MONOECIA TRJANDRIA. s^j 



gathered it upon Beniejkeiny^ in Breaddbane^ &-c. 

 ^. VJI. 

 The flalk is two feet high : the male fpikes are two 

 or three in number, narrow, linear, acute, the 

 uppermoft about two inches long, of a pale 

 brown coloyr : the female fpikes are commonly 

 two or three, rhe uppermoft fe/Iile, the lowermofl 

 on 2 fhort peduncle : they are about two inches 

 long, ered, cylindrical, and of a yellowifli green 

 colour : the fcales are oval, fufcous, with pale 

 green edges and dorfal lines, and nearly of the 

 length of the capfules, which are of a fhort oval 

 or round iili inflated figure, terminated v.'ith a 

 bifid point. They are numerous and clofely fer, 

 almoll at right angles to the central rib, of a 

 yellowifli green colour at firft, but of a pale 

 brown when ripe. 



CAREX fpicis mafculis pluribus, femineis {^^~ 

 filibus, capfulis ovatis inflatis acummatis, brac- 

 teis duplo longioribus. Uudf.FLJng.p.^^^. var. 

 y. C. 'veficaride. Lin. Sp.pl. 1389, Rait Syn.p. 420. 

 72. 14. {Moris, hiji.f. 8. t. ii f. 6.) 



Short thick-inflated Caiex. Juglis 



In bogs and marflies, as about Finlang^ in Jlrea,- 

 dalhane, dzc. Mr. Siuar^. n . VII. 



This is made a variaty of the preceding by LinnauSy 

 but it differs from it in the following particulars. 

 The fpikes are fhorter, and all feflile ; the cap- 

 fules are of a longer, oval, or more conic form, 

 three times larger, greatly inflated, not above 

 half fo numerous, aad of a pale yellow colour, " 



twice 



