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patentes. Squamæ lanceolate, anguftz, acutiffime, pallidæ, fub 
inflorefcentià capfulà ferè duplo longiores, demum fub maturefcen- 
tia iifdem ferè duplo breviores. Ad omnem fpicam foemineam 
braétea foliacea, feffilis, culmo longior. Bra&ea tenuis fpicas maf- 
culas etiam fæpiùs fubtendit; hzc culmo plerumque brevior.— 
Cap/u/e laxiufculé difpofitz, patentes, glabra, flavefcentes, nervofæs 
ovato-oblongz, acuminate, & quafi roftratæ, ore bifido, Filamenta 
utin czteris. $7955 ftigmatibus tribus. 
Obf. Capfulam C. dcpauperate refert, at fpicis foemineis oblongis 
multifiorts, & mafculis CMT diftinétiffima. 
Linnaus failed no where fo much as in defcribing his C. veficaria 
He makes this his firft variety, C. /y/vatica his fecond, and C. am- 
pullacea his third. Amidft fo much confufion, it, was {carcely 
poffible to find any union of opinion amongit the feveral authors 
who afterwards treated of the fame fubject. It was plainly to be 
feen that they were diftinét fpecies—the difficulty lay in deter- 
mining which was the original, and which the variety. Hence Mr. 
Hudfon (to whom we muft all be ever indebted, as being the firft 
author of a Linnean arrangement of the Britifh plants), and Mr. 
Lightfoot, judged ampullacea to be the original, and under that im- 
. preffion named this inflata. We are at length happily correéted 
as to thefe doubts by the herbarium of Linnæus, wherein this 
plant is named veficaria. Its yellow hue, narrow fhort Ícales, and 
inflated fmooth conic capfules, point it out beyond all danger 
of miftake. 
Scheuchzer gives a long defcription of this plant, p. 470. 
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