542 MONOECIA TRIANDRiA; 



/i^. 2 2. {mas Ion.) Ocd, Dan. t. 369., mas ^ fern. 

 opt.) 



Dioecious Carex. Anglis. 



In boggy j)laccs in the highlands and Hebrides., not 

 unfieqiient. V . \l. 



The lUlk is round, ftriated, and about fix or feven 

 inches h'gh. 1 he leaves are narrow, almoft fe- 

 t.iceous, and about three or four Inches long : 

 the niale and fenrialc ipikcs grow on diftind 

 plants : the male is cylindrical, and about 3-4ths 

 of an inch long \ the female is at firft oval, and 

 about i-4th of an inch long; but in the ieed- 

 mg ilare is produced, becomes cylindrical, and 

 iS often lenihened to half an inch. The ftyle 

 has v^o fiigmata. 



We have nevt-r yet been able to difcover any per- 

 manent difference between the female of this 

 pl^'ht and the car ex capttata of Livnaus. The 

 figures quoted by that author for the C. capttata, 

 VIZ. Moris. hift.J. 8./. 12. f. 36. ^ind Mich. gen. 

 t. 32, /. I, 2. do exadlly correfpond with the 

 female variety of our plant, in its different llages 

 of growth. Ltnn^ns indeed aflirms, that the 

 C. cafitcta has fome male fiowers at the fummit 

 of the fpike •, but fo far as we have yet obferv'd, 

 this is by no means a confi;ant charadleriflic. 

 Thofe plants that have male flowers are rarely 

 jcen, and mixed vv'ith them are more individuals 

 th.at liave none. Tlie figure of Oed. Fl. Ban, 

 t. 572. (hippos'd by that author to be the C. ca- 

 fhaln Lin ] vjq kncvv nothing ot. Ir bids more 



