SSO MONOECIA TRIANDRIA* 



oval, difcant, fefllle, fix pr eight in number, of 

 a pale green colour, placed in the Jl^ of the 

 leaves: the leaf which fubtends the loweft^y^/- 

 cula is higher than the top of the llalk -, the 

 other leaves above it are gradually Ihorter. 



canefcensi2 CAREX fpiculis fubrotundis remotls felTilibus ob- 

 tufis androgynis, capiulis ovatis obtufiufculis. 

 Sp' pi 1^83 {Mich- gen. p. 70. n- 5. t- 33-/. iH, 

 Loes.TruJf. 117, i- 32, bona- Oed. Dajj, t. 285?) 



White Carex. Anglis. 



In bog<5, but not common. We obfervcd it in 

 fome hogs in IJla, about tv/o miles from the 

 Sound- If. VII. 



The ftalk is a foot high, or more, exactly triangu- 

 lar : the leaves are generally fiiorter than the 

 ftalk : the fpike is compounded, commonly of 

 five or fix fnort, oval, fefllle, whitifh, green fpi- 

 cuU, diftincl from each other, but clofeil at the 

 top : fometimcs a narrow foliaceous braSfea fub- 

 tends the low e^ fpi cula, but ufually they are all 

 naked ; the fcales are Ihort, obtufe, and white, 

 v/ith a green nerve : the capfules are whitilh, with 

 a mixture of green, longer than the fcales, but^ 

 compnrcd with other fpccic:, Ihort and fomewhat 

 obtufe. 



This is undoubtedly the plant which Ray, in his 

 Syn- liirp' angl. 423, intends by Gramen cyperoides 

 pjujlre ekgans /pica compofita afperiore, which 

 fome authors make to be a fynonym of C. Bri~ 



zoides^ 



