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pendula 2^ CAREX fpicis pendulis, mafcula erefla femineis 

 cyhndricis pedunculo longioribus, capfulis acu- 

 m\mi\s. Hudf. FL angl. p. -^(^2. 

 Carex fpicis femininis penduhs longiiTimis, capfulis 

 '• - : . mucronatis ovatis. Hall. hift. n. 1396. 



Carex maxima. Scopol. Carniol. n. ii66. (Moris. 

 *' ^ hijl. ox. J. 8. /, J 2./. 4. Banelier ic. 45 J 



■'' Great pendulous Carex. AngUs. 



la fliady wet places, but not common i found in 

 ; * Breadalbane by Mr. Stuart^ %. VII. 



The ftalk is three or four feet high : the leaves 

 half an inch broad, their edges and middle nerve 

 iharp to the touch : the male fpike is generally 

 fingle, and often five or fix inches long : the 

 fcales lanceolate and fufcous : the female fpikes 

 are comm.only five, fometimes, fix, the lower- 

 moft: frequently fix or feven inches long, either 

 feilile or fupported on very fliort peduncles, but 

 on account of their length always pendulous: 

 the tops of thefe fpikes have often male flowers: 

 the floral leaves arefcarcely fo high as the flralk: 

 the capfules are very numerous, oval, fhort, 

 green, ftriated, flightly acuminated, and clofely 

 fet, except at the bafe of the fpike, which is the 

 flenderefl: part : the fcales are fufcous, having a 

 green, lanceolate, acute dorfal nerve. 

 i have fcen what I take to be a variety of this, 

 having three male fpikes, and the females not 

 more than two or three inches long, more ereft, 



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