on tbe Britifo Species of Carex, ISI 
8 CAREX AXILLARIS. Tas. 19. fy. 1. 
C. fpiculis axillaribus, fubternatis, remotis, feffilibus, foliolis longis, 
capfulis apice divifis, 
Præcedentis (remote) infignis varietas, fi non fpecies diftinéta. 
Buddle, Hort. Sic. p. 31. n. 6. 
Habitat prope Putney— Dom. Curtis, inter rariores. Maio, 
Junio. 
. Radix perennis, fibrofa—Folia radicalia angufta, compreffa, margi» 
nibus omnino, carina circiter dimidiam partem afperis, culmo 
etiam fub inflorefcentià brevioribus : Caulina, quz & bractez dican- 
tur, ad bafin fpicularum fita funt, Ícilicet ad omnem fpicularum ag- 
gregationem unicum, feflile, quorüm infimum culmo longius, cæ- 
tera breviora; omnia marginibus carinâque afperrima. Culmus erec- 
‘tus, firmus, ftrictus, triqueter, angulis acutis, etiam infra braéteam 
inferiorem afperrimis, 1—fere 3-pedalis. Spica androgyna interrupta, . 
fpiculis axillaribus, inferioribus fub-ternis, quandoque quaternis, 
quinis, ad bafin foliorum caulinorum f. bractearum, oblongze, fefliles, 
ageregate—F lores inferiores mafculi—Squamz ovata, acute, fuíceí- 
centes, membranacez, nervo dorfali viridi, capfulam fub-zquantes. 
Caplule ovate, acute, hinc planz illinc convexiuículz, lateribus 
apicem verfus ferrulatis, apice divifo. Filamenta ut in caeteris. 
Stylus ftigmatibus duobus. | 
The great difference between this and remota, to which it feems 
moft allied, is, that axillaris has a ftrong and rigid culm, remota a 
foft, thin, and weak one. Æxfllaris has its fpicule in the bafe of 
the leaves by threes, fometimes by fives, particularly the lowermoft. 
The 
