on tbe Britifu Species of Carex. 195 
feems fomewhat furprifing that, when planted in a garden, its 
leaves fhould wither at the firft approach of winter; but even in 
that ftate they retain much of their rigidity. 
I am indebted to that acute obferver, Mr. Dick/on, for plants of 
this fpecies brought by him from Scotland, where it is s frequent 
Spon the tops of high hills. 
39 CAREX CZESPITOSA. Tas, 21. fig. 8. 
C. digyna, vaginis nullis, fpicis fub-feffilibus fub-cylindricis obtufi iy 
. foliis erectis molliufculis. 
Buddle Hort. Sic. p. 30. n. 2. 
Fl. Suecica, n. 855. 
_ Habitat in paluftribus, in nemorofis humidis, Maio. 
- Radix valdé repens, perennis. Folia molliufcula, amené viridia, 
fub-glauca, erecta, culmum zquantia, marginibus carinâque apicem 
verfus afperiufcula. Culmus erectus 4-12 uncialis & ultra, fub- 
debilis, triqueter, angulis acutis, afperiufculis. Spice, una mafcula 
(rarids duæ), tres foeminez. Spica mafcula erecta, terminalis, ob- 
longa, triquetra, 1-1 unciam longa; fquamis ovatis, obtufis—Spicæ 
fœmineæ duz aut tres, fub-cylindricæ, obtufæ, fub-feffiles—{ci- 
licet inferior breviter pedunculata, fuperiores feffiles... Flores ple- 
rumque fexfariam, rard o&ofariàm, denfè imbricati —Squamz ovate, 
. acutiufcule (fed variant nec infrequenter obtufæ), capfulà matura 
breviores, nigrz, nervo dorfali viridi Ad fpicas faemineas bractea 
Icon erecta, feffilis, i. e. culmum ne minimé quidem amplectens, 
"Ceca bafi 
