MONOECIA TRlANDRIA. ' 561 

 The ftalk is a foot or more high : the leaves glau= 

 cous : the male fpikes are generally two, but 

 vary from one to four : the fcales are obtufe, and 

 almoft black, having a yellowifli dorfal line or 

 Carifia : the female fpikes are commonlv two or 

 three, exactly cylindrical, an inch or an inch and 

 a half long, either feffile, or [fupported on fhort 

 peduncles, always ereft at firft, but commonly 

 pendulous when the i'ccds are ripe and heavy : 

 the lowermoft floral leaf is ufually as high as 

 the ftalk, and the uppermoft of the female 

 fpikes has often male flowers at the top: the 

 capfules are fhort, fmall, obtufe, very numerous, 

 clofe, and regularly ranged, greenifh when 

 young, but of a dark tawny colour when ripe •, 

 and, when viewed thro' a lens, appear to have 

 a flight fhort pubefcence : the fcales are oval, 

 and almoll black, having a yellow dorfv.l line : 

 the flylc is bifid and white, 

 p. There is a variety of this a yard high, having fe- 

 male fpikes two inches long or more, but in 

 other refpeds fimilar : this feems to be the kind 

 figured in Afcris. hijl. f. 8. /. 12./. 3, and per- 

 ' haps alfo by Michel, t. -^i.f. 12. ^ Loes. Vrujf. 



p, 116. /. 30. 



dlftans 24, CAREX fpicis remotiffimis fubfefiilibus, bradea 

 vaginali, capfulls angulatis raucronatis. Sp. pi. 



- ' 1387. Syft.nat. 618. {Moris. hiJl. /. 8. /. 12./. 



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