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P MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. • 



point or beard, of a fufcoiis colour, with a 

 , grecnifli dorfal line : the capfuks are of a trian- 



gular conic form, with a bifid point, fmooth» 

 ih-iated, clofdy kt, and of a dull greenilh fuf- 

 cous colour : the flyle is trifid and fufcous. Such 

 is the plant we intend, v/ith which the defcrip- 

 tions of Ray and Haller, &c. agree, and the 

 figures of Mori/on and Micheli \ but as the cap- 

 fules are by no means obtufe, it is doubtful whe- 

 ther It be the C- ricuta^ ci Linnaus. 

 p. There is a variety of this with the male fpikes 

 black, the leaves narrower, and the plant fmaller 

 in all its parts, flowering in wet pallures in April. 

 Uay^s Syn. p. 417, ?;. 2, 

 In Italy the leaves of this plant are ufed by the 

 glafs-makers to bind their wine-flafks, by the 

 chair-makers to bottom chairs, and by the coo- 

 - pers to place between the jun6tures of the timber 

 in the heads of their ca/ks, in the fame manner 

 as the leaves of the Typha are ufed in the lame 

 country, and the (talks of the Scirpus lacujlris. 

 in England. 



ve^cariazB CAREX fpicis mi^fcuJi-; pluribus, femineis pedun- 



culatis, capfulis inflatis acuminatis. Lifj. Sp. pL 



. 1388. Rati Syn. a?!^, p. 4\<). «. 9. {Moris, bifr.f. 



B'-addet" Tircx. Anglis. 



iii bogs Ai\d marlliy places, but not very common. 

 I oblcr'ved it in the bogs of Jfa^ and Mr. Stuari 



gathered 



