RE Bae RRR y eoe 
WU terne penser 
on tbe Britifo Species of Carex. 161 
The figure of Mrcbelius is too accurately drawn to admit of any doubt 
in the application of it: neither would this plant have ever come 
iuto difpute, had not Loe/el’s figure t. 32, been adduced to reprefent 
it. How that miftake arofe I know not—It feems to have origi- 
nated with Mr. Ray* himfelf. See Ray Syn. p. 424. Loefél’s figure 
 aptly enough reprefents Linnæus’s C. canefcens and Hudfon's brizoides, 
particularly the latter, for the outline of both is nearly the fame: - 
but it has nothing to do with C. Z/vul/z. 
Carex d/vul/a has a weakifh reclining culm, a long interrupted 
fpike, with one or two branches at the bafe; the fpikelets are re- 
motes and the capfules, though ftanding loofe and a little fpread- 
ing, yet are not diverging. This laft circumftance is worth attend- 
ing to, as it keeps it diftinét from thin ftarved fpecimens of Carex 
vulpina, as figured by Leers, t. 14. f. 3. 
153 CAREX VULPINA. 
. C. fpicá fupra-decompofità coar&tato-ramos4 obtusa, fpiculis fupernè 
mafculis, capfulis divergentibus, culmi angulis aomtiffimis. Buddle 
Hort. Sic. p. 32. n. I. 
Carex paluftris major, radice fibrosà, caule exquifité triangulari, 
{pica brevi habitiori compacta, Mich. Gen. 69. t. 33. f. 13., 
Gramen cyperoides paluftre majus. Park. 1266. Morif. Hifi. Oxon. 
III. 244. f. 8. t. 12. f. 24. 
Leers, t. 14 f. 5. With. 1030, where fee an account of the feveral 
varieties of this fpecies. FJ. Dan. t. 308. Pollich. n. 876. Fi. 
Suecica, n. 838. Fl. Angl: p. 404. 
* Mr. Ray was in general fo very accurate that it may be queftioned whether later 
writers have not miftaken him. Loe/e/’s figure is fo plain and chara&teriftic, that it may 
be doubted whether Rays fynogym does not aCtually relate to Lee/el, that is, to our 
C. curta. 
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