaginantibus instructus, apicem culrni attingentibus, basi foliatus, pars spicas gerens 4-10 pollices longa. Folia 2-3 lin. lata, glauco-viridia, apice triquetro-acurninata, nervis carina marginibusque tuberculato-scabra. Bractece vaginantes, superiores setaceae, inferiores fobaceae, culmum superantes. Vagina 3 lin.-2i poll, longa;, basi purpureo-tincta;. Spica mascula (uno specimine spicida altera minori basi aucta), 8-12 lin. longa, 2 lin. lata, squamis serrato-mucronatis. Spica fceniineae 12-17 lin. longae, 4 lin. lata;, cylindraceae, densiflorae, obtusae, superiores sessiles vel brevi exserte pedunculata; (uno specimine), intima remota pedunculo tres pollices extra vaginam bipollicarem exserto instructa. Squamce arete imbricatae, fusco-ferrugineae, oblongo-spathulatae, emarginata;, obtusae, nervo pallido serrato aristata;. Perigynium 2A-3 lin. longum, 1| lin. latum, album, nervis subnovems pallide ferrugineis teneribus notatum, ellipticum, apice acuminatum, rostro brevi cylindraceo fusco-purpureo, ore obliquo bidentato. Aclicenium longe stipitatum, -| lin. longum (cum stipite If lin. longum), -f lin. latum, pallide castaneum, acute triquetrum, lateribus concavis. Boott.
Affinis C. Banksio, et quoad fructum non distinguenda. Differt spica terminab mascula, fcemineis cylindraceis densifloris, superioribus sessilibus nee basi cuneatis ; squamis fusco-ferrugineis, arete irnbrieatis ; pedunculis validioribus ; culmo obtusangulo foliisque glauco-viridibus. Boott.
I append the description of two new species of extra-tropical South American Carices; which, with those enumerated in the body of this work, include all that I know to exist in western Chili and Fuegia[1].
- ↑ 1. Carex acutata, Boott; spieis 5-6 erectis cylindraceis fuscis mascidis 1-2 sessilibus reliquis 4 fcemineis saepe apice subulato-acutatis masculis densifloris sessilibus vel peduneulatis longe foliaceo-bracteatis alternatim contiguis, stigmatibus 3, perigyniis elliptico-lanceolatis subinflatis nervosis glabris nitidis squama purpureo-ferruginea concolori vel apice hyalina ciliata hispido-aristata longioribus. Boott. C. physocarpa, Nees, in Herb. Hooker (non Presl.)
Hab. In America merid. Ins. Chiloe, Cuming, n. 43. In Mont. Pilzhum, Columbia, ad alt. 12,000 ped., Jameson, (Herb. Hooker.)
Culmus acutangulus, vabdus, scabriusculus, pars spicas gerens 3-6 poll, longa. Folia 4 lin. lata, culmo longiora. Bractece foliaceae, infima 3 lin. lata, cidmum longe superans, nunc brevissime vaginata. Spica masculae sessiles, 1-1-y poll, longa;, 1 lin. lata;. Squamce ferrugineae, concolores, vel apice hyalino-albida?, ciliatae, brevi hispido-mucronata;. Spicce fcemineae 4, (pars suprema plerumque tertia omnium saepius subulato-acutata, mascida vel sterilis) If poll, longae, 4 lin. lata;, densiflora;, superiores sessiles, approxiniata;, inferiores plus minus longe pedunculatae, intervallis 1-1—2 poll, longis, remota;, tamen omnes ob longitudinem pedunculorum contiguse. Squamce purpurea;,
