346 MACKENZIE: NoTEs ON CAREX—XIII 
2. CONCERNING CAREX MURICATA L. 
The original description of Carex muricata L. (Sp. Pl. 974. 
1753) is as follows: 
muricata. 8. CAREX spiculis subovatis sessilibus remotis eee 
sulis acutis sepa ey tibus spinosis. Fi. 
752. Gmel. s 8 
Carex spica sending ‘ric compactis obscure alternis, 
culmo nudo compresso. Gvett. stamp . 149. 
Carex nemorosa, fibrosa rade, angustifolia minima, caule 
exquisite triangulari, spica brevi interrupta. Much, 
. 3- 
gen. 69. t. 
Gramen Cyperoides le minimum, spica divulsa acu- 
leata. Scheuch. gram. 485. 
Gramen nemorosum, COR whee asperis. Bauh. pin. 7. 
Ss BAST Bs 12. f. 2 
Habitat in boca nies hice Y. 
It will be noted that the first reference by Linnaeus is to the 
Flora Suecica, and it is the only reference to his own works. 
There the Linnaean description is nearly the same as in the 
Species Plantarum, but there is additional information given. 
The full description (Fl. Suec. 272. 1745) is as follows: 
752. CAREX spiculis subovatis sessilibus distinctis androgynis, capsulis 
acutis divergentibus aculeatis 
Carex es fibrosa satel ssmouilolea — caule exquisite 
angulari, spica brevi interrupta. Mich. gen. 69. t. 33. f. 11, 12. 
a spicis brevibus echinatis sessilibus datiaitie’ Hall. helv. 245. 
Scirpoides, spica laxa, minus. ont. gram. 17. 
Gramen cyperoides spicatum minimum, spica divulsa aculeata. Raj. hist. 
1298. Scheuch. hist. 485. t. 11. f. 3. 
eee nemorosum, spicis ag ise asperis. Bauh. pin. 7. theatr. 100. 
S. hist. 3. p. 244. f..8. t. 26. 
Suecis. Sau 
Habitat in udis nemorosis umbrosis praesertim Norlandiae, 
The botanists immediately following Linnaeus seem to have 
been quite unanimous in applying the name Carex muricata to 
what has in more recent times usually been called Carex stellulata 
Good. It is so illustrated in Flora Danica (pl. 284), and is so 
used by Leers (FI. Herborn. 196. 1775), by Hudson (FI. Angl. 
ed. 2, 406. 1778), and by Lightfoot (Fl. Scot. 2: 549. 1777): 
There never has been any doubt that the plant of wet places, 
which occurs especially in northern Sweden and which is un- 
doubtedly to be taken as the type of Carex muricata, is the same 
as Carex stellulata L. (see Wahlenb. Fl. Lapp. 231). 
