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IX. Descriptions of some Species qf r Car ex from North America. 
By Edward Rud§£, Esq. F.L.S. 
Read April 5, 1803. 
1 have the honour to lay before the Linnean Society the de- 
scription of five species of Carex from North America, which do 
not appear to have been described in any botanical work extant. 
The few specimens that have hitherto been received from that 
quarter of the globe, show in almost every instance that there is 
a striking dissimilarity between the American species of this 
genus and those of European growth ; and if some American bo- 
tanist would undertake accurately to investigate the former in 
their different stages of growth, I have no doubt but many new 
species would be added to this already numerous tribe. 
Carex ovata. 
Carex spicis androgynis ovatis pendulis, capsulis ovatis acutis. 
Tab. IX. Fig. 1. 
Folia erecta, tenuia, marginibus aspera. 
Culmus erectus, triqueter, angulis acutis, asperis. 
Spicct androgynae quatuor vel quinque, dense imbricatae, pedun- 
culatae, ovatae, pendulae; squamis ovatis, acutis, fuscis, capsu- 
lam aequantibus (Fig. l.a.); bracteae ad basin pedunculorum 
subamplexicaules. 
Capsula ovatae, compressae, acuminata?, ore diviso (Fig. 1. b.). 
Stylus stigmatibus tribus, glandulosis, crassiusculis. 
Habitat in Newfoundland, 
Carex 
