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bafin mafculæ, confertiufculæ ; aliquando autem inferior remotiuf- 
cula, ovata (fuperiores fub-conicæ), acutiufcula; omnes ple- 
rumque breviter pedunculate ; fquamis ovatis, fufcis, nervo dorfali 
craffiufculo, qui in mucronem prominulum definit, capfula demum 
duplo brevioribus. Ad bafin fpicarum feeminearum braétea foliacea, 
quz vagina fuâ pedunculum totum, qui quidem omnino brevis eft, 
amplectitur: inferior longiffima, & culmum longiffimé fuperat: 
fuperiores breviores; interdum fuperior culmo brevior. Omnes 
denique reflexz. Cap/uie glabræ, patentes, fub-trigonz, nervofz, 
ovatæ, acutz, apice in denticulos duos divifo, roftro (fi roftrum 
fas fit dicere) breviffimo. Filamenta tria. Stylus ftigmatibus tribus. 
. This plant has always, I believe, paffed as a variety of Carex flava. 
However, the fruétification proves it to be entirely diftinét. 
In C. extenfa the leaves are narrower than in C. flava, and the 
whole plant is flenderer and taller. The fquamz of the female 
fpikes are ovate and bluntifh, with the nerve ending in a very fhort 
projecting point, and are fhorter in proportion to the capfule than 
in C. ffava. The capfules are rather acuminated, but by no 
means roftrated or beaked, and the fummit is flightly bifid. The 
braéteæ are ufually reflexed. The female fpikes have their pe- 
duncles only of the length of the vagina, and not longer. The 
capfules alío are patent, but very rarely divaricated. "This plant 
does not owe its height to being drawn up by the furrounding 
herbage, for I have always found it in open places. 
I have found it in the marfhy ground near Harwich, and in the 
maríhy ground on the welt fide of Braunton Burrows, in the north 
of Devonfhire. It is not a common plant. 
Oëf. The circumftance of the fpikes being cluftered together is 
very conftant in this fpecies, but it is by no means fo in C. flava, 
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