MONOECIA TRIANDRIA^ 561 



The ftalk is a foot or more high : the leaves glau- 

 cous : the male fpikes are generally two, but 

 vary from one t6 four : the fcales are obtufe, and 

 almofl: black, having a j'ellowifh doilal line or 

 Carina : the female fpikes are commonly two or 

 three, exactly cylindrical, an inch or an inch and 

 a half long, either feffile, or fupportcd on Ihort 

 peduncles, always ereft at iirft, but commonly 

 pendulous when the feeds are ripe and heavy : 

 the lowermoft floral leaf is ufually as high as 

 the ftalk, and the uppermoft of the female 

 fpikes has often male flowers at the top : the 

 capfules arelliort, fmall, obtufe, very numerous, 

 clofe, and regularly ranged, greenifli when 

 young, but of a dark tawny colour when ripe -, 

 and, when viewed thro* a lens, appear to have 

 a flight ftiort pubefcence : the fcales arc oval, 

 and almofl black, having a yeliov/ doriai line : 

 the ftylc is bifid and white. 

 pk There is a variety of this a yard high, having fe- 

 male fpikes two inches long or more, but in 

 other refpeds flmilar : this feems to be the kind 

 figured in Moris, hifl. f. 8. /. 12./. 3, and per^ 

 haps alfo by Michel t.^^.f. 12. IS Loes. Prujf. 

 p, 116. /. 3O0 



difmis 24, CAREX fpicis remotiflfimis fubfeflllibus, braftea 

 vaginali, capfulis angulatis mucronatis. Sp. pi. 

 1387. Syfi^nat, 6j8. {Moris, hijl. /. 8. /. 12./. 



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