178 Dr. Goon£noucx”s Ob/érvations 
appears above the vagina. Befides, it has fcarcely | ever more than 
two female fpikes. The lowermoft bractea is erect, and not diva- 
ricated. The capfules are not divaricated, but patent, and are 
flightly divided at the fummit. I regret that I have had no oppor- 
tunity of cultivating it. | 
I am indebted to the Reverend Mr. Williams of Eaton near Shrew/= 
bury for my knowledge of this plant as a native of Britain—I have 
received it from America and Newfoundland, but never underftood 
till very lately that it was an inhabitant of our country. 
27. CAREX DISTANS. 
c. vaginà infima ferè dimidiatà ; fuperioribus fubæquantibus, fpieis 
oblongis remotiffimis, capfulis acutis. 
Buddle, Hort. Sic. p. 29. f. 5. 
Uvedale, Herb. Rayan. vol. 12. p. 66. n. 1. 
Gramen cyperoides paluftre, fpicis tribus fubrotundis vix aculeatis, 
fpatio diftantibus. Mor. Hif. Ox. 243. f. 8. t. 12. f. 18. 
Carex {picis parvis longe diftantibus. Scheuchzer, 431. Wuthering, 
1049:..F/. Angl. 412. Fl. Scot. 561. Fl. Dan. 1948 
Carex panicea, FJ. Sutcica, Var. a? > 
Habitat in paluftribus, przcipué maritimis. Junio. 
Radix fbrofa, perennis. Folia: pallidè virefcentia, marginibus 
carinaque afperiufculis, culmum floriferum fub-æquantia.. Culmus 
- erectus, triqueter, angulis acutis, glabris, pedalis, bipedalis. Spice, 
“una eu rarius dug; tres fæmineæ. Be maltais termina- 
«& ultra 5 mex fub-flavefcentibus, : nervo dorfali viridi, margini- 
bus albis, obtufis: Spice foeminez oblonga, -unciales’ & ultra, 
« P: M < Es erecta, 
