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MONOGYNIA. Carcx 



divi 



sa. 



12. C. Spike egg-shaped, somewhat doubly compound : 



floral -leaf upright : spikets rather crowded: cap- 

 sules laid close : root creeping. 



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Linn* Tr. ii. 1<). Q-fBarr. 114. 2, but the leave* should have 

 been upright and straight-Park* 1267* 11* the root well 



expressed- Dr. Goode: 



H.) 



Root thick, creeping very much. Spikets egg-shaped, almost 

 in contact, upright, terminating florets male. Scales longer than 

 the capsules. Caps, pressed close to the straw, a little bordered 

 towards the end. Goodenough. Leaves narrow, frequently 

 longer than the straw. Straw if to 2 feet high, triangular. 

 Spinets 5 or (i, the lower rather distant, the upper crowded and 

 expanding Floral-leaf often confiderably longer than the spike, 

 and growing in a line with the stem, gives the plant the appear- 

 ance of a rush. Scales oval spear-shaped, shrivelling and fallin 

 off as the spike ripens. Style longer than the capsule, divide 

 one-third of the way into 2 summits, bent back. Capsules whitish, 

 oval, pointed at both ends, very indistinctly triangular, or 

 rather convex on one side, and fiat on the inner. Woodward. 



Marshes 



Marsh *W. Salt 

 Colchester, Essex. R. Syn. 

 Norwich and Yarmouth, 



M 



ows near Hithe, and 



—[Near Oakley Bridge, between 

 Mr. Crows. — Cley, Norfolk, next 



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Hiuhca'ta. 13. C. Spike oblong, somewhat doubly compound: spikets 



not crowded : capsules diverging, cloven at the end : 



root fibrous. 



M 



{Al 



and Pari. I26Y* 8* Dr. Goodenough.) 



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Straw 3-cornered, angles acute, rough. Spike compound, 

 often doubly so. Spikets about 10, the lower ones distant, upper 

 ones near together, egg-shaped, sitting, male florets at the top. 

 Scales shorter than the capsule, which is cloven at the end, and 

 rather diverging. Summits 2. This species differs from C. 

 vulpina by its spike never being more than doubly compound, 

 and by the straw not being enlarged under the spike : from C 

 divisa by its fibrous root, its diverging capsules, and its want 

 of an upright floral-leaf: from C. stellulata by its numerous and 

 contiguous spikets, and its capsules being cloven at the end, 

 Goodenough Linn. Tr. ii. i:>8. Straw with or without a 



floral- leaf. Hud*. Six to finches high. Spike hardly 1 inch. 



Var. 2. More slender, spike less compound ; Straw less roug 

 and at the bottom roundish. 



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