on the Britifb Species of Carex. Ig! 
C. montana. FY. Suecica, n. 845. Leers; t. 16. f. 6. 
C. pilulifera. Sp. PL 1385. FL. Angl. 408. Fi. Scot. 554. 
Withering, 1039. Fi. Dan. 1048. 
Habitat in pafcuis & ericetis humidis paffim. Aprili, Maio. 
Radix fibrofa, perennis. Fola ex flavefcenti amcené viridia, tc- 
nuia, culmo breviora, marginibus carináque „apicem verfus hifpida. 
Culmus debilis, incurvus, fæpiès recumbens, triqueter, angulis acutis 
fub-levibus, 3—6 uncialis, & ultra. Sica, una mafcula, & circiter 
tres fœmineæ, Spica mafcula terminalis, linearis, aliquando oblon- 
giufcula, tenuis; {quamis oblongo-ovatis, acutis, fufcis, nervo dorfali 
viridi, margine tenero albido. Foeminez tres, ad bafin mafculæ, 
approximate, oblongæ, acute, maturiores fubrotunde; duæ 
inferiores braéteà brevi, foliaceà, feflili, fubtenduntur; fuperior 
braéteà membranaceá, ovata, carinatá, quæ denuó in mucronem 
foliaceum definit; fquamz fere ut in mafculà fed pallidiores, cap- 
fulam maturam fubæquantes. Cap/ula mox nigricans, fubrotunda, 
fub-tomentofa, mucronata, mucrone brevi obtufiufculo, apice in- 
divifo. Filamenta ut in ceteris. Stylus ftigmatibus tribus. 
Off. In fpicis foemineis, flores terminales plerumque mafculi. 
Poft breve tempus hi decidui funt, unde {pice fzpiüs rotundæ 
evadunt. Spica inferior variat, fed rarius, breviter peduncu- 
lata. ; 
I own that I ftill hefitate what name I ought to add to this 
fpecies. Dr. Smith tells me, it certainly is the C. montana of the 
Linnean herbarium; and that, from the quotation of Plukeners | 
figure, we may be equally certain Linneus defcribed it from thence 
as his original C. pilulifera, without having a fpecimen in his col- 
le&tion, 
