en the Britifh Species of Carex. 18% 
Feannot think it poffible that a plant of this fize, in the neigh 
bourhood of London, could have efcaped fo long unnoticed. Pro 
bably the vagina was never attended to; 
31. CAREX SYLVATICA. 
C. vaginis abbreviatis, fpicis filiformibus laxis pendulis, capfulis: 
ovatis ariftato-roftratis. 
Buddle, Hort. Sic. p. 29. n. 4. 
Uvedgle, Herb. Rayan, vol..12. p. 67. n. T: 
: p. 69. n. I. 
D« 735 De Tos 
Gramen cyperoides fylvarum tenuius fpicatum. 
—. Morif, Hift. Oxon. MI. 243. f. 8. t. 12. f. Qr- 
. Park, 1172. . Scheuchzer, 4986. ^ | s 
Leers, 15. 2. » Withering, 1047. Fl. Dan. 404, FL bal gir- 
FI. Scot. 562. 
Carex patula. Pollich. n. 896. 
~ 
Habitat in fylvis paffim: Maio,- Junio. 
` Radix fibrofa, perennis. Folia pallidè virefcentia, ad margines - 
carinamque fuperné hifpida, culmo breviora. Cw/mus bipedalis 
& ultra, erectus, triqueter, angulis fupernè obtufiufculis, glabris: 
Spice, una (rarius duæ) mafcula, circiter fex foeminez, omnes a fe - 
invicem remotz. Spica maícula terminalis, erecta, linearis, trique- 
tra, uncialis, biuncialis, atque etiam ultra. Squamz flavefcentes, 
bafi. albà, nervo. dorfali viridi, oblonge, acute. Spice fœmineæ 
longius pedunculatz, citò pendulæ, filiformes, floribus laxé imbri- 
catis. Squamz. flavefcentes, nervo dorfali viridi, ovate, acuminate, 
capi. breviores. . Ad.bafin omnis pedunculi braétea f. folium: 
vaginanss , 
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