;46 MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. 



throws out many triangular rough ftaiks, about 

 eight or ten inches high, one or two ftalks from 

 each joint of the root : the bafe of the ftalk un- 

 der the fand is fheathed with fufcous fcales : 

 above the fand it is furnifhed with feveral leaves, 

 the exterior ones broadeft and fhortell •, the in- 

 terior ones narrow, and commonly as long as 

 the ftalk : the fpike is about an inch and a half 

 long, generally nods, and is compounded of 

 about ten felTile, brown, acutely-oval fpicuUy 

 crowded together at the top, but more diftant 

 at the bafe : the lowermoft fpicula is generally 

 fubtended by an Involucrum, or Brazen, which 

 is often as long as the whole fpike : one or two 

 inore fpiad-e above this are furnifiied with fhorter 

 ones : the lower moikJpicuU are female, the up- 

 pcrmoft generally male, and the middle ones 

 commonly androgynous. 



CAREX fplca compofita fubdifticha, fpiculls ova- 



tis imbricatis androgynis, folio longiori inftruc- 



tis, culmo triquerro. Iludf. Fl. Jug. 347. {Pluk. 



phyt. t. 34, /. 7, maid. Mich, gen. p. 67, /. 33,/. 



3. in el i or, fed Br^i^ea deejl.) 

 Brown diftichous Carex. Anglis. 

 In bogs and marfliy grounds, as at Laggan^ near 



Ccmrie, not far from Crief &c. Mr. Stuart, %, 



VI. 

 The ftalk of this- is cxadly triangular, otherwife 



we ftiould have called it C. uliginoja Lin. It dif- 

 fers 



