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wit'll fome oilier fpecies, This in its younger Rate is very 
like tlie young fpecimens of recurva, but it is at once dif- 
tinguiftied by the (heath. In panicea the lowermoft 
(heath is full half the length of the peduncle, in recurva 
about one quarter only. Found in moifl meadows and 
paftures ; floweringdn May arid June. Mr. Woodward 
has obferved a variety, with a fingle fpike, about (ix 
inches long, with barren flowers towards the end, and 
capfules below refemblitrg tbofe of the other; the lower 
ones diftant ; the calyx running out; into a fubnlate ex¬ 
panding floral leaf at the bafe of each. This variety is 
mentioned by Leers; and alfo another, with a third fe¬ 
male fpike from the bafe of the culm, on a very lung pe¬ 
duncle. 
36. Carex folliculata : fpikes terminal, peduncled, 
male and female ; capfules tubulated, the length or the 
fpike. Culm three-cornered, two feet lm h, clothed with 
very narrow leaves. Obferved in Canada, by Kalin. 
37. Carex pfeudoev penis. or bafiard fedge:, flieaths 
fcarcely any ; female fpikes cylindrical, peduncled, pen¬ 
dulous, capfules avvned and beaked, fomewhat divaricate. 
Stems from eighteen inches to three feet in height, leafy 
below, naked above, three-cornered, edged with fliarp 
teeth, with a jo.nt near the top. The having peduncles 
in pairs from eacli joint of the culm is too uncertain a 
mark to place any dependance upon it. The circum- 
ftaneesof its having no (heaths, or very minute ones, and 
capfules nearly divaricate, and ending in a long point, are 
better maiks. The intermediate peduncles are not un- 
frequenlly found doubled. Grows in moifl woods, and 
on the (ides of ditches ; flowering in June. 
38. Carex caefpitofa, or tm fy ledge : ftyles two, fpikes 
ful'feflile, fubcylindric, obtufe, leaves ereft, foftilh. 
Tliis is eafily diftingniflied from th.e oth.er fpecies by its 
long narrow leaves, of a pleafant green, in fuller tufts 
than in any of the reft. It fills up bogs by its large tufts 
or haflocks; and, that it may accomplifh this the better, 
cattle do not cat it. Grows in marflies and rnoifl: woods, 
flowering in May. 
39. Carex diflans, or diflant-flowering fedge: fpikes 
very remote, bradte Iheathing the peduncle, capfules 
angular, mucronate. Stems nine to eighteen inches high, 
fometimes two feef, or even a yard; leafy, very obfeurely 
three-cornered. The remarkable difiance at which the 
female fpikes are placed from each other, is a diftindtion 
too obvious to admit of any doubt, [t is found in marflies, 
efpeciully falt-marfiies ; and ufually flowers in May and 
June. Mr. Curtis obfewes that this fpecies is fubjeft to 
very great variations : and Mr. Relhan mentions a va¬ 
riety with androgynous fpikes, and the lower fometimes 
.male. 
40. Carex japonica: fpikes monoeesus, peduncled, 
ereft ; females peduncled, ovate; male terminal, linear. 
Culm leafy, three-cornered, ereifi, weak, fmooth, a fpan 
high. 
V. Spikes male and female diftindt; males feveral. 
41. Carex acuta, or fliarp fedge: male fpikes many, fe¬ 
male lubfeflile ; capfules bluntifli. This very variable 
plant, in diy meadows, is an inch high, but in watery 
fituations ot'en rites to tlie height of tnree feet. 
42. Carex vefle .ria, or bhdder fedge: male fpikes 
linear; female fpikes oblong, fpreading"; capfules inflat¬ 
ed, oblong, acuminate-beaked, fpreading. Stem three- 
cornered, leafy, finely ferrate at the edges ; leaves two 
lines bioad, finely ferrate, bright green. This is the 
vcjica'ia of the Lnmaean Herbarium: its yellow hue, nar¬ 
row (hort feales, and in fluted fmooth conic capfules, point 
it out beyond all danger of miftake. Scheuchzer gives a 
long defeription of it. It is found in bogs and marflies ; 
and flowers in May. 
43. Carex hirta, or hairy fedge : hairy, all the fpikes 
oblong ; females remote, fheathed, capfules hairy. Leaves 
on the outfide, and their flieaths white-villofe. The 
thick down which covers the leaves, and particularly the 
flieaths and capfules, keep this fpecies difiiinft from all 
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others. It occurs, however, with fmooth flieaths in wa¬ 
tery places. If grows in moifl meadows, watery places', 
and marflies; flowering in May and June. 
