EG Da. .GoopzNoUcE'r Offéruations 
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‘Spice, una. maícula, ; terminalis, linearis,, fquamis, flavefcentibus, 
nervo dorfali viridi ovato-oblongis, acutiufculis. Spice, foeminex 
remote, longè pedunculatz, erecte, pauciflore—quaque {cilicet 
fpica circiter 3—6 flores gerit. Flores laxe. difpofiti. Squamæ 
flavefcentes, nervo dorfali viridi (qui nervus in mucronem definit), 
oblongo-ovatz, acute, capiula fere dimidio breviores. Ad bafin 
„omnis pedunculi braétea f. folium vaginans, quod circiter tertiam 
partem pedunculi, nec “dimidium, amplectitur. Vagina in folio- 
lum abit fzpiffim culmo longius. Capfula oblongo-ovata, inflata, 
fub-triquetra, erecta, roftrata, ore indivifo. Filamenta tria, antheris 
Tinearibus flavis. Szy/us ftigmatibus tribus. des 
Obf. Capfule fæpius bifariàm imbricata. 
bis do not hefitate to adduce the fynonym and gue of Michelias: 
It cer tainly belongs to this plant, as any one may fatisfy himfelf 
who will take the trouble to obferve how accurately the vaginz 
are reprefented. In the vefcariz, to which it has been applied, there 
are no vagine—In this they embrace almoft half of the peduncle 
er footftak. Micheliui’s figure plainly conveys this idea. 
Its diftant long-pedunculated fpikes, and few capfules, readily 
diftinguifh this fpecies from all others. This laft circumftance 
induced the late Dr. So/ander to name it in his MSS. C, depaupes 
rata, whom Dr. Withering firft followed. 
. Mr. Curtis has given us an excellent figure of it under the name 
of Carex ventricofa. 
I had the good fortune to find this fpecies in Charlton wood— 
Mr. Dickfon has told me that it is not unfrequent in dry Woods 
near Godalmin in Surrey. I apprehend, from the form of the Cap». 
fule, that it has been taken for a . ftarved variety. of C. Tficaria ; as. 
LEE I cannot 
