<,S4 MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. 



t, lo, /. II, which Scheuchzer defcribcs as hav~ 

 ing downy capfules, but this circumllance being 

 taken no notice of by Linna:us^ in the fpecific 

 difference of his Cfnformis (of which the above 

 is made a fynonym.) tho' it is made the princi- 

 pal charaderiftic of C. tomentofay we arc hence 

 kd to conclude our's to be the fame with fhc C, 

 Jowentcfa of that author. 



"biluliferaio CAREX fpicis terminalib'js confertis fubrotundis, 

 mafculina oblonga. Spec. pi. 1385. {Pluk. aim, t, 

 91./. 8. Mcris. hijl.f. 8. /. 12./. 16. bona.) 



Pill-bearing Carex. ^nglis. 



Jn moorifh grounds, as in the ifland of Lamhjhy 

 on the fouth-well coaft of Arran^ &c. %. VI. 

 VII. 



The ftalk Is fix or eight Inches high, triangular 

 and flender : the leaves are Ihorter than the ftalk, 

 and not Iharp to the touch : the compound fpikc, 

 i. e. the male and female fpikes, taken col- 

 lc(5l:ively, is about half an inch long, at moft 

 only 3-4ths of an inch : the male fpike terminates 

 the ftalk, is linear, acute, and i-3d of an inch 

 long -, the fcales fufcous, with a green Carina : 

 the females are ufually two or three in number, 

 Imall, globular, feftile, alternate, and fet clofely 

 together at the bafe of the male, the lowermoft: 

 often fubtcnded by a foliaceous£r^J7^d!, commonly 

 faorter than the compound fpike : the fcales are 

 fulcous, with a green Carina : the ca^^fules are 

 rounuifli, acuminated, and through a lens ap- 

 pear 



