on the Britifo Species of Carex. 203 
appearance, and comes fo near riparia, that it is not to be feparated 
from it without a little clofe attention. The fcales of the male 
{pike will afford a conftant chara&er: they are always more or lefs 
blunt in this fpecies, and very acute in riparia. Its capfules are 
either not at all, or very flightly divided at the fummit, but not 
roftrated or furcated. From this circumftance I am inclined to 
add the fynonym of Michelius, t. 32. f. 6. to riparia—never hav- 
ing obferved the capfules of $a/udofa half fo deeply divided. 
43. CAREX ACUTA 
C. digyna, {picis filiformibus ; foemineis inflorefcentibus nutantibus s 
fruétiferis erectis, capfulis acutiufculis apice indivifo. 
codi , Herb. Rayan. vol. 12. p. 61. n. beo 
Care GRE Var. 8. Fi. Succica, n. 8 57. 
Carex gracilis. Flora Londin—& Withering, 1053. 
Maio. 
Radix perennis, repens. Folia angufta, amcené viridia, erecta, 
apicibus pendulis, marginibus carinaque afperis, culmo breviora. 
Culmus altitudine mirè variat, pro folo & fitu, trientalis, pedalis, 
bipedalis & ultra, triqueter, angulis acutiffimis, afperis, fub inflo- 
refcentià fepiüs cernuus. Spice maícule duæ, raró tres; fœmineæ 
tres; omnes filiformes, tenues. Spice mafcula reétiufculæ, 1—3 
unciales, fquamis oblongis, obtufis, nigris, nervo dorfali viridi, in- 
feriores breviores. Spice foeminezx fubfeffiles (eft ubi inferior una 
` aut altera breviter pedunculata), fub inflorefcentià nutantes f. re- 
curve, maturiores erecta, floribus terminalibus fæpè maículis, & 
Dda inde 
