564 MONOECIA TKIANDRIA. 



CAREX fpicis pcndulis, mafcula erecla,femineis 

 cylindricis pedunculo longioribus, capfiilis acu^ 

 minatis. Hudf. Fl. a'ngl. ^.352. 

 Carex fpicis femininis pendulis longiflimis, capfulis 

 mucronatis ovatis. Hall. hijl. n. 1396. 



Carex maxima. Sco^ol. Carnicl. n. 1166. (Moris, 

 hiji. ox. J, 8. /, 12./. 4. Barrelier ic. 45) 



Great pendulous Carex. Jnglis. 



In. fhady wet places, but not common ; found in 

 Breadalbane by Mr. Stuart, 1;. VII. 



The flalk is three or four feet high : the leaves 

 half an inch broad, their edges and middle nerve 

 fliarp to the touch : the male fpike is generally 

 fingle, and often five or fix inches long : the 

 fcales lanceolate and fufcous : the female fpikes 

 are commonly five, fometimei fix, the lower- 

 moft frequently fix or feven inches long, either 

 fcllile or fupported on very fhort peduncles, but 

 on account of their length always pendulous : 

 the tops of thefe fpikes have often male flowers : 

 the floral leaves are fcarcely fo high as the fl:alk : 

 the capfules are very numerous, oval, fhort, 

 green, ftriated, flightly acuminated, and clofely 

 let, except at the bafc of the fpike, which is the 

 flenderefl: part : the fcales are fufcous, having a 

 green, lanceolate, acute dorfal nerve. 



I have feen what I take to be a variety of this, 

 having three male fpikes, and tlie females not 

 more than two or three inches long, more ereft, 



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