560 MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. 



In boggy places by the fides of lakes^ but not 

 common, as in i/7^, &c. "^iVU. 



The ftalk is two or three feet high, triangular and 

 very fliarp edged : the leaves near half an inch 

 wide, and very keen : the male fpike is two 

 inches long, and of a yellowifh green colour : 

 the fcales long, narrow, fubulatc, and rough 

 on the edges : Ibmetimes it has a few female 

 flowers upon it : the floral leaves are higher 

 than the Italk, and from their nice arifc three, 

 four, and fomctimes five green, cylindrical, fe- 

 male pendent Ipikes, two inches long, fupported 

 on peduncles ; fometimes, but not always, two 

 peduncles arife from the ala of the fame leaf : 

 the caplules arc very numerous and clofely kt, 

 and when full grown are green, lubulate, fl:ri- 

 ated, refiexed, and terminated with a double 

 fpine : the kales are green. Very narrow, almolt 

 letaceous, and rough on the edges. 



ce-fpitcfa, CAREX fpicis eredis cylindricis ternis fubfefiili- 



23- bus, malcula terminali, culmo triquetro. Sp. 



pi. 1388. Raii tyn. ^-p- 41^^- n. 4^5. (Moris. 



/. 8. /. 12./. 14. hena.) Q.glauca. Scop. Carniol. 



Turfy-pink-leav'd Carex. Jnglis. Starr. Scotis. 

 Perhaps a corruption of Siure^ fignifying rough or 



harfli. 

 in roarfiies and v/et paftures frequent, %^ VI. 



The 



