a's Difp of fe new Bri jh Specie of Carex. 267 
: J vered it to be different from the Tine dioica, to which the 
- fynonym of Scheuchzer is referred in the Species Plantarum. Linnzus, d 
however, has erafed this quotation from his own copy of that wo ork. 
Mr. Davall has affured me this plant is very common in almoft every. 
damp fpot about Orbe; whereas he had met with the dioica only in 
one peat bog. I have no doubt of its béing what Haller intended 
under his n. 1350; it agrees exactly with his defcription, though 
he has confounded under it fynonyms of dioica and pulicaris at leaft, 
of no more fpecies. It appears to be the dioica defcribed by Pro- 
feffor Wildenow in his recent treatife on the Carices found about 
Berlin, printed in the Tranfaétions of the Academy of that place. 
Scheuchzer resents applied to it fynonyms of Ray which be- 
: long to. C, puli licaris, and bas by thar inben i the caufe of 1 {ubie 
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have sonfecraved the [petii name to his memory. 
- No one had fuípected this to be a Britifh plant till I receivéd a 
Ípecimen this autumn from Profeffor Beattie of Aberdeen, under - 
the name of dioica, along with a rich affemblage of pun part of 
the whole genus. 
C. Davalliana is readily and elientially diftinguifhed id es dica 
by the fruit being of a triangular-lanceolate, not ovate, form, re- 
flexed, not erect, and alfo much more ftrongly nerved. No one 
who has examined both can ever confound them. C. pulicaris is 
diftinguifhed by being always androgynous, and having fruit alto- 
‘gether without nerves, lanceolate, and pointed at each end. 
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