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(RHYNCHOSPO'RA.* Bloss. none. Spike of few flowers. 
Cal. tiled all round ; with empty external scales. Seed 
beaked with the permanent base of the style. 
It. al'ba. Heads abrupt : stamens two : leaves tapering: bristles at 
the base of the seed numerous. Sm. E.) 
Dicks. H. S. —(j E. Bot. 985. E.)— Gies. 29— FI. Dan. 320.— H. Ox. viii. 9. 39. 
— Pluk. 34. 11— Scheuch. 11. 11— Mich. Cyperella 1. 
Plant smooth and slender, six to twelve inches high. Straw triangular. 
Spikes slender, white when fresh, changing to tawny. Summits two. 
Seed with a flat beak one third its own length, and about ten bristles 
from the receptacle rising above it. 
White Beak-rush. R. alba. Vahl. Br. Eng. FI. Schoenus albus. Linn. 
With. Willd. Hook. FI. Brit. Turfy bogs and marshes. A bog near 
Haydon, Norfolk. Woodward. Blakeley, near Manchester. Mr. Caley. 
New Forest. (Ampthill moor, &c. Bedfordshire. Abbot. Bullmarsh 
heath, Berkshire. Mr. Rudge. Bot. Guide. Bogs west of Dolbadarn 
Castle; and boggy fields between Plasnewydd in Rhyl and Rhyd marsh, 
near Rhyddlan. Mr. Griffith. On Wareham, Canford, and Poole heaths. 
Pulteney. On the heath at Preswick Carr, Northumberland ; on Beam¬ 
ish moor, Durham. Mr. Winch. E.) P. July—Sept. 
(R. FUS f CA. Heads ovate-oblong: stamens three: leaves thread-shaped : 
three bristles at the base of the seed. Sm. E.) 
E. Bot. 1575— FI. Dan. 1562— H. Ox. viii. 11. 40. 
Much resembling R. alba , but smaller, and distinguished by the little 
spikes being brown, growing in clusters, and not white and flat-topped. 
Linn. (The plumpness of the spikes remarkable. Leaves nearly filiform, 
channelled. Stem shorter than in the preceding. 
Brown Beak-rush. Schoenus fuscus. Linn. With, to Ed. 7. S. albus, (3. 
FI. Brit. R. alba , (3. Vahl. Br. R.fusca. Sm. Eng. FI. E.) Turfy bogs, 
rare. Brighstean moss, and other mosses about Kendal. Mr. Gough. 
(On Cromlyn bog, near Swansea. Mr. E. Forster. Near Killarney. Mr. 
Mackay. Originally gathered by the Rev. Mr. Lightfoot near the Isle 
of Purbeck. Eng. FI. E.) P. June. 
CA'REX.f Barr . FI. Catkin imbricated. Cal. of one scale. 
Bloss. none. Fert. FI. Catkin imbricated. Cal. of one 
scale. Bloss . none. Stigmas two or three. Seed in¬ 
vested with an inflated tunic. E.J) 
* (From pvyxpg, a beak, and anopot, seed ; the permanent base of the style forming 
a beak to the seed. E.) 
f (Possibly from xetpu), abscindo, in allusion to the sharp edges of the stems, and the 
Virgilian character. Georg. 3. E.) 
+ The great confusion in which this difficult Genus has too long been involved so far 
as regards the British species, is now removed by the industry and accuracy of the Rev. 
Dr .Goodenough, 13p. of Carlisle, whose judicious dissertation published in Linn. Tr. v. ii. 
has enabled me to present new specific characters, and more ample, in many instances 
more accurate, descriptions, than could otherwise have been given; besides the removal 
of many doubts and errors. The species being very numerous, their investigation will 
be facilitated by giving the characters in immediate comparison. The annexed numbers 
will direct the reader to the descriptions more at large, the references to figures, he. It 
is not only to Dr. Goodenough’s paper, mentioned above, that we are indebted for the 
