56g MONOECiA TRIANDRIA. 



twice the length of the fcales. Thefe differences 

 kern to be more than accidental. 



hJrla 30. C. fpicis remotis, mafculis pluribus femineis fub- 

 pedunculatis eredis, capfulis hirtis. Sp.pl. j^^g. 

 (PM. alm.t. 34./. 6. Moris, hift.f. 8. /. 12./, 

 JO. opt. Oed. Ban. t. ^yq. foliis nimls anguftis, 

 nee hirfutis, ideoque fimilis C. tomentofce noftrse, 

 fed Oed. Dan. t. 425. mclior eft ) • 



Hairy Carex. Anglis. 



\n wet paflures, as at Dumbarton caftlc, by the 

 river-fide, &c. %. VI. 



The root creeps laterally under ground : the ftalk 

 varies from fix inches to a foot in height : the 

 male fpikes are two or three in number ; the fe- 

 males two or three, ercdb, and remote from each 

 other : the capfules are inflated and conical, 

 with a bifid point. The back of the leaves, 

 their bafe, which flieaths the ftalk, and the cap- 

 fules, are covered with foft downy hairs, which 

 readily diftinguilh this fpecies. 



- : ERIOCAULON. Gen. pi. ico. 



Characleres reform ati a D. Hepe:^ vid. Mantifs. Lin. 



p. i6y. 

 Cal. Perianlhium comtnune h^mi(phs£r\cum ', foVioYis 



orbiculatis, fubsequalibus, appreffis, perfiftens, 



continens florem haemifphiericum, aggregatum, 



ex flofculis numeroffimis. 

 S * Mcifcidi fiofculi in medio difci. 



Cfd, 



