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IX. Descriptions of some Species of Carex from North America. 

 By Edward Rudge, Esq. F.L.S. 



Read April 5, 1803. 

 1 have the honour to lay before the Linnean Society the de- 

 scription of five species of Carex from North America, which do 

 not appear to have been described in any botanical work extant. 

 The few specimens that have hitherto been received from that 

 quarter of the globe, show in almost every instance that there is 

 a striking dissimilarity between the American species of this 

 genus and those of European growth ; and if some American bo- 

 tanist would undertake accurately to investigate the former in 

 their different stages of growth, I have no doubt but many new 

 species Avould be added to this already numerous tribe. 



Carex ovata. 

 Carex spicis androgynis ovatis pendulis^capsulis ovatis acutis. 



Tab. IX. Fig. 1. 



Folia erecta, tenuia, marginibus aspera. 



Culmus erectus, triqueter, angulis acutis, asperis. 



Spicce androgynae quatuor vel quinque, dense imbricata?, pedun- 

 culatae, ovatae, pendulae; squamis ovatis, acutis, fuscis, capsu- 

 lam aequantibus (Fig. l.a.); bracteee ad basin pedunculorum 

 subamplexicaules. 



Capsula- ovatae, compressae, acuminatae, ore diviso (Fig. 1. b.). 



Sty/its stigmatibus tribus, glandulosis, crassiusculis. 



Habitat in Newfoundland. 



Carex 



