- 
Dr. Smrra’s Deferipsions ef. “five new Britifh Species of Carex. 269 
This ees appears to have been cónfounded with C. d//ans ; and 
from Lightfoot’s defcription of thé green angles of the fruit, I pre- 
fume it to have been what he tended under that name. It is con- 
fiderably larger than the real diffans, the {pikes black intermi ted: 
with ‘green rather than yellowifh, and the female ones often 
branched or compounded at their bafe. Its moft effential and de- 
cifive chara&er however confifts in the two ftrong deep-green nerves | 
or ribs which run along each fide of the fruit externally near the 
edge. - ‘The arillus is alfo broader and more comprefied than in 
ye) diflans. í 
- 3. CAREX tomentofa. 
EEPE Dos. fruited Carex. 
~C. vaginis breviffimis, fpicis foemineis fubfeffifibus cylindraceis ob- - 
. tufis, glumis ellipticis acutis, fructibus tomentofis. 
Carex tomentofa. Linn. Mant. 123. Leers. 200: 75; 1T. 7, 7 Wil- 
den, Car. Berol. € Vio Dr. Pl. 43. 
| In pratis rariüs. Fl. jun | 
In meadows near Merfton Meafey, Wiltíhire. - Mr. Teefdale. 
Radix repens. Cu/mus pedalis, ere&us, nudus, acuté triqueter, an- 
gulis fuperné fcabris. Folia culmo breviora, erecta, plana, lætè 
. viridia, utrinque margineque {cabra. Braéfee foliacex, ereCto-pa- — 
^ tentes, culmum vix fuperantes, vagina breviffimA, aut feré nullà: 
Spica maícula lanceolata, obtufiufcula, glumis lanceolatis, ferru- 
cineo-fufcis, carina virenti, fuperioribus quandoque mucronulatis ; 
fceminez plerumque duz, parüm remotz, breviflime pedunculatz, 
cylindracez, obtufz, ee varia, glumis elliptico-ovatis, 
; | ES (IK 
