146 Dr. GoopENovcn's Obfervations 
Habitat, fed rarius, in paluftribus & aquofis. Junio. 
Radix fub-repens, perennis. Folia pallida fub-glauca, ad mare 
gines carinamque afpera, erecta anguíla. Culmus pedalis aut 
pauló altior, foliis pauló longior, ereétus, triqueter, angulis acutis 
afperiufculis. Spica compofita androgyna, fpiculis fex & ultra, erectis 
ovatis feffilibus alternis; ad fpiculam inferiorem braétea, fed rarius, 
foliaceà fetacea, ad. cæteras ovata alba tenera membranacea. 
Squamae albæ membranaceo-fericez, ovatæ, acute, concave, nervo. 
dorfali viridi, capfulà pauló breviores. Flores inferiores mafculi. 
Capfula ovata, acuta; hinc plana, illinc convexiufcula, fub lente 
punctulatiffima, marginibus integris, ore indivifo. Fi/amenta tria, 
antheris linearibus flavis, Siylus ftigmatibus duobus. 
That this Carex fhould have occafioned fome difficulty is not to 
be wondered at, when Limneus himfelf feems to have forgotten his 
own original determination upon the matter. In Sir sph Banks 
herbarium there is a Carex named érizoides, which anfwers entirely 
to the Linnean defcription ; % Spicé compofitd pisticHA nudå, fpiculis 
androgynis oBLONGIS CONTIGUIS, culmo nudo,’ in the Sp. Plant, 
p- 13815 to the fynonym of Haller; and to the figure of Mi ichelius, 
t. 33. f. 17. there quoted. 
_. In the Linnean herbarium, the plant I am now {peaking of is 
Bu brizoides by Linnæeus. himfelf, and it accords with. the 
fynonyms of Ray and Morifon quoted in the Sp. Pl, under brizoides. - 
Still, however, as the figure of Michelius is a more pointed autho- 
rity than the verbal defcriptions of the authors juft mentioned, I 
cannot but think that the plant in Sir Yo/eps’s herbarium is what 
was originally defcribed and intended for brizoides : : accordingly I 
fhall beg leave to accept it as fuch, and name this anew. For, at all 
events, it cannot anfwer to the defcription of Linnaus, for the {pike 
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