on the Britifo Species of Carex. 173 
as I have before obferved, in her Majesty’s poffeffion.—I am 
therefore enabled to pronounce, that this plant is Mr. Lightfoor’s 
Carex tomentofa. — 
It is readily diftinguifhed from all Carices in its very foliage. 
Its leaves are narrow, very long, oftentimes a yard; and they end 
in a long and very taper point, fomething like the American Dac- 
tylis cynofuroides. In fruétification it is equally diftinct, by having 
generally two male fpikes and never more, and capfules downy, 
almoft woolly. This is in the Linnean herbarium with the name 
filiformis infcribed by Linnæus himfelf, therefore we can have no 
doubt about its identity. It is fomewhat furprifing that Linnæns 
never mentioned the downinefs of the capfules— This omiffion 
naturally led Mr. Lightfoot, who otherwife fufpected it to be Lin- 
naus’s filiformis, to call it tomentofa. 
The narrownefs of the foliage being fo remarkable, I wonder that 
Linneus did not take the hint from Scheuchzer, and name it C. te- 
mufola. —— i; j : 
I am much indebted to the Rev. Mr. Williams of Eaton, near 
Shrew/bury, for roots and fpecimens of this plant. I received roots 
alfo from my friend Dr. Sibthorp of Oxford, who was likewife in- 
debted to Mr. Williams for them. Cultivated in a garden, it 
never, or rarely flowers. 
24 CAREX FLAVA. 
C. vaginis brevibus fub-æquantibus foliolo divaricato, {pica mafcula 
lineari; fœmineis fubrotundis, capfulis roftrato-acuminatis. 
Buddle, Hort. Sic. p. 30. n. 11. 
Gramen cyperoides aculeatum Germanicum. Mor. Hif. Ox. III, 
245. 1. 8. t. 12. f. 19. 
Gramen 
