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265 X Da. GoonENOUGH's Obfervations 
the culm; neither are they, except the lowermoft, remote from 
each other. I do not obferve any male flowers in the axillary 
{pikes.. The fcales are oblong and acute, with a {trong nerve on 
the back, which forms an acute point. The capfules are oblong 
and acute, and flightly bifid at the point, and do not appear to be. 
quite fo long as the fcales. The {pikes are all folitary. 
It is diftinét from remota by its bifid capfule.—It feems different 
from axillaris by all the {pikes being folitary: but this laft circum- 
{tance has raifed a doubt in my mind, whether the fpecific cha- 
racter which I have given axillaris, be juft: in particular, it pre- 
vented me from calling it aggregata, under which title my very 
{kilful and accurate friend and fellow-labourer, Mr. Curtis, has 
fpoken of it. As he has not yet publithed his obfervations, I take 
the advantage of confulting my fears, viz. that in bleak and bar- 
ren expofures it produces its {pikes folitary and not aggregate; and 
give it the name of axillaris, a name by which poffibly it was 
known originally to L;zz«us, though, perhaps afterwards thinking 
it the fame as remota, he rejected it as a diftinct fpecies. 
My fpecimens are too fmall and too much damaged to enable me 
to fpeak, with certainty, whether it be ax/Zar;; or not. They are 
fpecimens of the whole plant from the crown of the roots, but 
not of the root itfelf: they appear to be from four to fix inches 
high. 
I have thus the honour of laying before the Linnean Society, 
my obfervations upon the Britifh fpecies of the genus Carex. I 
have purpofely gone no farther into initíatenofi: ier inveftigation 
than appeared to be neceffary toa fufficient knowledge of the objects 
themfelves. I am aware, however, that the more minutely objects 
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