;^56 MGNOECIA TRIANDRIA. 



lous : the fplkes are androgynous, the upper- 

 moil has generally male flowers at the bafe, the 

 lowermofl confjll chiefly of i'cmak or hermaphro- 

 dite riowers. 



iwvfi! 1 8. CAREX fpicis ovatis pendulis; mafcula iongiore 

 crcctiore, radice repenie. Sp.pl. J '^^6. (Scheuchz. 

 grcjn. 442. /. 10./. 13, Oed. Dan. t. 443, quSE 

 pro C. glohiilari datur, plantam noftram fpica 

 \inica fcnainea bene repreltntat) 

 Creeping Bog Carex. Anglis. 

 In bogs and marlhes, as at TuIlybanchaTy half a 

 mile weft of Comrie^ near Cricf, &c. Mr. Stuart. 



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The root is jointed and creeps : the ftalk is about 

 a foot high, :riangu]ar, fine and flendcr : the 

 leaves are very narrow and linear, about i-i2th 

 of an inch wide : the jmale fpike, which termi- 

 nates the ftalk, is cylindrical, flendcr, fufcous, 

 one half or three quarters of an inch long : 

 fcmetimes one only, but generally two oval fe- 

 male fpikes, about half an inch long, grow a 

 Ijirle below the male, half an inch diftanr from 

 each, on fhort, llender peduncles, erect in the 

 t me of Horefcence, but pendulous in the feed- 

 inp' flare: the lowcrmoft fpike is f-ibtended by a 

 fuliaceous brciica, longer than the Ipike itfelf ; 

 the f^ales and Carina arc both fufcous : the cap- 

 iules are oval, and of a bright green : the ftyles 

 arc three to each germcn : the flowers at the 



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