5^Q MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. 



point or beard, of a fufcous colour, with '4 

 greenifh dorfal jir.e : the capfules are of a trian- 

 gular conic form, with a bifid point, fmooth, 

 liriated, clofejy fct, and of a dull greenifh fuf- 

 cous colour : the ftyle is trifid and fufcous. Such 

 53 the plant we intend, with which the defcrip- 

 tions of R^y and Haher, &c. agree, and the 

 figures of Morifon and Micheli\ but as the cap- 

 lules are by no means obtufe, it is doubtful whe- 

 ther it be the C* aciiti^^ oi Linnaus. 

 Q. There is a variety of this v/ith the male fpikes 

 black, the leaves narrower, and the plant fmaller 

 in all its parts, flowering in wet pailures in JpriL 

 Ray^s Sy;i. p. 417. ;;. 2. 

 In //^/v the leaves of this plant are ufed by the 

 glafs-makers to bind their wine-flaflcs, by the 

 chair-makers to bottom chairs, and by the coo- 

 pers to place berv/een the jun6bures of the timber 

 in the heads of their cafks, in the fame manner 

 as the leaves of the T'ypha are ufed in the fame 

 country, and the flaiks of the Scirpus lacujlris 

 in Enghmd, 



'cariai^ CAREX fpicis m?fcu]i> pluribus, femineis pedun- 

 culatis, capfulis infiatis acuminatis. Lin. Sp. pL 

 1388. RdV Syn. ang^p. 4jc). ». 9. (Moris, hijt.f. 



8,M2./.8.) 



• Carex. Anglis. 



d marfhy places, but not very common. 



n the bogs of Ijla, and Mr. Stuart 



Gathered 



