on tbe Britifh Species of Carex. 157 
But Leers’s figure is moft excellent, which work he quotes. See 
Carex acuta, Fl. Hal. n. 959. 
I2 CAREX DIVISA. Ta. t9. fg. 2. 
Spicà ovatà fub-decompofità foliolo erecto inftruétà, fpiculis fub- 
confertis, capfulis adpreffis, radice repenti. Buddle’s Hort. Sic 
P. 31. n. 3. F7. Angl. p. 405.—Withering. p. 1033. ; 
Habitat in paluftribus maritimis. Maio, Junio. 
_ Radix valdé repens, craffa, perennis. Fo//a faturaté viridia, erecta, 
ad margines carinafque afperiufcula, culmo longiora, angufta, apicem 
verfus tenuiffima. Cu/nus erectus, debilis, pedalis & ultra, ad fpicam 
foliofus foliolo fæpiùs longiffimo (variat autem & brevi, immó bre- 
vilimo) tenui, ere&o, triqueter angulis acutiflimis (variat etiam 
obtufiufculis) afperiufculis. , Spica compofita eft ubi nec raró de- 
compofita, quippe ad bafin fpicæ divifio fit, unde decompofitio 
oritur. Scilicet ramulus breviffimus, fi fas fit hoc nomine appel- 
lare, fpiculas quafdam ovatas confertas gerit. Sub omni fpiculà 
bractea fufca, oblonga, inferius lata, apice in fetam brevem definens, 
fubtenditur. Spicule ovatæ, fub-contiguæ, erectz, floribus termina- 
libus mafculis. Squamæ fufcæ, ovate, acutiffimz, capfulà longiores. 
Capfule ovate, acute, hinc fub-cavz, illinc gibbz, arétè imbricatæ, 
 rachi appreffz, nec minimé patentes, apicem verfus fub-membra- 
nacco-marginatz. Filamenta ut in cexteris—Sty/us fligmatibus 
duobus; & iifdem, fepiüs prz maritos tardos exfpectando, longi-. 
oribus. | 
I have not ventured to adduce any fynonyms from Lobel, Gerard, 
or Parkinfon. The fimilarity between this and miuricata is in fome 
ftages of. growth. and fituations too clofe to be kept apart by fuch 
de fis : 
rude bgures This. 
mme 
