5^2 MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. 



iDiftant Carex. AngUs. 

 ' In marfhes and wet paftures not unfrequent. lie 

 VI. VII. 

 The llalk is a cubit high : the male fpike is 

 commonly fingle, an inch long ; the fcales ob- 

 tufe and fufcous, with a yellowifh green nerve : 

 the female Tpikcs are fometimes two, mod com- 

 monly three, rarely four, erefi:, axillary, ge- 

 nerally fhorter than the male, the uppermoft 

 feffile, the others on fliort peduncles : the floral 

 leaves are fliorter than the ftalk, and flieath it at 

 their bafe : but the principal character of this 

 fpecies is the diftance of the female fpikes from 

 each other, the lowermoft being frequently 

 fix inches below the next above it, and that 

 often an inch and a half from its fuperior. The 

 capfules are fufcous, fmooth, and angular, hav- 

 ing a ftrong, acute roftrum, terminated with a 

 ilightly bifid point \ the angles green. The 

 leaks are dark, fufcous, the nerve green, and 

 extended to a point. 



hlvaticai^ C. fpicis pendulis, mafcula ereda, femineis filifor- 

 mibus pedunculo brevioribus, capfulis acutis 



- dillantibus. Hudj. FL Ang. f. 353. C.ve/icaria, 

 var. p. Li}7. Sp. pi. 13^9. {Lobcl. ic. p. 60. Mo- 

 ris. h:Jl. ex. f. 8. /. 12. /. 9. Oed. Ban. t. 404. 

 Jed [pea nimis crajfa.) 



Wood Carex. AngJis. 



In the highland woods not unfrequent. '^ . VI. 



The 



