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and remota., a?, having it entire ; but this is not conftunt. I be- 

 lieve all Carices difpofe of their feeds by the opening of the point of 

 their capfule. This opening is obfervablc in feme very early, in 

 others not till quite old. In the former, the capfule is defcribcd as 

 opening ; in the latter, becaufc it is not feen but in very advanced 

 age, it is mentioned as clofcd. 



When I inferted C.fuha as a diftinil fpccies, I did it in confc- 

 quencc ot a variety of fpecimens fcnt me by my friend Mr. Wil- 

 liams; all of which being nearly the fame as that reprcfented in the 

 figure given in my former paper, and entirely correfponding with 

 my foreign fpecimens, all of the fame growth and form, I con- 

 cluded that I had nothing further todifcover. Mr. Williams has 

 fmce that fent me fpecimens of more forward growth, which prove 

 it to be a variety of C. jiava. In the figure of my former paper, it 

 is reprcfented with three female fpikes ; it very feldom has more than 

 two. I would wifli therefore to correal: the article of C. fulva, ajad 

 make it a variety of C. Jiava. 



C^ Jiava — Van ,/?, fpicis fcemineis duabus. 



In my former paper, p. 209, I fpoke very indeterminately about a 

 Carex given me by the late Rev. Mr. Lightfoot. All the fpikes in 

 thofe fpecimens being androgynous, I imagined them to be axillaris .- 

 however, my friend Mr. Pitchford of Norwich has lately fent me 

 fpecimens of more complete growth, and I am now convinced that 

 they belong to C. extenfa. Mr. Pitchford acquaints me, that they 

 were found by the Rev. Mr. Bryant, near Cley, in Norfolk, in very 

 dry fandy ground. He tells me, that Mr. Bryant fent fpecimens to 

 Mr. Lightfoot ; moft probably, therefore, thofe which I received 

 from him were fent him by Mr. Bryant. I underftood at the time, 

 that Mr. Lightfoot had found them in Scotland; but as I had no 

 intention of writing upon the fubjedt, it is very poffible that I was 



not 



