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gathered it upon Bentejkenny^ in Breadalhanc^ &c. 

 %. VII. 



The flalk is two feet high : the male fpikes arc two 

 or three in number, narrow, linear, acute, the 

 iippermofi: about two inches long, of a pale 

 brown colour : the female fpikes are commonly 

 tv/o or three, the uppermoft felFile, the lowermoll 



^ on a fhort peduncle : they are about two inches 

 long, ereft, cylindrical, and of a yellowifh green 

 colour : the fcales are oval, fufcous, with pale 



: green edges and dorfal lines, and nearly of the 

 length of the capfules, which are of a fhort oval 

 or roundilTa inflated figure, terminated with a 

 bifid point. They are numerous and clofely fer, 

 almoll at right angles to the central rib, of a 

 yellowifli green colour at firft, but of a pale 

 brown when ripe. 



mflataic). CAREX fpicis mafculis pluribus, femineis ^c^- 

 filibus, capfulis ovatis infiatis acummatis, brac- 

 teis duplo longioribus. Hudf. Fl.Ang. ^.354. var. 

 y. C. ve/tcari.£. Lin. Sp.pl. 1389. Pyaii SyU.p. 420. 

 n. 14. {Moris, hijl.f. 8. /. 12 /. 6.) 

 Short thick-inflated Caiex. Anglis. 

 :'' ' In bogs and marfhes, as about Finlarig, in Brca- 

 dalbane., &c. Mr. Stuart. %. VII. 

 This is made a variety of the preceding by hinnxits., 

 but it differs from it in the following particulars. 

 The fpikes are fhorter, and all fclTile ; the cap- 

 fules are of a longer, oval, or more conic form, 

 three times larger, greatly inflated, not above 

 half fo numerous, and of a pale yellow colour, 



twice 



