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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Goodenough, Additional observations on the British species of Carex. CUL-DAR205.10.45. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 5.2023. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR205.10 contains notes on variation and varieties. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin.

Samuel Goodenough. 1797. Additional observations on the British species of Carex. Transactions of the Linnean Society 3: 76-9.

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Linn: Trans. 3/ p. 76. Goodenough on Carex corrections on former paper

"the foliaceous bracteæ are scarcely in any one species constant" the peduncle of the female spikes is for the most part sessile, but sometimes is of considerable length, as in C. flava— the division of the capsules at the summit most part coloured, yet not unfrequently divided." "I have ~~said~~ stated as specific character, that C. axillaris has capsule divided & C. remota entire; but in neither is this constant.— There are difficulties in the classification of this genus. —

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