Dr. Smith'/ Defer iptions of five tieiv Briii/}j Species of Car ex. 269 



This fpecies appears to have been confounded with C. dijians ; and 

 from Lightfoot's dcfcription of the green angles of the fruit, I pre- 

 fume it to have been what he intended under that name. It is con- 

 fiderably larger than the real diJlans, the fpikes black intermixed 

 with green rather than yellowifti, and the female ones often 

 branched or compounded at their bafc. Its moft eflential and de- 

 cifive charadter however confifls in the two firong deep-green nerves 

 or ribs which run along each fide cf the fruit externally near the 

 edge. The ariUus is alfo broader and more comprefled than in 

 C. d'flans. 



3. Carex tomentofa. 

 Downy-fruited Carex. 



C. vaginis breviflimis, fpicis foemineis fubfeflilibus cylindraceis ob- 

 tufis, glumis ellipticis acutis, fru6libus tomentofis. 



Carex tomentofa. Limi. Mani. 123. Leers. 200. /. is- f /• ff^'l- 

 den. Car. Berol. 24. Dickf. Dr. PI. 43. 



In pratis rarlias. Fl. Junio. 



In meadows near Merfton Meafey, Wiltfhire. Mr. "Teefdale. 



Radix repens. Culmus pedalis, eredius, nudus, acutd triqueter, an- 

 gulis fuperne fcabris. Folia culmo breviora, ereita, plana, Isete 

 viridia, utrinque margineque fcabra. BraHeoe foliaceae, ere6to-pa- 

 tentes, culmum vix fuperantcs, vagina breviffmia, aut fere nulla. 

 Spica mafcula lanceolata, obtufiufcula, glumis lanceolatis, ferru- 

 gineo-fufcis, carina virenti, fuperioribus quandoque mucronulatis; 

 fcemines plerumque dua;, pariim remotcc, brcviflime pedunculatae, 

 cylindraceas, obtufa:, longitudine varije, glumis ellipt'ico-ovatis, 



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