98 Mr. Rudge's Descriptions of 
Stylus stigmatibus tribus. 
Semina ovata, triquetra, glabra, acuminata lutea (Fig. 3. c). 
Habitat in Carolina. 
As Carex intumescens, above described, may possibly be sup- 
posed, from its inflated capsules, to be nearly allied to Carex folli- 
culata of Linne, I have annexed a figure of the latter taken from 
a specimen I received from America, and of which there is one in 
every respect similar in the Herbarium of Sir Joseph Banks. 
Carex folliculata. 
Carex spicis terminalibus pedunculatis : mascula foemineaque, 
capsulis subulatis longitudine spicse. Linn. Sp. PL 1387. 31. 
Tab. IX. Fig. 4. 
Gramen cyperoides marianum, tamarisci belgarum pericarpiis ad 
interval] unq calami gloineratis. Fluk. Mant. 96\ £.419-./. 1, 
Habitat in Canada. 
Carex ilexilis. 
Carex spicis fcemineis ovato-oblongis pendulis, capsulis ovatis 
rostris acuminatis. 
Tab. X. Fig. 1. 
Folia erecta, tenuia, marginibus carinaque hirsuta, culmo breviora. 
Culmus triqueter, debilis, angulis glabris. 
Spica una mascula angusta, terminal is, erecta, fere uncialis. 
Spicce fazminece tres vel quatuor, pedunculatae, pedunculis longis* 
inferiori longiore, oblongo-ovatse demum penduke, dure prope 
summitatem culmi oriuntur, infim'se remote ex sinu foliorum 
prodeunt. 
Squama ovatae, acutae, margine hirsuta?, capsula fere dirnidiobre- 
viores (Fig. 1. a.). 
Capsula 
