MONOE(!:iA TRIANDRIA. 545 



The root creeps under the fand, and throws out 



feveral ftalks about three or four Indies high^ 



which are obfcurely triangular, footh and curv'd 



like the arc of a circle. The leaves are fmooth, 



channel'd, two or three in number, -and nearly 



fef the fame length as the ftalk : the fpike is of" 



" ■ ■ ': a Ihort conical, or triangular form, and fufcous 



colour, compounded of feveral fmall cluftered 



ova.\ fpicuU, each of which has male flowers at 



'■ . the top, and female ones at the bale. The llyle 



has generally only two fiigmata : the fpike no 



Involucrum, or fubtending leaf. It approaches 



near that Car ex mentioned by Scheuchzer^ in his 



ylgrcjicgraph.p 495. Frodrom. f. ^. and defer ib'd 



■' • t)y Hal/er in ////?. Siirp. Helvet. n. 1355, but 



■ '' the llalk of that has no curvature, the leaves 



are plain, and the whole plant is foetid. 



arenarla 5. CAREX fpica compofita, fpiculis androgynis ; 

 inferioribus rc.motioribus foliolo longiori inftruc- 

 tis, culmo triquetro. Sp.pl. 1381. {Pluk. t. 34. 

 /. B, Loes. Pruff. t. 3?, quoad habitum & ftatum 

 florefcentem bona, fed fpiculis paucionbus. Mi- 

 chel gen. t. 33, / 4, bene exprimit Ipiculas fc- 

 minantes.J 



-; - - " Sea-fand Carex. AngUs. 

 ; ." On the fea-fhores where the fand is loofe and move- 

 able frequent, as in Bute^ Arran, Cant ire, OrarJa, 



-' ■• • 6cc. It. VII. 



• ^^- " The root creeps horizontally under the fand, and 

 ■ - N n thrown 



