.550^ MONOECIA TRiANDRIA. 



oval, diftant, fefllle, fix or eight in number, of 

 a pale green colour, placed in the AU of the 

 leaves: the leaf which fubtends the loweft^/- 

 cida is higher than the top of the ftalk •, the 

 other leaves above it are gradually fhorter. 



canefcensii CAREX fpiculis fubrotundis remotis feflilibus ob- 

 tufis androgynis, capfulis ovatis obtufiufcuiis. 

 Sp' pi' 1383 {Mich- gen- p. 70. n- 5- /• 33* /• li^: 

 Loes.TruJf. 117, /• 32, bona- Oed. Dan. t.i'i^^) 



White Carex. JngUs. 



In bogs, but not common. We obferved it in 

 fome bogs in IJla, about two miles from the 

 Sound. %. VII. 



The ftalk is a foot high, or more, exadly triangu- 

 lar : the leaves are generally fhorter than the 

 ftalk : the fpike is compounded, commonly of 

 five or fix fnort, oval, feflile, whitifh, green ^Z- 

 cuUy diftincl from each other, but clofeft at the 

 top : fometimes a narrow foliaceous braSlea fub- 

 tends the lovie^ fpicula, but ufually they are all 

 naked j the fcales are fhorr, obtule, and white, 



• with a green nerve : the capfules are whitifh, with 

 a mixture of green, longer than the fcales, but, 

 compared with other fpecies, fhort and fomewhat 

 obtnfe. 



This is undoubtedly the plant which Ra)\ in his 

 Syn. flirp- ant:,!, 423, intends by Grnmen cyperoides 

 pa^ujlre ekgans fpica - —I'^.ofita afperioii^ which 

 fome authors m ' .. .-; .ynonym of C. Bri~ 



