MONOECIA TKIANDRIA. 557 



fummits of the female fpikes are generally abor- 



tive. 



£apllansjg CAR EX fpicis pcndulls •, mafcula erecla, femlneis 

 oblongis diftichis, cupfuiis^ nudis acumina- 

 tis. Sp. pi. 1386. {Seguier, Sitppl. p. 83./. :?. 

 /. I. SccpcL Fl. Carniol. 1152. t, 59. Oed, Dan. 

 t. 168. opt.) 



Capillary Carex. Anglis, 



Upon the highland mountains, as on Bentsjkerm^ 

 CraigneiiU^i., and Malghyrd)\ in Ereadalbans, Mr. 

 Stuart. %.Yi\. VIII. 



When it firll flowers the ftalk is no m.ore than two 

 or three mches high, terminated with four fpikes, 

 {landing as yet ereft, on fine capillary peduncles, 

 the uppermoft of which is male : foon atterwards 

 the ftalk (lioots up eredl to the height of fix or 

 feven inches, (lender and filiform, at which time 

 the female fpikes become pendant with the weight 

 of the feeds : the lowermoft of the three is fub- 

 tendcd by a bra^ea, or floral leaf, which is not 

 fo high as the ftalk : the other two have gradu- 

 ally Ihorter Bra^ea., and the uppermoft has its 

 peduncle arifing from the fame point as the 

 male : the fcales of the female fpikes are deci- 

 duous, the capfules therefore appear naked, and 

 are brown, oval-acute, alternate, thinly fetj 

 ufually about four in a fpike, rarely eight. 



The leaves are narrow and linear, and the plant 



may 



