142 Dr. GoopExovcn's Obfervations 
I do not pretend to be the #rf difcoverer of the difference of the 
capfule in capitata and dioica, as mentioned above.—Dr. Smith, long 
before I had the happinefs of his acquaintance, had, unknown to 
me, communicated it to fome of his friends. As his herbarium 
muft be confidered as the fountain-head of all botanical authority, 
I was particularly happy in the coincidence of his opinion, and, in 
deference to it, added to the fpecific defcription of C. dioica, capfu- 
larum marginibus ferrulatis. : 
2. CAREX PULICARIS. 
Spica fimplici androgyna fuperné mafcula, capfulis divaricatis re- 
troflexis utrinque acuminatis. Uvedale, Herb. Rayan. vol, 12. 
p. 68. n. 3. | | 
Carex minima. Mich. Gen. 66. t. 33. f. 1. 
Gramen cyperoides minimum, &c. . Morif. Hif. Ox. IIT. p. 244. 
f, 8. t. 12. f. 1. Pluk. Ab. t. 24.4. 10. 
Fl. Lappon. n. 339. Leers, 198. t. 14. f: 1. Fl, Ang. 402. Fi, 
Scot. 543. FI. Dan. 166. 
Habitat in paludibus turfofis & limofis. ' Junio. 
Radix fibrofa, perennis. Folia fetacea, faturaté virentia, rigida, 
glabra, erecta, culmo breviora canaliculata, hinc convexiufcula & 
nervofo-angulata. Cu/mus erectus teretiufculus glaber 3-12 uncialis. 
Spica fimplex, cylindracea, terminalis. Flores mafculi plurimi fu- 
periores, foeminei circiter totidem inferiores laxé imbricati. Squamæ 
fubfufcæ, ovatæ, acutæ, capfulà breviores, nervo dorfali viridi, de- 
cidux. Cap/ule ovate utrinque acuminate, trigonz, glaberrimæ, 
mox divaricatz, demum pendulz ore integro. Filamenta tria; an- 
there lineares flava. Stigmata duo. 
Obf. Squamz florum mafc. obtufiores quam fœmin, 
-This plant is fo very diftin& in itfelf, and is fo well diftinguifhed 
