

TRIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Carexl 81 



shaped. Little spikes 5 or 6, sitting, alternate, tiled, reddish 

 brown. Involucrum 1 leaf, acute, as long as the spike, not 

 quickly decaying. Husk of 1 flower and 2 valves. Valves 

 upright, oblong, concave, permanent. Blast. Petals 6, spear, 

 shaped, sharp, skinny ; half as long as the husk. Stam. Fila- 

 ments 3, hair-like; shorter than the blossom. Anthers oblong, 

 upright, yellow. Put* Goxmtii egg-shaped, 3-comered. Style 

 very short* Summits 3, hair-like. Seed single, 3-cornered, 



tapering to a point. Hudson. Colour of rusty iron. Straw 

 nearly round. Lightfoot. 



Scb. compressus var. Lightf. Tawny rush-grass. This has 

 often been described for the S. ferrugineus, which I believe has 

 never been found in Britain. Dr. Smith. — Marshes, in the Isles 

 of Skye and Mull, and near Glasgow. lb. * . P, July. 



S. Straw leafy, nearly 3-cornered: flowers in bundles: al'bus« 



leaves like bristles. 



Dicks, h. s.-Gies 29-FI. dan. 32Q-H. ox. viii. p. 39*-Pluk. 



34. \l-Scbeucb. 11. ll-Mich. Cyperella I. 



Flowers at first white, but turning tawny. Mich. Leaves 

 slightly channelled. Huds. Stam. 2, rarely 3. St, 



White -flowered Rush-grass. Marshes. [A bog near Hey don, 

 Norf. Woodward. — Blakeley, near Manchester. Mr. Caley. 

 Birmingham Heath. New Forest.] P. July. Sept. 



CAHEX. Catkins tiled : Cat. 1 leaf: Bkss. none: 



Female florets on the same plant with the 

 male. Capsule inflated ; entire or 2-toothed 

 at the end. Summits 2, or 3. Seed 1, 3-cor- 



nered, within the nectary (or capsule.) 



* 



It is well known that this numerous and difficult Genus was lcf> 

 successfully laboured by Linn, than many other parts of his system, 

 Which has been the occasion of great confusion in succeeding writers, but 

 this deficiency, so far as it regards the British species of Carex, is now amply 

 supplied by the industry and accuracy of the Rev. Dr. Goodenough, 

 whose very judicious tract published in the 2d vol. of Transactions of the 

 Linncean Society, has enabled me to present to the English botanist a 

 new set of specific characters, and more ample, as well as in many in- 

 stances more accurate descriptions, than could otherwise have been given ; 

 besides the removal of many existing doubts and many established errors. 

 The species being very numerous, their investigation will be facilitated 

 by giving the specific characters altogether, as Dr. Goodenough has done. 

 The annexed numbers will direct the reader to the descriptions more at 

 large, the references to figures, &c. 1 must further add, that it is not only 

 to Dr. Goodenou^h's paper, mentioned above, that myself and my readers 

 are indebted for the improved state of this Genus, but also to his private 

 communications of specimens and observations, and to the trouble he 

 has taken in looking over the references to figures and pointing out tuch 

 *s he thought erroneous. 



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