at 
en the Britifh Species of Carex. 189 
tea foliacea, inferior culmum longè fuperans, cæteræ etiam culmum 
fuperantes; omnes fubfeffiles, aut bafin pedunculi, breviffimé qui- 
‘dem, amplectentes. Cap/ulæ oblongæ, ftriatæ, medio fub-ventri- 
cofæ, roftratæ, roftro longo, tenui, apice divifo, f. fub-furcato, fub- 
divaricatæ.— Flament tria.—Sty/us ftigmatibus tribus, albis. 
Linnæus took his character of this plant from its having two 
peduncles rifing from each joint of the cu/m. However, that is fo 
very uncertain a mark, that it is not poflible to place any depend- 
ance upon it. The circumftance of its having no vaginæ, or at 
beft very minute ones, and caf/u/es nearly divaricated, and ending 
in a long point, reprefents it in a fufficiently-diftinguifhable light. 
The intermediate peduncles are not unfrequently found doubled. 
36. CAREX ATRAT A. 
C. vaginis serol forcis ómnibus androgynis T pe- 
dunculatis: fruétiferis pendulis, capfulis ovatis acutiufculis. 
Cyperoides Alpinum pulchrum foliis caryophylleis, fpicis atris & 
tumentibus. 
Scheuchzer, p. 481. t. 11. f. x. 2. 
Fl. Suecica, 849. Fl. Anglica, 409. Fl. Dan. 158. 
Fl. Scot. 555. Withering, 1040. 
Habitat in montibus Cambro-Britannicis & Scoticis. PT Junio, 
Julio. 
Radix fibrofa, perennis. Folia lata, culmo breviora, carinata, 
marginibus carinaque afperis. Cu/mus erectus, triqueter, angulis 
acutis afperiufculis, pedalis; Spice non fexu diftinétæ, quippe 
fumma non mafcula, at plerumque foeminea, & ad bafii flores 
mafculos gerit, nec non quofdam hermaphroditicos fparfos, quod 
etiam 
