I90 —— Dr. GoopeNnoven’s Ob/ervations 
etiam in ceteris quandoque accidit. Spicæ omnes oblong, acuta, fe- 
munciales, pedunculatæ, pedunculo longo, demüm pendulæ, appro- 
ximatæ. Squamæ ovatæ, acutæ, nigræ, nervo tenuiori dorfali, viridi, 
capfulà pauló longiores. Ad omnem pedunculum braétea foliacea; 
infima culmo plerumque longior, fed variat brevior, fubfeffilis: eft 
ubi inferior bafin pedunculi, at breviflimé, amplectitur. Cap/ule 
viridis, ovata, fæpe acuta, comprefla, apice breviter divifo. Filamenta 
duo, antheris linearibus flavis. Stylus. ftigmatibus tribus, villofis. 
| This fpecies with us has all its fpikes androgynous; in ftri& 
juftice, therefore, it fhould be arranged under the order Spicis.andro- 
gynis. But there is fomething in its habit fo perfectly conform- 
able to thofe ftyled Spicis fexu diftinélis, that rigid rule muft give 
way :—the fingularity in this fpecies is, that it has for the moft part 
only two ftamina, and a few hermaphrodite flowers. 
Its having no vaginz, or at leaft very minute oncs, and black. 
ovate fpikes, are marks fufficient to diftinguifh it readily from all 
others with which it can come in any competition. 
The fpecimen in the Linnean herbarium feems to be the fame as 
our Englifh plant; but that has its terminal {pike evidently 
male. 
Scheuchzer’s figure gives no bad reprefentation of the herma- 
phrodite flower. 
3- CAREX PILULIFER A. 
C. vaginis nullis, fpicá mafculà fub-lineari, foemineis fubrotundis 
feffilibus confertis, culmo debili. 
Buddle Hort. Sic. p. 30. n. 9. 
Gramen cyperoides tenuifolium, fpicis ad fammum Salen feffili- 
bus globulorum zmulis. Puk. pb. t. gt. f. 8. 
Mor. Hifl. Ox. UL, 243. f. 8. t. 12. f. 16. 
| : C. mon- 
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