on the Britifo Species of Carex, 205 
in my opportunity. _ Linnæus evidently confounded two fpecies 
under the name acuta. As Michelius’s figure was faid by Lin- 
"neus to be an exact likenefs of his firft variety, and as there was 
no figure quoted to his fecond, Mr. Curtis, unable to reconcile this 
plant to Michelius’s figure, judged it to be a diftinét fpecies, (who 
would not have done the fame?) and called it gracilis accordingly. 
44 CAREX VESICARIA. 
C. fpicis mafculis linearibus ; feemineis oblongis patentibus, capfulis 
inflatis oblongis roftrato-acuminatis patentibus. 
Buddle, Hort. Sic. p. 29. n. 2. 
Gramen cyperoides majus præcox, fpicis turgidis teretibus flavefcen- 
tibus. H. Ox. In. 242. f.8. t. 12 f. 6. 
7 Suecia, n. O Po ich. n. - 895. Var. Be Leers, t. 16. 
f 2. TII. 
C. inflata. FL Angl. 412. Fl. Scot. 567. Withering, p. 1057. 
Fi. Dan. 647. 
Habitat in paluftribus. Maio. 
Radix repens, perennis. Folia pallidé virentia, culmum fub in- 
florefcentia fuperantia, marginibus carinaque afperis, angufta. 
Culmus bipedalis, erectus, triqueter, angulis acutiffimis afperis. 
Spice circiter tres mafculz, totidem foeminez. Spice mafculæ ter- 
minales, ereétæ, fuperior 1—2 uncialis, cæteræ breviores, lineares, 
fub-triquetræ ; fquamis oblongis, obtufiufculis, flavis, marginibus 
; apicem verfus albidis, nervo dorfal: viridi, obfoletiuículo. Spica 
fœmineæ oblongz, pedunculatæ (inferior pedunculo fatis longo, 
faperiores brevioribus), 1—2 unciales, ereétiufculæ; f. fub- 
patentes, 
