Dr. Goodenough'j Additional ' Objervations y &c. 77 



*and remcta, as having it entire; but this is not conftant. I be- 

 lieve all Carices difpole of their feeds by the opening of the point of 

 their capfule. This opening is obfervable in iome very early, in 

 others not till quite old. In the former, the capfule is defciibed as 

 opening ; in the latter, becaufe it is not feen but in very advanced 

 age, it is mentioned as doled. 



When I inferted C.fuha as a diftincTb fpecies, I did it in confe- 

 quence of a variety of fpecimens fent me by my friend Mr. Wil- 

 liams; all of which being nearly the fame as that rcprefentcd in the 

 figure given in my former paper, and entirely correfponding with 

 my foreign fpecimens, all of the fame growth and form, I con- 

 cluded that I had nothing further to dilcover. Mr. Williams has 

 fince that fent me fpecimens of more forward growth, which prove 

 it to be a variety of C. jiava. In the figure of my former paper, it 

 is reprefented with three female fpikes ; it very feldom has more than 

 two. I would wifh therefore to correct the article of C. fulva, and 

 make it a variety of C. Jiava. 



C. Jiava — Var. /3, fpicis fcemineis duabus. 



In my former paper, p. 209, I fpoke very indeterminately about a 

 Carex given me by the late Rev. Mr. Lightfoot. All the fpikes in 

 thole fpecimens being androgynous, I imagined them to be axillaris : 

 however, my friend Mr. Pitchford of Norwich has lately fent me 

 fpecimens of more complete growth, and I am now convinced that 

 they belong to C. extenfa. Mr. Pitchford acquaints me, that they 

 were found by the Rev. Mr. Bryant, near Cley, in Norfolk, in very 

 dry fandy ground. He tells me, that Mr. Bryant fent fpecimens to 

 Mr. Lightfoot ; mod probably, therefore, thofe which I received 

 from him were fent him by Mr. Bryant. I underftood at the time, 

 that Mr. Lightfoot had found them in Scotland; but as I had no 

 intention of writing upon the fubjec~t, it is very poflible that I was 



not 



