MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. 545 



the root creeps under the fand, and throws out 

 feveral ftalks about three or four inches high, 

 which are obfcurely triangular, footh and curv'd 

 like the arc of a circle. The leaves are fnfiooth, 

 channel'd, two or three in number, and nearly 

 of the fame length as the ftalk : the fpike is of 

 a fliort conical, or triangular form, and fufcous 

 colour, compounded of feveral fmall cluftered 

 ovaX fpicuU, each of which has male flowers at 

 the top, and female ones at the bale. The ftyle 

 has generally only two fiigmata : the fpike no 

 Involucrum, or fubtending leaf. It approaches 

 near that Carex mentioned by Scheuchzer, in his 

 ■^grojlograph.p 495. Prodrcm.t.^. and defcrib'd 

 by Haller m Hift, Stirp. Helvet. n. 135s, but 

 the ftalk of that has no curvature, the leaves | 

 are plain, and the whole plant is fcetid. 



sireuarta 5. CAREX fpica compofita, fpiculis androgynis ; 

 inferioribus remotioribus foliolo longiori inftruc- 

 tis, culmo triquetro. Sp.pl. 13B1. {Pluk. L 34. 

 /. 8. Loes. PruJJ'. t,^i, quoad habitum & ftatum 

 florefcentem bona, fed fpiculis paucioribus. M/- 

 chel.gen.t. 33, /. 4, bene exprimit fpiculas fe- 

 minantes.J 



Sea-fand Carex. AngUs. 



On the fea-ihores where the fand is loofe and move- 

 able frequent, as in Bute^ Arrm, Caniire, Oranfa, 

 &c. %. VII. 



The root creeps horizontally under the fand, and 

 N n throws 



