' MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. 54^. 



fair to be a Scirpus than a Carex, at leaft in lia/j 

 "" no male flowers nor radical leaves, which arc 



dcfcribed as belonging to the C capitata Lin. 



pilkaris 2. CAREX fpica fimplici androgyna; flofculis plti- 

 ribus, mafculis terminalibus imbricatis, capfu- 

 lis retrofiexis, C. pull car is Lin.fp.pl. i3b'o. cha- 

 raoleribiis evioidatis. (^Mich.gen. ^.33./. i. Pluk. 

 fhyt. t. 34./. 10. Oed. Dan. t. \.<o6 ? non bene. 

 Moris. h'-Jl. f. S'. /. 12./. 21. opt ) 



Flea Carex. Ajiglis. 



In bogs frequent. %. VI. 



The ftalk is round and flriated, except being a 

 little liar on one fide, and is about five or fix. 

 inches high : the leaves are very n urov/, almoft 

 fetaceous, aoid, when the plant is in flower, ge- 

 nerally longer than the {talk : thefpike is about 

 3-4ths of an inch long, foinetimes an inch, ter- 

 minated with a narrow cylinder of feveral male 

 flowers which are diciduous : the females are 

 about fix or eight, placed underneath them in 

 the fame fpike, at firft erectly imbricated, but 

 afterwards horizontal, antl in the leeding frat;? 

 deflex'd, and of a blakifii colour, l^he llyle 

 is terminated with o.dy 1^0 JiigJiuita. 



fc.ucifloraT, CAREX fpica fimplici androgvna ; fioribus fe- 

 mineis fubternis remotiufculis patentibus, mal- 

 culo unico terminali. (fig. nofi ) 

 Few flowered Carex. Jnglis. 



