on the Britÿfh Species of Carex. 209 
Habitat ; in pratis & des humidis, in cade & pe ms 
| Maio, Junio. 
Radix valdé repens, perennis. Félia ferè femunciam lata, villofa,. 
ad oras carinafque hifpida, culmo fub-breviora. Culmus erectus, 
triqueter, angulis acutiffimis, afperis. Spice duæ mafculæ, tres. 
foœmineæ—Spicæm afculæ oblongæ, fub-unciales, erecte; fquamis 
ovatis, fufcis, margine albo, nervo dorfali viridi, pilofis, obtufis, & 
ex nervo prominenti breviffimé mucronatis. Spice fœmineæ {æ- 
pits valdé remote, oblongæ, erecta, inferiores longiüs peduncu- 
latz; fquamis villofis, ovatis, longiüs mucronato-acuminatis, mar- 
gine albido, nervo doríali viridi. Ad ominem fpicam foemineam 
bra&ea foliacea, quz ad fpicas inferiores ferè dimidium pedunculi 
occupat, vaginà hinc Janato-villoia. —Porro bractea una aut altera. 
ee ge ed | plate: n line nv hier alitor, 
roftro bifido, fquamis pauló longiores. Filamenta tria, antheris for 
didiufculé flavis. . S7y/us ftigmatibus tribus. 
The thick down which covers thie leaves, and” particularly the 
vaginæ and capfules of this fpecies, keeps it moft manifeftly dif-. 
tin& from all others. 
I have fpecimens of a Carex, given me by Mr. Lighifoot, which: 
he informed me he met with in Scotland; it is an androgynous 
fpecies, and nearly related to axillaris, if not the very fame. The 
terminal fpike is for the moft part, but not altogether, male; a 
few female flowers appearing at the bafe. The fpikes are 
feffile in the axillæ of flender braétex, which are longer than 
Von, Il. ' Ee the. 
