MGNOECIA TRIANDRIA: 



/^. 2 2. {7nas hon.) Ged. Dan. t. 569, mas 6? fcm, 

 opL) 



Dioecious Carex. Anglis, 



In boggy places in the highlands and Hehidcs, not 

 unfrequent. V- . VI. 



The ilalk is round, Uriated, and about fix or feven 

 inches high. The leaves are narrow, almoft fe- 

 taceous, and about three or fouL inches long : 

 the n;ale ajid female fpikcs grow on d:ftindt 

 plants : the male is cylindrical, and about 3-4ths 

 of an inch long •, the female is at firll: oval, and 

 about i-4th of an inch long-, but in the feed- 

 ing {late is produced, beccmes cylindrical, and 

 is ofttn lenthened to half an inch. The ftyle 

 h;iS l\''/Ojligmaia. 



We have ncvt-r yet been able to difcover any per- 

 mar.ent difference between the female of this 

 j'lajit and rhe car ex capitata of Lipnaus. The 

 ligures quoted by that author for the C. capital a ^ 

 viz. Moris, hiji.j. 8./. 12./. 36. and Mich. gen. 

 t. 32. /. I, 2. do excdiy correfpond with the 

 kinale variety cf our plane, in i-ts different ftages 

 of growth. IJnn.-ctiS indeed affirms, that the 

 C. capitata has ibme male flovv'ers at the fummit 

 of the fpike •, but fo far as we have yet obferv'd, 

 this is by no means a conftant characleriflic. 

 Thofe plants that have male flowers are rarely 

 feen, and mixed with them arc more individuals 

 that have none. The figure of Oed. Fl. Dan, 

 t. 372. (fuppos'd by that author to be the C. ca- 

 ptaia Lin ) we knew nothing of. It bids more 



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