460 Dr. GoopENoven’s Obfervations 
Var. f. There is a variety rather flenderer in its form, with its 
{pike rarely decompound—The culm is not fo rough on its angles, 
. and towards the bafe it is roundifh, infomuch that many havetaken 
it for divifa of Hudf inclined fo to do by his fpecific defcription, 
and by Parkinfon's fynonym. Michelius, te 33. f. 12, and Scheuchzer, 
t. II. f. 5. are rather reprefentations of this variety. A plant of 
Jt is preferved in vol. 12. of Uvedak’s Herb. Rayanum, p. 72. n. 2. 
14 CAREX DIVULS A. 
Spicà decompofità elongata -bafi Gibsrepapils {piculis inferioribus 
remotis; fummis contiguis, capfulis fub-ercétis. Buddle, Hort. Sic. 
p. 32. n. 4. Pet. Hort. Sic. p. 166. n. 2. and p. 167. n. 1. 
Carex nemorofa, fibrofà radice, caule exquifité triangulari, fpicà 
longa divulsà feu interruptà, capitulis folitariis, praeterquam 
ultimo. Mich. Gen. 69. t. 33. f. 10. Withering, 1035. 
C. canefcens, F7. Ang. 405. 
Habitat in nemorofis humidis. Maio, Junio, Julio. 
Radix perennis, fibrofa. Folia faturaté viridia, fubangufta, carina 
marginibufque afperis, culmo longiora. Culmus pedalis, fefqui- 
pedalis, debilis, fub-reclinatus, triqueter, angulis acutis afperiuf- 
culis. Spica interrupta, elongata, bafi fub-ramofa, androgyna— 
Spiculz inferiores remotz, plurimæ, ovate, feffiles, bracteis fetaceis 
. hifpidis; fuperiores contigua floribus mafculis terminalibus. Squamae 
membranacez, albæ, ovatz, mucrónatz, nervo dorfali viridi qui in 
mucronem exit, capfulis longiores. Cap/u/a ovata, acuta, hinc plana, 
illinc convexiufcula, erectiufcula, ore bifido. Stamina tra. Stylus 
brevis, ftigmatibus duobus. 
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