on the Britifh Species of Carex. 153 
% to. CAREX ARENARIA. 
Spica foliosà oblonga .acutiufculd, fpiculis plurimis; terminalibus 
mafculis ; inferioribus foemineis, culmo incurvo. Buddie, Hort. 
Si. p. 31. n. 7. Mich. Gem p. 67. n. 1 & 2. f. 3. quoad 
figuram fpica, & f. 4. 
Carex arenaria. Leers, t. 14. f. 2. FJ. Suec. n. 835. Fi. NM p. 404. 
Fi, Scot. 545. Withering, 1029. 
Habitat in arenofis maritimis. Junio. 
Radix valde repens, craffa, ramis divaricatis. Folia angufta, 
nigro-viridia, ad margines carinamque afperiufcula, variantia culmo 
breviora, longiora. Cu/mus incurvus, 4-12 uncialis, triqueter, an- 
gulis acutis fcabriufculis. Spica compofita fpiculis circiter 7-16 ob- 
longis, androgynis, furfum imbricatis, inferné remotiufculis, brac- 
teatis, bracteis foliaceis, inferioribus brevibus, in folium tenuiffi- 
mum definentibus; fuperioribus ovatis membranaceis fub-aphyllis. 
In omni fere fpiculà flores terminales mafculi—Spicule inferiores 
fub-foeminez, fuperiores fub-mafculz. Squamæ ovate, acuta, (longo 
fæpiùs acumine), capfulas maturas æquantes. Cap/ule ovatz, acu- 
minatz, hinc plane fulcatæ, illinc carinatz, apicem verfus utrin- 
que alatæ f. margine membranaceo, ore bifido. Filamenta & antheræ 
ut in ceteris. Stylus ftigmatibus duobus. 
Mr. Lightfoot’s defcription of this plant is very well drawn: but I 
have fpoken fufficiently of it under C. intermedia. It is not ufually 
found but in the vicinity of the fea-fhore, and there, for the moit 
part, in loofe fand. I have been told that it has been found in the 
inland parts of Germany, in fand, which evidently appears to be the 
fame as what we call fea-fand, and, perhaps, before the difavian 
wreck of the world, had its place on the fea-fide, 
Vor. II. X ] have 
