on the Britifo Species of Carex. 163 
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16. CAREX TERETIUSCULA. Taz. 10. fig. 3. 
Spica fupra-decompofita coarétato-ramosâ acutiufculà, fpiculis glo- 
meratis fuperné mafculis, capfulis patentibus, culmo teretiuf- 
culo. | 
Habitat in paluftribus propé Norwich. Dom. Crowe. Maio, 
Radix fibrofa, perennis. Folia viridia, erecta, rigidiufcula, cul- 
mi feré dimidium vaginantia, vagina fuperà hinc membranaceà 
tranfverfim rugofà, bafi extus convexa, intus canaliculata, fupernè 
carinata ut in cæteris accidit, oris carinàque afpera, culmo florifero 
longiora—Folium fuperum cæteris longius evadit.—Cu/zus florifer 
folis + brevior, triqueter angulis acutis afperis, inter angulos 
autem quafi torus longitudinalis prominulus, adeó ut culmus tere- 
tiufculus vifus eft. Culmus tandem pedalis, fefquipedalis evadit. 
—Spica androgyna, terminalis, ovato-oblonga, acutiufcula, fupra- 
decompofita, bracteà infimä breviffimà, bafi dilatatä, utrinque mem- 
branacea fufcà, margine ipfo albo, in fetam definenti fpiculà fu& 
breviori. Spiculæ &fpiculellæ ovatæ, acutz, feffiles—Flores mafculi | 
fuperiores, plures; foeminei inferiores, circiter fex—Squamz fufcae 
margine albo membranaceæ, nervo dorfali viridi abbreviato, ovatz, 
acutæ.—Cap/ule ovate, acute, hinc planiufculæ, illinc convexæ, 
gibbæ, marginibus ferrato-hifpidis, patentes—Maturz fquamä fub- 
tensà + longiores. Filamenta tria, antheris linearibus flavis. Syg- 
mata duo. | 
I underftand that Mr. Crowe of Norwich is the difcoverer of this 
plant. It comes very near C. paniculata, but it is nearly twice as 
{mall in all its parts., 
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