458 Da. GoopEenoven’s Ob/ervations 
. ‘This plant varies very much—fometimes the culm is triquetrous 
with very fharp angles, fometimes it is rather blunt; fometimes the 
erect floral leaf is extremely fhort, fometimes it is extended to a 
great length: but the root is always very thick and creeping; the 
leaves very narrow and ereét; the culm very thin, and has the 
habit of a Scirpus.—The fpike has its fpikelets fub-contiguous, 
often crowded ; and the capfules are clofely imbricated, and rather 
turning inward, not at all {preading or opening. 
The male flowers, which in this fpecies terminate the fpikeleti, 
appear very late, which often occafions a confiderable elongation of 
the ftyles waiting for their impregnation. Perhaps this circum- 
ftance might be urged as a collateral proof of the truth of the 
fexual fyftem. 
14 CAREX MURICATA. 
Spica oblonga fub-decompofita, fpiculis diftinétis, capfulis diver- 
gentibus ore fiffo, radice fibrosâ. Buddle, Hort. Sic. p. 32. n. 3 
Petrver. Hort. Sic. vol. 1. p. 166. n. 4. 
Gramen fylvaticum tenuifolium rigidiufculum. Morif. Hifi. Ox. III. 
LÉ Gt 19, L27 
Gramen cyperoides minus. fpicis minoribus minufque compaétis. 
Scheuchzer, 488. t. 11. f. 5. 
Carex nemorofa, fibrosá radice, anguftifolia, minimá caule exqui- 
fitè triangulari, {pica brevi interruptà. Michel, p. 69. t. 33. 
f. R, and fig. 14 Fi, Suecica, n. 839. 
C. fpicata. Flo. Angl. 406. Withering 1032. Flora Scot. 548. 
Habitat in fylvis & pratis humidis. Maio, Junio. 
Radix fibrofa, perennis. Folia amoené viridia, angufta, ad oras 
carinafque afpera, culmo longiora. Culmus erectus, pedalis & ultra, 
triqueter, 
