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$. smaller, spike very compact. C. teretiuscula, E. B.t. 1065. 



HAB. Marshy places, occasionally j Bog Daldowie and at Kenmuir 5 

 Banks of the Clyde near New Kilpatrick. Revel rig-toll, Mr. Gre~ 

 mile. Forfar Loch, Mr. Arnott. Appin, Capt. Carmichael. |8. N. 

 Queensferry, Mr. T. Mackay. Marsh at the foot of Dundas hill, 

 Edinb., Mr. P. Neill. Banks of the Clyde, 2 miles beyond Hamil- 

 ton, Hopk. Marsh of Restenat, near Forfar and Pentland hills, 

 G. Don. Fl. June. }/ . 



Two to three feet high. Culms triangular, striated. Spike very brown, 

 shining. Bracteas small, subsetaceous. Future observations may 

 teach me otherwise ; but after a careful examination of numerous 

 specimens of C. panic, and C. teret., I can find no other difference 

 than what I have noticed above, and heartily concur with Wah- 

 lenberg in uniting them ; sensible that science suffers instead of 

 gaining by multiplying species on such slight grounds. 



ft Spikelets sterile at their base. 



12. C. stellulata (small stellated Carex), spikelets sterile at 

 their base 3 or 4 distant, fruit ovate much attenuated convexo- 

 plane acutangular divaricated rough at the margins. Lightf. 

 p. 549 (C. tnitricala). E. B. t. 806. 



HAB. Marshes in heathy places, frequent. Fl. May, June. 7/ . 



A span or a foot high. Leaves nearly as long as the culm. Distin- 

 guished by the few much beaked capsules, in small distant rounded 

 spikelets, which spread when ripe in every direction. 



13. C. curt a (white Carex), spikelets sterile at their base about 

 5 rather distant elliptical, bracteas very minute (except the 

 lower one), capsules broadly ovate acute convex on one side 

 and nearly plane on the other subobtusangular with 2 teeth at 

 the extremity. Lightf. p. 550 (C. canescens*). E. B. t. 1386. 



HAB. Bogs, but not common. In Isla, 2 miles from the sound, 

 Lightf. N. Queensferry; near Habbies How, Pentland hills j 

 and Uavelrig Bog, Maugh., &c. Fl. June. 11 . 



One foot high. Distinguished by its pale elliptical spikes, and imbri- 

 cating capsules. 



14. C. ovalis (oval-spiked Carex], spikelets sterile at the base 

 oval about 5 approximate, fruit as long as the cal. ovato- 

 acuminate convex on one side concave on the other with a 

 membranaceous margin bifid at the point. Lightf. p. 547 

 (C. leporina). E. B. t. 306. 



HAB. Bogs and marshy places, not unfrequent. Fl. June. I/ . 



Culms 1 foot high, triangular. Spike brownish green, shining. Cal. 

 glumes concealing the fruit. Bracteas small, uppermost ones re- 

 sembling the glumes. 



15. C. remota (remote Carex), spikelets sterile at the base 

 distant, fruit longer than the cal. oblongo-ovate acuminate 

 convexo-plane subacutangular obtuse at the margins the point 



a C. canssccns of Linn. Fl. Succ., according to Wahlenbcrg. 



