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rant fuch a ftep asthat; befides, the habit is altogether that of the 
androgynous ones. For although Leers fays he found the inter- 
mediate fpikelets purely male, yet in almoft all of them two or 
three female flowers are to be feen at the bafe; and thus in the fe- 
male fpiculæ, male flowers from 1—3 at the fummit. A few fpi- 
culz are truly androgynous. 
After all it muft be allowed, that intermedia and arenaria are very 
nearly allied. Notwithftanding the obfcurity thrown over thefe 
plants by the confufion arifing from wrong fynonyms and imper- 
fe& defcriptions, yet there is character enough peculiar to each. 
In intermedia, the root creeps deeply under ground, and in a very ir- 
regular manner. In arenaria, it creeps juft below the furface, and 
while the main fhoot runs in a ftraight line, fide-fhoots ftrike off at 
right angles; it makes a beautiful appearance by this means, form- 
ing, with the fhoots it fends up, parterres, &c. which become at once 
its ornament and diftinétion. In znfermedia the culm is erect, in 
arenaria incurved. In intermedia, the {pike (the terminal fpicula be- 
ing feminine) is obtufe: in arenaria (many of the terminal fpiculæ 
being almoft entirely male) it is acute. In intermedia, the capfule has 
its margin entire; in arezaría, it is marginated on each fide towards 
the apex with a broadifh membrane. : 
I have never met with the variety @ of Mr. Hudfon. I have 
obferved indeed, occafionally, fome of the fpikes with very few fpi- 
cule; but I never found any plant throwing up all its culms in 
pie with fo few fpiculæ as are reprefented i in Plukenet’s figure. 
Dr. Withering fuppoles this as to be a reprefentation of Mr. 
Hudfor? s C. brizoides. 
Leyfer can fcarcely bẹ fuppofed to know Mr. Hudfon’s C. difticha; 
for he fays, Nulla laudabilis figura bujus Caricis quantum novi extat, 
Marif. Hift. 3. £ 8. t. 12. f. 32. iHi quodammodo fimilis. See Ley/er’s 
Fi. Hal, C. difficha, 
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