on the Britifh Species of Cares. 177 
20 CAREX FULYA. Tas. 20. fiz. 6. 
. C. vagina infimå fubdimidiatà ; fuperioribus fubæquantibus, fpicis 
fcemineis duabus oblongis acutis, capfulis roftrato-acuminatis. 
um diftans. Fi Dan. t. 1049. 
- Habitat propè Eaton, juxta Shrewfbury, in agro Salopienfi. 
Rev. E. Williams. Junio, Julio. à 
Radix repens, perennis. Folia erecta, anguíta, marginibus cari- 
nâque afperis, culmo breviora. Cu/mus erectus, tenuis, fub-pedalis, 
triqueter, angulis acutis, afperis. Spice, una -mafcula, duæ ple- 
rumque foeminex. Spica mafeula terminalis, fub-linearis, femun- 
cialis & ultra, acutiufcula ; fquamis flavefcentibus, margine albo, 
oblongis, modo obtufis, modo obtufiufculis. Spice foeminex fæpius 
remote, ovato-oblongæ, acutæ, inferior pedunculata, pedunculo 
longiufculo, fuperior _ fubieffilis ; ; fquamis oblongis, acutis, fæpe 
acutiufculis, capfulam fere. æquantibus. Ad bafin omnis fpicæ 
fœmineæ bractea f. folium vaginans; inferior erecta, culmum 
plerumque æquañs, vagina plufquam dimidium pedunculi am- 
ple&ente; fuperior fub-divaricata, culmo plerumque brevior, pe- 
dunculum, qui profe&to breviffimus eft, totum fere vagina occu- 
pans—interdum totum occupat. Cap/ele fub-trigonæ, nervis ftriatæ, 
oblongæ, roftrato-acuminatz, fquamas fub-æquantes, fepe exce- 
dentes, apicé divifo, patentes, nec divaricatæ, aut deorfum fpec- 
tantes.—Fylamenta tria—Stylus ftigmatibus tribus. 
Obf. Variat, fed rarius, fpicis foemineis tribus. 
‘This plant is fcarcely removed from C. fave. However, it 
differs from it in having the angles of the culm fharp and rough. 
‘The female fpikes are remote, oblong and acute, not round; the 
lowermoft is fuppoxted by a long footítalk, half of which nearly 
- Vos. II. Aa appears 
