554 MON.OECIA TRIANDRIA. 



/. 10, /. II, which Scheuchzer defcribes as hav- 

 ing downy capfules, but this circumilance being 

 taken no notice ot by Linn<sus, in the fpecific 

 difference of his Cfiiiformis (of which the above 

 is made a fynonym.) tho' it is made the princi- 

 pal charafteriftic of C. tomeniojay we are hence 

 led to conclude our's to be the lame with the C. 

 tcmcntofa of that author, 



j)i!uliferai6 CAREX Ipicis terminalibus confcrtis fubrotundis, 

 mafculina oblonga. Spec.pl. 1^%^. (Pluk aim. t, 

 91./. 8. Moris, hiji.f. 8. /. iz.f. 16. bona.) 



Pill-bearing Carex. jinglis. 



In moorilh grounds, as in the ifland of LamlaJJjy 

 on the fouth-weft coaft of Arran^ &c. %. VI. 

 VII. 



The ilalk is fix or eight inches high, triangular 

 and (lender : the leaves are fhorter than the ftalk, 

 and not Iharp to the touch : the compound fpike, 

 i. e. the male and female fpikes, taken col- 

 ledively, is about half an inch long, at moll 

 only 3-4ths of an inch : the male fpike terminates 

 the ftalk, is linear, acute, and i-3d of an inch 

 long; the fcales fufcous, with a green Carina: 

 the females are ufually two or three in number, 

 fmall, globular, leifile, alternate, and fct clofely 

 together at the bafe o'i ihe male, the lowermofb 

 often fubtendcd by a fojaceous^r^^^^^, commonly 

 fnorter than the compound fpike : the fcales are 

 fufcous, with a green Carina : the capfules are 

 roundiOl, acuminattd, and through a lens ap- 

 pear 



