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192 Dr. Goopenoucx’s Obfervaiions 
le&ion. It muft be confefled, that the plant in the Linnean her- 
“barium, afterwards gathered by Dr. So/ander in Lapland, and 
named pilulifera, is very different from this I am now treating of. 
It is very robuft and erect, the fpikes alfo are larger and more 
' crowded, neither is there any male {pike to be feen. Probably it 
is the Carex alpina of the F7. Danica 403. It muft therefore be 
concluded that that was not the plant which Linnæus originally 
intended. I have no-doubt but he fpoke of one and the fame | 
plant under two names. I fhould think that in its more fruit- 
ful ftate, with three female fpikes, he called it pz/ulifera : in its more 
ftarved appearance, when produced on elevated and dry plains, 
where it has only two, and not unfrequently only one female fpike, 
he called it montana. 
- The figures in Plukenet and Morifon are very Bree: but are 
too erect. The roundnefs of the female fpikes happens from the 
terminal flowers being ufually male and deciduous: as thefe wi- 
ther away, the fpikes affume their round form, otherwife they are 
in general oblong. The capfules are fomewhat downy, as in C. 
precox, but the linear male fpike, the female ones fefüle, and 
. the reclining culm, mark its diftinétion in all ftages of its 
growth. 
. Mr. Hudfon having adopted the name pilulifera, and in NS 
quence that name having univerfally obtained with us, not to 
mention that it is more expreffive than montana, I thought it beft, 
upon mature deliberation, to continue it, 
48. CAREX 
