CAREX BILIGULAR1S ? DC. 



Hab. Circa Tarraconem. 

 Carex binervis. Smith. 



Hab. Circa Olisiponem in paludibus Transtaganis. 

 Carex distans. Linn. 



Hab. A Barcinone ad Malacam. 

 Carex Extensa. Good. 



Hab. Circa Malacam. 

 Carex glauca. Scop. 



Hab. Inmonte Arabriga. 

 Carex gynobasis. Vill. 



Hab. In montosis circa Alcald de los Gazules. 

 Carex hispida. Schrank. 



C. echinata Desf. 



Hab. In agro Saguntino. 

 Carex riparia. Curt. 



Hab. Circa Tarraconem. 

 Carex vulpina. Linn. 



Hab. Circa Tarraconem, Eliberim, et alibi in Baetica. 

 Carex furva. 



C. humilis, caespitosa, glaberrima, radice fibrosa ; spicis 5 sessilibus, 

 in capitulum 3-lobum aggregatis , omnibus androgynis , basi ima 

 masculis ; squamis ellipiicis, acutiusculis, muticis; utriculis squama 

 longioribus , plano-convexis , ovato-oblongis , utrinque striatis , ad 

 angulos laevissimis ; stigmatibus 2. 



Hab. In jugis montium Eliberitanorum ad cacumen alterum 



el Picacho de la Veleta. 



Obs. This species is very distinct from all its congeners. Its size, 

 the number and the colour of its spikes, which are united, and the 

 disposition of the sexes, bring it near to G. Vahlii Schk. and to C. 

 parviflora C. A. Meyer, both of which however are distinguished from 

 it by their trifld styles and other changes of conformation. C. nigra 

 All. differs from it likewise by the number of its styles, and by its 

 four or five spikes , of which one or two of the inferior are bracteated, 

 and slightly pedicellated , whilst the upper is for the most part en- 

 tirely male. Nor can it be compared to any of the 2-styled species 

 unless it be to C. microstyla Gay. (in Gaud. Fl. Helv. 4, pag. 57, 

 tab. 1.) or to C. fcetida All. but both of Ihese are immediately re- 

 cognized by their many-spiked capitules , and by their very different 

 habit and loftier stature. C. microstyla recedes from it moreover by 

 its pale greenish capitnle, bracteated at the base, and by its ulri- 



