546 MONGECIA TRIANDRIA. 



throws out many triangular rough ftalks, about 

 eight or ten inches high, one or two ftalks from 

 each joint of the root : the bafe of the ftalk un- 

 der the fand is fheathed with fufcous fcales: 

 above the fand it is furnilhed with ieveral leaves, 

 the exterior ones broadeft and fhorteft •, the in- 

 terior ones narrow, and commonly as long as 

 the ftalk : the fpike is about an inch and a half 

 long, generally nods, and is compounded of 

 about ten fefille, brown, acutely-oval fpiculit^ 

 crowded together at the top, but more diftant 

 at the bafe : the lowermoft fpicula is generally 

 fubtcnded by an Involucrum, or Bra^ea^ which 

 is often as long as the whole fpike : one or two 

 movz fpicule above this are furnifhed with fhorter 

 ones : the lowermoikJpicuU are female, the up- 

 permoft generally male, and the middle ones 

 commonly androgynous. 



d-ijhcba 6. CAREX fpica compofita fubdifticha, fpiculis ova- 

 tis imbricatis androgynis, folio longiori inftruc- 

 tis, culmo triquetro. Iludf. Fl. Ang. 347. {Pluk, 

 phyt. t. 34,/. 7, male. Mich. gen. ^.67, /. 33./. 

 3. tnelior^ fed Bracfea deeji.) 



Brown diftichous Carex. AngUs. 



In bogs and marfhy grounds, as at Laggan, near 

 Comrie, not far from Cm/, &c. Mr. StuarL %. 

 VI. 



The Italk of this is exactly triangular, othcrwife 

 wc Ihould have called it C. uligimfa Lin. It dif- 

 fers 



