170 Da. Gooptnoucn’s Ob/erwations 
tem fdminez, Spica mafcula terminalis, linearis, teretiufculus, 
biuncialis, recta, Squama pallidè virentes, ovato-oblongæ, acute, 
margine membranaceo, albo, nervo dorfali lato, viridi. Spice 
foeminez circiter feptem, omnes filiformes, teretes, remotæ, primo 
eredz, mox pendule, pedunculatæ, floribus laxé imbricatis; fu- 
periores fzpiüs floribus aliquot mafculis terminalibus. Squamz ut 
in mafculà. Ad bafin omnis pedunculi braétea, f. folium vaginans, 
fatis longum, vagina pedunculi longitudine. Cap/xla oblonga, 
triquetra, acuta, ore indivifo, fquamà demum fere duplo longior. 
Filamenta tria, antheris SEES pallide flavis. Stylus ftigmati- 
bus tribus. 
In Ray’s  Sympfis P- 419. n. 11. there is a fhort, but very expreffive 
defcription of this plant. In noting however the affinity between 
this and C. /y/vatica, it is alledged that this has either none or 
very fhort footitalks ; and other authors have copied this error— 
It has in fact long footftalks, but they are concealed within the 
- vagina— This concealment led the old botanifts to defcribe it as 
having none. 
It differs from /y/vatica by its having its peduncles fcarcely longer 
than the vagina, and by its capfules being three-cornered and 
acute, but not with a long taper roftrum. 
My friend Dr. ohn Sibthorp, the learned Regius Profeffor of Bo- 
tany in the univerfity of Oxford, has lately difcovered this plant in 
another fituation in the neighbourhood of Oxford, 
22. CAREX P R JE C O X. 
C. vaginis brevibus fubæquantibus, bi approximatis ; mafculA 
fubclavata ; foemineis ovatis, capfulis fubrotundis pubefcentibus. 
Buddle, Hort. Sic. p. 30. n. 6 & 8. Uvedale, Herb. Rayan. vol. 12. 
P: 63. n. 3. 
Gramen 
