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XVIL JlddUional ObfervaUom on the Brili/Jj Species of C drew By the 

 Rev. Samuel Gcode/iougb, LL. D. F. R. S. 7'r. L, S, 



Read January 6, 1795. 



IT was not to be expeded that, in treating on this fubje^l:, I could 

 at cnce colle6t every article of information necefTary to be men- 

 tioned, or that I could be aware of all the minute variations which 

 take place from foil, from fituation, and from climate, in fuch a 

 variable genus as Carex is. In my former paper * I endeavoured to 

 notice as many of thefe as I could without being troublefome froai 

 unreafonable minutenefs. 



Some general perplexities of this fort will prefent themfelves to 

 all accurate obfervers, — fuch as refpeft the length of the foliaceous 

 lra£ie<x^ which are fcarcely in any one fpecies abfolutely conftant — 

 the appearance of male flowers in the female fpikes — ■the pro- 

 portion of the peduncle of the female fpikes, which in fome fpecies 

 is for the moft part feflile, and yet at times is found of very confi- 

 derable length, as happens particularly in CJiava, — and the divifion 

 of the capfules at the fummit, which in many fpecies are for the 

 moft part clofed, and yet not unfrequently are found divided: — ail 

 thefe matters muft be fubmitted to the tafte and judgment of natu- 

 ralifts, who may be difpofed to ftudy the fubjeft with candour. 

 I have ftated axillaris- zs having the capfule divided at the fummit, 



? Linn. Tranf. vol. ii. p. 126. 



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