55^ MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. 



lous : the Ipikes are androgynous, the upper- 

 moft has generally male flowers at the bafe, the 

 lowermoft conlift chiefly of female or hermaphro- 

 dite flowers. 



'iim^si iS. CAREX fpicis ovatis pendulis ; mafcula longiorc 

 ercctiore, radice repente. Sp.pl. 1386. (Scheuchx. 

 gram. 442. /. 10./. 13. Oed. Dan. t. 443, quse 

 pro C. gichulari datur^ plantam noftram fpica 

 unica feminea bene reprefcntat) 



Creeping Bog Carex. Anglis. 



In bogs and marfhes, as at TuUyhanchar^ half a 

 mile well of Comrie^ near Crkf^ &c. Mr. Siuart. 

 It. VI. 



The root is jointed and creeps : the ftalk is about 

 a foot high, triangular, fine and flcndcr : the 

 leasees arc very narrow and linear, about i-i2th 

 «}f an inch wide : the 'male fpike, which termi- 

 nates the flalk, is cylindrical, flcnder, fufcous, 

 {>ne half or three quarters of an inch long : 

 fomctimes one only, but generally two oval fe- 

 male Ipikes, about half an inch long, grow a 

 iittle below the male, half an inch diftant from 

 c;,uhf^'o'n fliort, flcnder peduncles, creel in the 

 t.mc oi floreicence, but pendulous in the feed- 

 ing flate: the lowcrmcfl: fpike is fubtended by a 

 foiiaceous hracfea, longer than the Ipike itfclf : 

 the Lales and Carina are both fulcous : the cap- 

 fi:lc-s are oval, and of a bright green : the flyles 

 ire three to eacii grrtnen : the flowers at the 



fummits 



