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7 Dr. Surrn’s Deferiptions of five new Britifh Species of Carex. 26 5 
though I have found no reafon to doubt its being fufficiently dif- 
ferent from all others. C. fulva appears, notwithftanding Dr. 
Goodenough's correction, Tranf. of Linn. Soc. v. 3. 77, to be vet 
diftin&t from flava, having longer vagine (which however are 
fhorter than the flower-ftalks), oval fpikes, the fruits erect, not 
recurved, and a rough ftem. Its habit too differs, approaching 
towards that of C. d/fans; but its glumes ‘being perfectly awnlefs, 
keep it from being confounded with any variety of the laft-men- 
tioned. In my arrangement of the fpecies I have taken the liberty 
of making fome alterations, difpofing them according to their na- 
_ tural affinities, rather than their technical charaéters. In the ge- 
- neric character I have adopted an alteration lately fuggefted to me 
by Dr. Geodenough himfelf, calling the permanent hufk that in- 
velts the feed ‘an aril us, à name which I cannot he pt inking 
expreffes its true nature much better than the hypothetical one 
. Of neĉtarium, the erroneous one of capfula, or even the analogical 
. denomination of corolla, The generic character will therefore ftand 
as follows: | ee - T 
Mafc. Amentum imbricatum. Cal. gluma univalvis, Cor. nulla. 
Foem. Ament. imbricatum. Cal. gluma univalvis. Cor. nulla. 
" Stigmata 2 vel 3. Semen arillo ventricofo tectum. 
| My new fpecies belong to the firft, third, and fourth fe&ions of 
the genus. —— | : EF. 
Mor. V. ww Mm * Spicå 
