56g MONOECfA TRIANDRIA. 



twice the length of the fcales. Thefe differences 

 feem to be more than accidental. 



'iria 30. C. fpicis remotis, mafculis pluribus femineis fub 

 pedunculatis ere6lis, capfulis hirtis, Sp.pl.i^^^ 

 (PIuLalm.i. 34./. 6. Moris, hift.f, W. t. \i.f. 

 10. opt. Oed, Dan. t. 379. foliis nimis anguftis, 

 nee hirfutis, ideoqne fimilis C tcmentofcs noftr; 

 fed Oed, Dan. t. 4.2^. melior eft ) 



Hairy Carcx. JngUs. 



In wet paftures, as at Dumharton caftle, by the 

 river-fide, &:c. % . VI. 



The root creeps laterally under ground : the flalk 

 varies from fix inches to a foot in height : the 

 Mialefpikes are tv/o or three in nuniber; the fe- 

 males two or three, eredl, and remote from each 

 other ; the capfules are inflated and conical, 

 with a bifid point. The back of the leaves, 

 their bafc, vvhich fheaths the ftaik, and the cap- 

 fules, are covered with foft downy hairs, whicK 

 readily diftinguifn this fpecies. 



ERIOCAULON. Gen. pL 100. 



Charafleres reformati a D, Hope., vld. Mantifs. Lin. 



p. 167. 

 Cal. Perianthmn cornmune h^emifph^ricum ; foliolls 



orbicularis, fubsequalibus, ariprefTis, perfiftens, 



continens fiorem hsemifphsricum, aggregatum,^ 



ex flofculis numeroffimis. 

 ■^ * Mafcnii ^ofcuii in medio difci. 



