270 Dr. Smith'j Defcriptions of Jive new Biitt/J} Species ofCarex. 



vix mucronulatis, ferrngineo-fufcis, carina late virenti. FrtiBm 

 longitudine circiter glumarum, dense imbricati, fubrotundi, parum 

 comprefTi, vix triquetri, virides, tomento denfiflimo, brevi, albido, 

 demum aureo, undique veftiti. Semen albidura, obfolete trique- 

 trum. 



Dr. Goodenough has fhown that the C. tomeniofa of Lightfoot 

 and Hudfon is the jiUfonnh of Linnaeus. I have now the pleafure 

 of giving the real tomentofa a place in the Flora Britannica, on the 

 authority of wild fpecimens gathered in Wiltfliire laft fummer, by 

 my friend Mr. Teefdale, F.L. S. Thofe in Mr. Dickfon's Dried 

 Plants, n. 43, were all fent from Switzerland. It is mod akin to 

 pracox and pilulifera, (both which have the fruit in fome degree 

 pubefcent,) but is a much larger fpecies, and if the fpecific charac- 

 ter be attended to, cannot be confounded with any other. The red 

 •vagina; of the radical leave?, as in C digitata, are very ftriking at 

 firft fight. 



■:';:■**!!:- Spiels fexu difilnElls : ma/culls plurlbus, 



4. Carex Micheliana. 

 Blunt-fruited Black Carex. 



C. fpicis ere6lis cylindricis : foemineis pedunculatis, glumis omnibus 

 obtufis muticis, fruftibus obovatis obtufifTimis. 



Cyperoides foliis caryophylleis, caule exquifite triangulari, fpicis 

 habitioribus, fquamis curtis obtuse mucronatis, capfulis turbina- 

 tis brevibus confertis. Mich. Gen. 62. /. 32. yi 12. 



In aquofis. Fl. Maio? 



Near Aberdeen. Prof. Beattle, 



Culmu§ 



