MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. 54^ 



fair to be a Scirpus than a Carex, at lead it has 

 no male flowers nor radical leaves, which are 

 defcribed as belonging to the C capital a Lin. 



CAREX fpica fimplici androgyna-, flofculis plu- 

 ribus, mafculis terminalibus imbricatis, capfu- 

 lis retroiiexis, C. pulicaris Lin.fp.pL 13 So. cba- 

 ra£ierihm erasndatis. {Mich. gen. /- 33./. i. Pluk. 

 phyt. t. 34-/. 10. Oed. Dan. t. 166 !^ non bene. 

 Moris, h'jl.f. \l. t. 12. f. 21. opt ) 



Flea Carex. Anglis. 



In bogs frequent. %■ . VI. 



The llalk is round and flriated, except being a 

 little flat on one fide, and is about five or fix 

 inches high : the leaves are very narrow, almoil 

 letaceous, a^^d, when the plant is in flower, ge- 

 nerally longer than the fl:alk : the fpike is about 

 ^-4ths of an incl^ long» fometimes an inch, ter- 

 minated with a narrow cylinder of feverai male 

 fiowers which are diciduous : the females aro 

 about fix or eight, placed underneath them in 

 the fame fpike, at firft eredly imbricated, but 

 afterwards horizontal, and in the feeding fi:atQ 

 deflex'd, and of a bkfkifli colour. The ftyle 

 is terminated with only Vf^oftigmata. 



paucifiora'2, CAREX fpica fimplici androgyna; floribus fe- 

 mineis fubternis remotiufculis patentibus, maf~ 

 culo unico terminaii. [fig-'nofi.) 

 Pew- flower'd Carex. Anglis. 



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