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Jongitudinally above, and forms a kind of half tube, the edges 
of which are brown, the infide yellow, the outfide greenith, | 
the mouth befet with fhort hairs, each of which is terminated 
by a fmall villous head; the limb is deeply divided into five 
linear fegments, {preading out like a hand, and terminated b 
fhort points; the Filaments are five in number, of a whitifh 
colour, fomewhat broadeft above, rather flat, inferted into the. 
_ receptacle; Anthere oval, flattened, yellow, bilocular, a little 
bent, the length of the piftillum; but this is to be underftood 
of fuch flowers as are not yet fully expanded, in thofe that are, 
they are much fhorter, and appear withered; the Style, in 
flowers about to open, the length of the filaments, upright, in 
thofe that are opened much longer, and bent fomewhat down- 
ward; Stigma at firft upright, in the form of a cup, having 
the edge curioully fringed with white hairs, afterwards it clofes 
together, lofes its hollow, and affumes a flat appearance, and 
nods fomewhat, the back part of it is bearded; Germen 
beneath the calyx, oblong, ufually abortive with us. 
The name of Goodenta has been given to this genus by 
Dr. Smitu, @n honour of the Rev. Samurxt GoopeNnoucH, | 
LL. D. of Ealing, my much-honoured friend, whofe name 
will be ever dear to Botanifts for his laborious inveftigation of 
the Britifh Carices*. : 3 
* Vide a Differtation on the Britith fpecies of Carex, by Dr. GoopENnovucHy; 
in the fecond volume of the Tranfactions of the Linnean Society. 
