on tbe Britifh Species of Carex. 145 
brevior, triqueter,angulis obtufiufculis obfoletè afperiufculis, mox pe- 
dalis & foliis longior. Spica compofita androgyna, fpiculis fub-ter- 
nis, remotis, ovatis, feffilibus: ad fpiculam inferiorem fæpius brac- 
tea, bafi ovata, in foliolum fetaceum culmo brevius definens; ad 
ceteras oblonga eft, membranacea, fufca, aphylla. Fres inferiores 
maículi laxius imbricati, fuperiores foeminei plures. Squamz ovatæ, 
acutz, fufcæ, margine membranaceo albo, nervo dorfali lato viridi, 
capfulà maturà breviores. Cap/ula oblonga acuminata, hinc plana, 
illinc convexiufcula, divergens, apice acuto fub-indivifo. Filamenta 
tria, antheris linearibus flavis. Stylus: ftigmatibus duobus. 
This little plant is well known to every botanift. It ftands in 
competition with none of its fraternity, and therefore cannot be 
miftaken. 
It varies in height from three to ten inches, according to its 
foil and fituation. On the Brecknockthire hills I have c it 
above a foot high. 
A floral leaf fometimes, but by no means conftantly, fubtends 
the loweft fpicula.. 
It is well obferved by Halter, that th? fpecies differs from murz- 
cata, by having the point of the capfule acute, and not bifid. 
8. GAREX.CURTA. 
C. fpiculis fub-fenis ovatis remotiufculis nudis, fquamis ovatis acu- 
tiufculis capfulà brevioribus. 
Gramen cyperoides fpicis curtis divulfis. Loefl. Pru. p. 117. 
it 22. 
C. elongata, Leers, p- 200. t. 14. f. 7. 
C. canefcens, Lightfoot, FI. Scot. p. 550. 
C. brizoides, Hudf FI. Angl. p. 406, 
C. cinerea, Withering, p. 1033. 
Voz. IL - U Habitat, 
