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Its long vagina, and the fruit being not inflated but filled with the 

 large feed, diftinguifli it from ve/icaria and amptclbcea. It agrees 

 in many particulars with, fyhaiica 3.ndJlrigofa, but diff'ers in having 

 more than one male fpike, as well as much thicker and denfer fe- 

 male ones. 



I know of no figure of this fpecies, nor of C. binervis; but as I hope 

 to procure frefh fpecimens for publication in EngliJIj Botany^ I de- 

 cline offering any delineation of dried ones. A figure of a Carex, in 

 order to be ufeful, (hould exhibit the fru£lification in various ftates, 

 and exprefs particularly the form, furface, and nerves of the arillus^ 

 and the ftiape of the feed. 



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