MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. 557 



i^ummits of the female fpikes are generally abor- 

 tive. 



caj>i!!ansi9 CAREX fpicis pendulis ; mafcula erefta, fcmineis 

 oblongis diftichis, capfulis, nudis acumina- 

 tis. Sp. pi. 1386. {i^eguier. Suppl. p. 83. /. 3. 



■ ' /.J. Scopol. Fl. Carniol. ii^'^. t. 59. Oed. Dan. 



/. 168, opt.) , 



Capillary Carex. Anglis. 

 ' -. Upon the highland mountains, as on Bcnlcjlerny^ 



Craigneuli^l., and Malghyvdy, in Breadalbam. Mr. 

 ; ' : Stuart, if . VII. VI II. 



When it firfl flowers the ftalk is no more than two 

 ■ -^ .' , ■• or three inches high, terminated with four fpikes, 

 ■ • Handing as yet erecft, on fine capillary peduncles, 

 ■' ' the uppermoft of which is male : foon afterwards 

 the ftalk flioots up ere6>: to the height of fix or 

 '^ feven inches, (lender and filiform, at which time 



- . ■ the female fpikes become pendant with the weight 

 of the feeds: the lowermoft of the three is fub- 

 tendcd by a braSlca, or floral leaf, which is not 

 : fo high as the ftalk : the other two have gradu- 



ally fhorter BraSlea., and the uppermoft has its 

 peduncle arifing from the fame point as the 



■ i ■ -'. ' male: the fcalcs of the female fpikes are deci- 

 ' duous, the capfules therefore appear naked, and 



are brown, oval-acute, alternate, thinly itt.^ 

 ufually about four in a fpike, rarely eight. 

 The leaves are narrow and linear, and the plant 



may 



