.6(5 MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. 



In boggy places by the fides of lakes, but not 

 common, as in IJla^ &c. '^. VII. 



The ftalk is two or three feet high, triangular and 

 very Iharp edged : the leaves near half an inch 

 wide, and' very keen: the male fpike is two 

 inches long, and of a yellowifli green colour ; 

 the fcales long, narrow, fubulate, and rough 

 on the edges : fometimes it has a few female 

 flowers upon it : the floral leaves are higher 

 than the ftalk, and from their nice arilb three, 

 four, and fometimes five green, cylindrical, fe- 

 male pendent fpikes, two inches long, fupported 

 on peduncles : fometimes, but not always, two' 

 peduncles arife from the ala of the fame leaf: 

 the capfules are very numerous and clofely fet, 

 and when full grown are green, lubulate, ftri- 

 ated, reflexed, and terminated with a double 

 fpine : the fcales are green, very narrow, almoft 

 fetaceous, and rough on the edges 



cxfpitcfa. CAREX fpicis eredlis cylindricis ternis fubfefllli- 



^3* bus, mafcula terminali, culmo triquetro. Sp* 



pi. 13S8. Rait ^yn. '^.p. 418. n. 4 £f? 5. (Metis, 



f. 8. /. 12,/. 14. i/Gtja.) Cgiauca. Seep. Carniot, 



Turfy-pink-leav'd Carex. Anglis. Starr. Scotis. 

 Perhaps a corruption of Slure, fignifylng rough or 



harfh. 

 In marfhes and wet pafl:ures frequent, %^ VI. 



The 



