164 Dr. GoopENovGH's Obfervations 
As far as cultivating it three years will enable me tofpeak, I 
will beg leave to ftate a difference. Its fpike is never in the 
leaft panicled, but always clofe: its feeds are remarkably gibbous 
on one fide, which is not obfervable in paniculata: its culm is not 
triangular, like that of paniculata, but, owing to a prominent line 
running down the planes of the fides, roundifh—not but that it 
always retains fomewhat of a triangular form, with its angles rough. 
Its leaves are erect, and ufually incurved—Paniculata lias them al- 
ways-{preading. It differs in ceconomy alfo, not forming thofe 
large tufts of grafs for which paniculata is fo remarkable. 
It has no affinity to vulpina, for its capfules are never diverging, 
nor its culm enlarged beneath the rachis of the fpike. 
As the round appearance of the culm is an obvious mark of 
diftinétion, I reft the fpecific difference principally upon that cir- 
cumftance. The gibbofity of the capfule alfo is very conftant. - 
Mr. Curtis favoured me with roots of this plant. 
17 CAREX PANICULATA. 
B 
€, {pica fupra-decompofità paniculato-ramosà acuta; ramis alternis 
remotiufculis, capfulis patentibus, culmo triquetro. Buddle Hort. 
Sic. p. 31. n. 1. Per. Hort. Sie. Vol. 1. p. 163. n. 1. both va- 
rieties ? 
Cyperus alpinus longus inodorus, paniculà ferrugined minus fparsà. 
Scheuchzer 499. prod. t. 8. 
Carex radice repenti caule exquifitè triangulari fpicà multiplici 
ferrugineà & fuícà. Mich, Gen. 68. t. 33. f. 7. 
Gramen cyperoides paluftre elatius fpicà longiore lax. Mori Hif. 
Oxon. MI. 244. f. 8.t. 12. f. 23. Sp. Plant. p. 1383. Leers; 
t. I4. f. 4 Pollich, n. 882. FY. Angl. 403. Withering 1036. 
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