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BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 161 
Discovery of Carex paradoxa, WiLL. in Britain. 
We have the satisfaction of announcing this interesting 
Carex as an inhabitant of the British islands; fine specimens 
having been sent to us from Ireland, where the discovery 
was made by Mr. D. Moore, Curator of the Glasnevin Botanic 
Garden, who has already added other new and very interest- 
ing plants to the Flora of his native country. Along with 
the specimens, Mr. Moore has been so obliging as to com- 
Municate his very accurate observations, made from recent 
specimens, on this and its allied species C. paniculata, Linn., 
as well as from C. teretiuscula, Good. and which we here 
transcribe; 
CAREX PANICULATA, Linn. 
Roots densely tufted; stem striated, acutely angular; 
leaves broad, strongly striated; spike generally 3 to 4 inches 
long with diverging branches; fruit plano-convex, between 
deltoid and triangular, with a broad serrated margin extend- 
: ing from the middle to the bidentate beak, broad and subcor- 
date at the base, stipitate, striated on both surfaces; striæ 
Scarcely extending down the slender stipitate point of attach- 
ment ; scales ovate, acuminate, with broad membranaceous 
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CAREX PARADOXA, Willd. | 
Roots densely tufted; stem striated, long and slender, 
ghtly triangular, except where it approaches the panicle, 
and there only roughish; leaves long and narrow, slightly 
‘Striated ; spike 1-2 inches long; branches short, acuminate ; 
bracteas very small, setaceous ; fruit ovate-subrotund, gibbous 
on the inner face, with a long slender beak, slightly cloven, 
Hid edged with a narrow serrulated margin, base gradually 
lengthened out into a strong stipitate point of attachment, 
is! à continuation of: the convex surface, with sizong 
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