54^4 MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. 



We found this new fpecies of Carex in one place 

 only, VIZ. In a boggy ioil, about half-way up 

 the mountain of Goatjield, in the illc of Jrrau, 

 near a place wliere peat is dug, in the afcent 

 iVom Brcd'iuuk. caftle. Mr. Banks has found the 

 lanic on the coafi; of Labrndore. %. VI. 



The Italk. is at a medium four inches high, ob 

 Icurely triangular, fmooth, llriated, and fur- 

 niftied commonly wiih two fniooth, grafs like 

 leaves, the uppermoft of which is longeft, but 

 generally ilnorter than the llalk. I'he fpike is 

 at firfl clofe, and about i-Sth of an inch long, 

 confuting of oi)ly one pale brown male flower 

 at the top, and rometimcs two : but more com- 

 monly three greeniili, long- acute female ones 

 underneath. The m.ale after flowerino; is deci- 

 duous, and the capfules becon:ie patent and 

 nearly horizontal. Tlie ftyle has fometinics two, 

 but coniracnly uw^c Jii^maia. 



incur V a 4. 



** Spicis androgynis. 



CAREX fpica conica, c. fpiculis congeftis andro- 

 gynis fefiiiibus compofita, involucro nullo, cul- 

 mo incurvo. [yid. Jig. noft.) 



Curved Carex. Anglis. 



Ihis new fpecies of Carex was communicated, by 

 Dr. Hope^ the prefent ingenious profeflbr of bo- 

 tany in Edinburgh. It was difcovered in deep 

 loofe fea-fand, at the mouth of the water of 

 Naver, and near Skelherry^ in 'Dunrojnejs^ in 



Shetland, if. VIL 



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