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TRIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Carex. 



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( 1 ) Spike single > not branched. 



dioi'ca, 1 . C. Spike simple ; edges of the capsuie finely serrated ; 



male and female florets on different plants, 



E. hot. 543-^7. dan. 36g~H. ox. via, 12. 22, Male plant. 

 ib. 36, female. -Mic h. 32. 1 and 2. M. and F. plant; but 

 the latter erroneously represented with 3 summits instead 

 of 2 only. 



Root creeping. Leaves like bristles, somewhat 3-cornered : 

 channelled on the inside, upright smooth, nearly as tall as the 

 fruit-stalk. Straw 4? to H> inches high; 3-cornered, smooth. 

 M. spike | to 1 inch : Fern, shorter. Caps, expanding, egg. 

 shaped, acute. Summits 2. Goodenough, L. Tr. ii. 140. Seeds 

 a little serrated. Straw at bottom light brown ; but in the 

 C. capitata the seeds are entire, and the straw black at the bot* 

 torn ; so that s|)outdThe C. capitata at length prove to be a British 

 plant they may be distinguished by these circumstances. Mr, 

 Afzeuus. 



Var. 2* Male 



Mag. Ji 



Found amongst the other plants on Hinton and Teversham 

 Moors near Cambridge. C, capitata of Hudson, not of Linn. 

 Relhan. 



SON. 



Small Ser. Turf bogs. [Polam near Darlington ♦ Mr 

 — Meadows, Marham, Norfolk. Mr. Crowe.— 



Suffolk, Mr. Woqdw 



Boggy 



June, J 



pulica'ris. 2. C. Spike simple, with M, and F. florets: M. flowers 



uppermost : capsules diverging, bent back, tapering 

 at each end. 



Leers 14. \~H. ox. viii, 12. 2\~Micb. 33. 1-P/ui. 34. JO 

 FL dan. 166.* 



Straw cylindrical, flattish on one side. Barren flowers fall- 

 ing off when out of blossom. Capsules pointed, when bent back 

 give the straw the appearance of a different plant, bearing no 

 small resemblance to a harpoon. Linn. Root fibrous ; this cir* 





Scheuchz. ii. 9. jo. has been referred to this species, and by 

 Wnnaeus to his C dioica, but Dr. Goodenough informs me Scheuchzers 

 plant is not a native of Britain, observing, that it is more like pulicaris 

 than dioica, but distinct from both ; from dioica by the divaricated cap- 

 sule, from pulicaris by the capsule being divaricated, not reflected, and 



by being egg-shaped at the base, and not tapering from the middle to each 



cad. 



