MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. 547 



fers from the C. arenaria^ principally in place of 

 growth, and in not having a creeping root; and 

 from C. leporina in having more numerous fpi- 

 cuUy the lowermoft of which is fubtended by a 

 BrcMea, which is often as long as the whole 

 fpike. The male fpicuU at the top are acutely 

 oval, crowded together, their points often reced- 

 ing from the ftalk, and the whole fpike is of a 

 brown colour. 



lepnna 7. C. fpica compofita, fpiculis ovatis feffilibus approx- 

 imatis alternis androg)'nis nudis. Lin. Sp. pi. 

 1 38 1. {Seguier. Ver. i.p. 124. /. j./. 2. Scheuchz, 

 Agroft. 456. /. 10./. 15. bona. Moris, hifi. f, 8, 

 /. 12./. 29. opt.) 



Brown naked Carex. Anglis, 



In bogs and marfhy places not uncommon, if. VII; 



The ftalk is triangular, from a foot to a cubit 

 high : the fpike is compofed of five or fix brown 

 oval JpicuU^ without hra^e^, placed near to 

 each other on alternate fides of the ftalk : moft 

 of the flowers in the fpkuh are female : the 

 fcales are brown, with a green nerve. Inftead 

 of a hraSlea there is fometimes a broad-bearded 

 fcale fubtending the lovjeUfpicula. 



lulpina S. CAREX fpica fupradecompofita inferne laxiore; 



fpiculis androgynis ovatis feflilibus glomeratis, 



fuperne mafculis. Sp, pi. 1382 (Michel, gen. 6g, 



t. SZ*f' ^3? '4' Barrel, ic. 114. /. 11. Moris, 



N n 2 hi/}. 



