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184 Dr: GoopzNovón's Odjervations 
“vaginans, cujus vagina circiter quartam partem pedunculi amplec- 
titur. Vagina in folium abit fuà fpicà pauló longius. Caf/u/a 
ovata, acuminata, roftrata, roftro tenul, ore indivilo. Filamenia 
ut in cæteris.—Sfylus ftiematibus tribus. 
None of the figures of this plant, except that of Leers, give its 
due character. The figures of Mori/on, Parkinfon, and F7. Danica, 
reprefent it in its firft (tage of flowering when the fpikes are ercét.. 
It does not long continue in this attitude; for the fpikes, by rea- 
fon of their thin and long footítalks, as foon as the impregna- 
tion of their flowers has taken place, are too heavy for their weak 
fupporters. It ufually produces five or fix female fpikes, and 
one male, very rarely two. 
Every one muft be furprifed at L/gzeuss joining this as a va- 
Flety to veficaria and ampullacea. 
43. CAREX RECURV A. 
C. vaginis abbreviatis, {picis foemineis fub-cylindricis pendulis, cap- 
fulis rotundato-ovatis, radice repente. 
Buddle, Hort. Sic. p. 30. n. 3. 4. * 
."Gramen nemorofum {pica fubnigrà recurvà. Mori jf Hif. Ox. 1. 8. 
tor. f 14 
Cares limofa; Leers, Var. g. t.a 5. REM F1. Angl, p. At 3. Withers 
ing, 1050. Fl. Dan. 1051. LINT 
| Habitat in pratis, p nemoribus & ericetis. Maio, Junio. 
- Rai: repens, perennis. Folia glauca, pro magnitudine plantæ 
latiofcula, nareinibus carinâque afperrima.  Cw/mus erectus, tri- 
queter, angulis acutiufculis, glabriufculis, foliis radicalibus longior, 
pan, Spice, una (fæpè dua, rard tres) mafcula, tres feeminez. 
I Spica 
