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APPENDIX. 1079 



Little chocolate-headed Club-rufli. Anglis. 



Upon the Highland mountains, as upon Mai- 

 ghyrdy in Breadalbane. Mr. Stuart. %. VIII. 



It is about three inches high, the ftalks deftitute 

 of leaves, cylindrical and ftriated. 



The radical leaves refemble the ftalks, and often 

 exceed them in height, but are frequently 

 bent downwards in a curve. 



Both ftalks and leaves are flieathed at their bafe, 

 the flieaths truncated at top. 



The fpike is fmall and oval, of a reddifti-brown 

 or chocolate color, terminating the ftalk, and 

 compofed generally of three or four flowers, 

 fupported by a calyx confifting of two oval 

 valves which are ftiorter than the flowers, and 

 have white membranaceous margins. 



It differs from the S. aefpitofus, in having radical 

 leaves as high as the ftalk, truncated vagina: 

 without a miicro^ and oval valves to the calyy:^ 

 fhorter than the flowers, and v/ichout an ex- 

 tended rigid point -, neither has it the faded 

 oval-acure fcales which are found at the bafe 

 of the ftalks in the S. c^fpitofus. 



From the S. paluftris it manifeftly differs, in hav- 

 ing a fpike composed of few flowers, and not 

 digefted into an imbricated cone. 



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