MÀ em 
"en the Britifh Species of Carex. 179 
recte, pedunculatæ, valdé remote ; fquamis acutiufculis, capfula 
"brevioribus. | Ad bafin omnis pedunculi bractea f. folium vaginans. 
"Vagina inferior. non pedunculi longitudine, tamen plufquam di. 
midium occupat; fuperiores pedunculos fuos æquant. Vaginæ in 
foliola abeunt fpicis fuis multoties longiora, at culmo breviorà—- 
Capfule fub-triquetræ, ovate, acuminate, ore fub-divifo. Filantenta 
ut in cæteris—Sfylus ftigmatibus tribus. 
The remarkable diftance at which the female fpikes ate placed 
from each other, is a diftinétion too obvious to admit of any doubt. 
C. birta has them fituated in the fame manner ; but the leaves are 
hairy, and the. capfules villous, in that {pecies—in C. difans they 
are both perfectly fmooth. | 
It ufually flowers in May: and nae 
pe 28. CAREX PANICEA. " 
C. vaginà Mid: fabdimidistà: fuperioribus fub-æquantibus ; fpicis 
ere&tis remotis, capfulis inflatis obtufiufculis fub-diftantibus. 
Uvedale, Herb. Rayan. vol. 12. p. 62. n. I. 
Cyperoides folis caryophylleis (caule rotundo-triquetro), fpicis e 
- rarioribus & tumidioribus veficis compofitis. Mich. Gen. t. 32. 
£ rt | 
FJ. Suecicay ae Var. f. 
Les t. 15 £. 5. FL Dan. at mala, Fl. Scot. (558. ern, 
1044 
Habitat in pratis & pafcuis RE Mio, Junio. 
: Radix repens, perennis. Folia glauca, marginibus carinâque af- 
periufculis, culmo breviora. Culmus ereétus; triqueter, angulis acu- 
-— glabris, fub-pedalis. Spice, una (rarius dux) mafcula, 
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