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XV1L Additional Obfervatlom on the Bri'tjjb Species of Car ex. By the 

 Rev. Samuel Goodencugh^ LL. D. F.R. S. <Tr, L. S. 



Read January 6, 1795. 



IT was not to be expelled that, in treating on this fubject, I could 

 at once collect every article of information necefTary to be men- 

 tioned, or that I could be aware of all the minute variations which 

 take place from foil, from fituation, and from climate, in fuch a 

 variable genus as Car ex is. In my former paper * I endeavoured to 

 notice as many of thefe as I could without being troubiefome from 

 unreasonable minutenefs. 



Some general perplexities of this fort will prefent themfelves to 

 all accurate obfervers, — fuch as refpect the length of the foliaceous 

 bradlecZ) which are fcarcely in any one fpecies abfolutely conftant — 

 the appearance of male flowers in the female fpikes — -the pro- 

 portion of the peduncle of the female fpikes, which in fome fpecies 

 is for the moft part feflile, and yet at times is found of very confi- 

 derable length, as happens particularly in C.Jlava, — and the divifion 

 of the capfules at the fummit, which in many fpecies are for the 

 moft part clofed, and yet not unfrequently are found divided : — all 

 thefe matters muft be fubmitted to the tafte and judgment of natu- 

 ralifts, who may be difpofed to ftudy the fubject with candour. 

 I have ftated axillaris as having the capfule divided at the fummit, 



* Linn. Tranf. vol. ii. p. 126. 

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