200 Dr. Goodenoucn’s Obfervations 
Mr. Curtis’s gracilis, in the leading points-of the Linnean character: 
Spicis mafculis pluribus, floribus digynis. 
It is obfervable, that Michelius’s figure has the female fpikes acute, 
rendered fo by the male flowers at the top; which appearance no 
Carex has fo conftantly as this. ! 
Some years ago I received roots of this plant from Mr. Prich- 
ford of Norwich: I have cultivated it ever fince, together with 
€. cæfpitofa ; neither have I obferved either of them vary from e 
defcription given above. | 
(UM AREX. RIPARIA. 
C. fpicis oblongis acutis 5 mafcularum fquamis lines: SN 
nearum ariftato-acuminatis, capfulis ovato-lanceolatis apice fur- 
cato-dentatis. 
Petiv. Hort. Sic. vol. I. p.157. 
Buddie, Hort. Sic. p. 28. n. 3, 4. 
Carero aquaticum maximum, &c. fquamis in ariftam longius 
… productis, capfulis oblongis, bifidis. Michel Nov. Gen, P. 57. 
ot. 32. f 6, 7. 
ramen cyperoides latifolium fpicà rufa cle: maiak Mor. 
EA. Or Ml. 1. 8. .t.-12.- f. r. 
Carex acuta, var. a. Hudf. Fl. Angl. p. 413. FI Scot. P. sr 
Carex riparia, Flora Londin. & Withering, p. 10-6. 
Habitat ad ripas foffarum fluviorumque; in paluftribus, & pratis 
7 humidioribus. Aprili, Maio. 
* 
Radix valdé repens, craffa, perennis. Folia lata, erecta, fupra pal- 
didiora, fubtus nigro-viridia, glauca, marginibus carináque afperri- 
: 5 
mis, 
