A perennial laxly cefpitofe and probably evergreen plant; 
leaves 8—g inches high, one broad, while young of atender light 
green colour, which becomes very deep and dark by age; 
margin membranous entire but fo curled as to have the appear- 
ance of being crenulate ;_/pike little more than an inch long, 
with the circumference of a man’s finger; the corolla did not 
feem to enlarge as the fruit ripened, being originally larger than 
the germen. The charafler of our plant does not entirely 
agree with that of the Uncrwia of Mr. Brown, and we have 
placed it under Caxrx, leaving its tranfpofition, if neceffary, 
to fome one better acquainted with its kind than we profefs to 
be. Micuaux has an American Carex that he calls /yphina; 
but we do not fee why it fhould be fuppofed to be this, except 
that his defeription will fuit almoft any fpecies with a fimple 
androgynous fpike. We believe it to be a non-defcript. We 
have named the fpecies after the late deferving and induftrious 
Mr. Fraser, by whom it was found in the autumn of 1808 
near the Table Mountain; and upon the banks of the Catawba 
River, in the neighbourhood of Morgan-Town, North-Carolina; 
and by him introduced into this country, where it flowered in 
his Son’s Nurfery, Sloane-Square, this Spring. G, 
