266 Dr. Smi th'j De/cri/iiofis of five tiew BritiJIj Species of Car ex. 



* Spied unicdfimplici. 



I. Carex Davalliana. 

 Prickly feparate-headed Carex. 



C. fpica fimplici dioica, fru6libus lanceolato-triquetris nervofis pa- 



tenti-deflexis : angulis apice fcabris. 

 Carex dioica. Wilden. Car. Berol. 16, ex defer. 

 C. n. 1350. Hall. Hjft. v. 2. 182. 

 Gramen cyperoides, fpica fimplici cafla. Schcuchz. Jgr. 497. /. 11, 



y^ 9, 10 ; fynonymis omnino erroneis. 



In uliginofis. Fl. Maio, Junio. 



Difcovered in marlTiy ground in Mearns-iliire, North Britain, by 

 Profeflbr James Beattie jun. of Aberdeen. 



Radix fibrofa, casfpitofa. Cultn't fimpliciffimi, triquetri, fcabriufculi, 

 quandoque fcaberrimi, monoftachyi, bafi foliofi, parum altiores 

 quam in C. dioica vera. Folia fetacea, triquetra, culmo triplo 

 breviora. Spiccc dioicae, lineares, eredlae, multiflorx, vix unciales, 

 glumis fufcis, carinatis, acutis, margine fcariofis. Stamina capil- 

 laria, exferta, antheris flavis, linearibus. FruSius lanceolato-^ 

 triquetri, nee gibbi, roftrati, undique nervofi, angulis apice fcabris, 

 ore fcariofo, integro, demum deflexo-patentes, acuminati, unde 

 fpicas feminifera: fquarrofae fiunt. 



Specimens of this Carex were fent to me from Switzerland, as 



well as to Dr. Goodenough, (fee his poftfcript at the end of our 



2J volume,) by my much lamented friend the late Mr. Davall, who 



7 difcovered 



