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bafi pariter auriculatæ. Cap/ula ovata, hinc planiufcula, glabra, 
obtufiufcula; variat autem producta, acutiufcula, fub-recurva.— 
Filamenta ut in cxteris. Stylus ftigmatibus duobus, crafliufculis, 
albis, pilofis. 
Oëf. Flores inferiores fæpè remotiufculi. Cap/ule ore indivifo. 
Braétearum auriculæ fatis magnæ, fub-rotundæ. 
This plant has often been confounded with the /zxariis of Lin- 
næus, and the montana of Mr. Hudfon. It differs from the montana, 
by its having no vaginz, two ftigmata, and fmooth capfules; from 
the /axatilis, by its being a thicker and much fmaller plant; and 
from both, by the great rigidity of its leaves and incurved ftalk. 
In Sir Fofeph Banks’s herbarium is a fine fpecimen collected by Mr. 
Hudfon, the culms of which are much incurved. I have culti- 
vated this plant, and find that the culm keeps the tendency to in- 
curvation. I fhould apprehend that the bleak expofure on the 
tops of mountains contributes to the incurvation obfervable in its 
wild ftate. 
The rigidity of its leaves, and their being fpread abroad, or, as it 
oftener happens, bent back, diftinguifh it from ce/pitofa, whofe 
leaves are upright and foft. : By the fame marks it may always be 
kept feparate from C. fra, which alfo is altogether upright. But 
the fructification of thefe three fpecies, efpecially in the number of 
ftyles, is very fimilar, 
It is poffible that the root leaves of this plant, arched back, 
and of a firm nature, may afford protection to many of the winged 
inhabitants of the windy tops of alpine fituations. 
Confidering the cold fituation of the natal foil of this plant, it 
2 > feems 
