MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. 549 



murkata 10 CAREX fpiculis fubovatis feflilibus remotis andro- 



gynis, capfulis acutis divergentibus fpinofis. ^S^. 



pi. 1 382. {Mich. gen. 6<^.t. 33. /. 9^11. Moris. 



hiji, 3. p. 244./ 8. /. 12./. 26. Scheuchz. gram. 



485. /. 11./. 3. Oed. Dan. t. 284. cpt.) 



Small prickly Carex. Anglis, 



In mirfhes and wet fhady places. %. VII. 



The ftalk is triangular, from fix to ten inches high : 



the leaves are fometimes longer than the flalk : 



the fpike is compounded generally of three or 



four fmall roundifhy/);V«/^, diRinfl, but not far 



d'lftani from each other : the capfules are acute 



and rigid, and when ripe diverge from each 



other. A fmall fetaceous hraUea fometimes, 



but not always, fubtends the lowermofl fpicula, 



|3. We have feen, what we apprehend to be only a 



variety of this, a fpecimen with a fpike confift- 



ing of fix or eight fpictiU., more remote from 



each other, the lowermoll an inch diftant from 



the reft; as in Mich. gen. t.T^^.f. 11.) 



remota 1 1 C. fpiculis ovatis fubfeflilibus remotis androgyni'5, 

 foliis caulinis culmum ^quantibus. Sp. pi. 1383. 

 (Pluk.t. 34,/. 3. Mich. gen. t.^^.f. 16. Moris. 

 hiji.f. S. /. 12./. 17. Oed Dan.^t. 370 ) 

 Long-leav'd axillary Carex. Jngiis' 

 In woods and fhady wet places. %. VII. 

 The ftalk is a cubit high, flender, weak, and fur- 

 nifhcd with long narrow leaves : tbe/picu/^ are 



oval. 



