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The ftalk is a foot or more high. The leaves arc 

 glaucous, fliarp to the touch, and fcarcely half 

 the length of the ftalk. The male fpike is fingle 

 , ,;.. linear, cylindrical, and terminates the ftalk. 

 The fcales of it are fufcous, with a pallid nerve. 

 The female fpike is fometimes fingle, placed 

 about an inch below the male, but more gene- 

 rally they are two, placed two inches or more 

 afunder, ere(?t, the uppermoft ftipported on a 

 fnort peduncle, the lowermoft on a longer, and 

 lubtended each by a floral leaf, which ftieaths 

 the ftalk at the bafe, and is feldom longer than 

 it's concomitant fpike. Thefe fpikes at the time 

 of florefcence are fufcous, narrow and linear-, 

 but foon afterwards they become turgid, and 

 are one half or three quarters of an inch long. 

 The capfules are large, oval, tumid, yellowifti 

 white, a little obtufe, and thinly fet, from four 

 to twenty in a fpike. The fcales are fufcous 

 and ftiorter than the capfules, fo that the latter 

 fwell out, and appear naked. The nerve is of 

 a yellowifti white colour. 

 The capfules are fubjeft to be blighted, and arc 

 then full of a footy powder. 



Pfeudo-cy- CAREX fpicis pendulis, pedunculisgeminatis. Sp^ 

 ferus 22. fl 1387. {Ger. em. 29. /. 2. non mala. Moris, hifi- 

 /. 8./. 12./. 5.) 

 Baftard-Cyperus Carex. Anglis. 



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