44. Carex pumila, or dwarf (edge : male fpikes two, 
terminal, feflile ; females two, peduncled, oblong, eredb. 
Culm very liioi t, indeed fcarcely any; leaves linear, at¬ 
tenuated, convolute, fmooth. Scarcely to be diflin- 
gciillied by its characters from carex veflca’ia, yet plainly 
d fierent in having no (lent, io that tlie fpikes are but juft 
railed above the fuvface ; whereas in that it is very long. 
VI. 45 Carex pauciflora, or few-flowering fedge : fpike 
Ample, androgynous, female flowers, two or three, re- 
iiiorifh, fpreading, one male flower, fometimes two in 
the upper part. Stem four inches high, oblcurcly three- 
cornered, fmooth, flriated, with two fmooth grafs-like' 
leaves ; the uppermoft longeft, but generally ihorter than 
the (iein. Dr. Goodenough ebferves, that all the andro-- 
gynous fpecies except tins have their fligma bifid; and 
that the reft of the genus, except three or four, have it 
trifid. According to Hudfon, the radical leaves are few, 
enfiform, pointed, naked. Spike terminating, upright, 
w ith two or three brown barren flowers, and five or fix 
greenifh fertile ones. Native of Scotland in a boggy foil ; 
alfo of »he coaft of Labradore. 
46. Carex hainata, or hooked fedge: fpike fimple^ 
androgynous, linear, male at top ; females awned, awns 
booked at the tip, and equal. Native of Jamaica and 
New Zealand. 
47. Carex rupeflris : fpike Ample, androgynous, ob¬ 
long, with male flowers in tlie upper part ; female glumes 
aw ned. Culm fcarcely four inches high, naked, three- 
cornered, twice as high as the leaves. 
48. Carex bellardi : i) ike one, androgynous, ftrigofe, 
culm round, leaves capillary. Front a brown fibrous 
root antes a tuft of many culms ; leaves convoluted, ftriat- 
ed, fomewhat curved, about equal t;> the cuim, which is 
lefs than a fhort fpan in height, flnared, and fomewhat 
curved. Villars has figured a ipecies, and described it at 
length, which he fufpects may poflihly be the fame with 
this. It has a (ingle linear fpike, and, what is remarkable, 
the flow'ers are hermaphrodite ; the feed is half naked ; 
the leaves and culms are bnftle-fliaped 
49. Carex curvula : fpike one, glumes awned ; culm 
and leaves hard, and a little curved. This fpecies forms 
little tufts competed of hard round leaves, fomewhat >el- 
lovvifb, refembling thole of ruflies, differing little from 
the culm, and about the fame length, from three to lix 
inches. It has its name curvula , from the leaves and 
culms being curved a little to one Side. When the fpike 
is old, the (pikelets feparate and hang loole, fo that in 
this ftage of its growth the fpike has the appearance of 
being compound. Native of the Alps of Swiflerland, 
Dauplune, and Piedmont. 
50. Carex foetida, or (linking fedge : fpike conglome¬ 
rate brown ; (linking. This plant is fetid both dry and 
green; tlie root is black, hard, creeping and covered :th 
feales. Native of Swiflerland, Dauphine, and Piedmont, 
51. Carex pfyllophora: fpike Ample, androgynous, 
male at top ; capiules reflex, feeds cviindric. 52. Carex 
leucogldiejiin : fpike Ample, androgynous, male at cop;, 
capiules reflex ; ieeds three-fided. Natives of Sweden 
and Germany. 
53. Carex uncinata : fpike Ample, androgynous, linear, 
male at top, aw ns of the females hooked, males awnlefs. 
This is the handfomeft fpecies of the genus; the (pikeis 
narrowed: with the female flowers below coin'd n ing 
two-thirds of the fpike, tiie glumes awned, the awn bent 
back above the middle, and thickened at the joint; the 
male flowers above, with no awns to the glumes: Small 
fpikelets fometimes hang down at the (ide, but perhaps 
they are barren. It is a native of New Zealand. 
34. Carex cyperoides : head terminating roundifli ; 
flowers quite Ample, fubnlate, involucre long. The 
flowers in this fpecies are abfolutcly Ample, which is a 
Angularity in this genus; they are pcdicelled, and grow 
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