MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. 559 



The ftalk is a foot or more high. The leaves are 

 glaucous, Iharp to the touch, and fcarcely half 

 the length of the ftalk. The male fpike is fingle 

 linear, cylindrical, and terminates the ftalk. 

 The fcales of it are fufcous, with a pallid nerve. 

 The female fpike is fometimes fingle, placed 

 about an inch below the male, but more gene- 

 rally they are two, placed two inches or more 

 afunder, ere(?t, the uppermoft fupported on a 

 fhort peduncle, the lowermoft on a longer, and 

 fubtended each by a floral leaf, which llieaths 

 the ftalk at the bafe, and is feldom longer than 

 it's concomitant fpike. Thefe fpikes at the time 

 of florefcence are fufcous, narrow and linear; 

 but foon afterwards they become turgid, and 

 are one half or three quarters of an inch long. 

 The capfules are large, oval, tumid, yellowifli 

 white, a little obtufe, and thinly kt, from four 

 to twenty in a fpike. The fcales are fufcous 

 and ftiorter than the capfules, fo that the latter 

 fwell out, and appear naked. The nerve is of 

 a yellowifli white colour. 



The capfules are fubjed to be blighted, and arc 

 then full of a footy powder. 



CAREX fpicis pendulis, pedunculis geminatls. Sp, 

 pi. 1387. {Ger. em. 29./. 2. 71071 mala. Moris^hijl. 

 /. 8./. 12./. 5.) 



Baftard-Cyperus Carcx. AngUs. 



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