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XXII. On a Species 9/ Carex allied to C. saxatilis, Linn. 

 By Francis BoojprffM.D., F.L.S. 8$c. %c. 



Read December 19th, 1843. 



IN 1832 a Carex was found in Glen Pbee, Clova, by the party accompanying 

 Dr. Graham of Edinburgh upon his annual botanical excursion to the High- 

 lands of Scotland, which has been considered as a form of C. saxatilis, Linn. 

 (C. pulla, Good.), and to which my attention was lately called by Mr. 

 W. Wilson of Warrington, who in a letter of December 4th says:—" It dif- 

 fers from C. saxatilis in having distinctly ribbed fruit, in being much taller, 

 and of a different colour." 



I was led by this particular allusion to the plant to examine it minutely, 

 and believing it to be a species, have named it after my excellent friend 

 Dr. Graham ; and I offer the following description of it, and the observa- 

 tions on C. saxatilis, Lina., which naturally arise out of the consideration of 

 a plant hitherto associated with it. 



Carex Grahami. 



iSpicis 4-5 cylindricis ferrugineis ; masculis 2 (rarius 1) gracilibus acutis: 

 foemineis 2-3 subremotis crassis obtusis inferioribus pcdunculatis evagi- 

 natis subnutantibus, stigmatibus 2, perigyniis oblongo-ovatis rostratis 

 bifurcatis inflatis nervosis suberectis ferrugineis (rarius stramineis) bad 

 pallidis squama ovata acuta fusca apice albida nervo pallido duplo lon- 

 gioribus. 

 Hab. Glen Phee, Clova, in Scotia. , 



Radix fibris lignosis, repens ? Culmus bipedalis, acute triqueter, striatus, superne scaber. 

 strictus, firmus, basi foliorum rudimentis purpureis, margine saepe filamentosis, foliisqtie 

 vestientibus tectus. Pars spicas gerens 5-4| pollices longa. Folia 2 lin. lata, cuhnu 

 breviora, striata, carinata, scabra. Bractea foliaceae, evaginatas, plana?, auriculis -J, 

 brevissimis, rotundatis, obtusis, ferrugineis, margine scariosis instructs, culmo pie- 



