APPENDIX. 1079 



Little chocolate-headed Club-rufli. Anglh. 



Upon the Highland mountains, as upon Mal- 

 ghyrdy in Breadalbane. Mr. Stuart. %. VIII. 



It is about three inches high, the flalks deftitute 

 of leaves, cylindrical and flriated. 



The radical leaves refemble the ftalks, and often 

 exceed them in height, but are frequently- 

 bent downwards in a curve. 



Both ftalks and leaves are fheathed at their bafe, 

 the /heaths truncated at top. 



The fpike is fmall and oval, of a reddifli-brown 

 or chocolate color, terminating the ftalk, and 

 compofed generally of three or four flowers, 

 fupported by a calyx confifting of two oval 

 valves which are fhorter than the flowers, and 

 have white membranaceous margins. 



It differs from xhe S. cafpitofus., in having radical 

 leaves as high as the ftalk, truncated vagina: 

 without a mucro^ and oval valves to the colyx, 

 fhorter than the flowers, and without an ex- 

 tended rigid point ; neither has it the faded 

 oval-acute fcales which are found at the bafe 

 of the ftalks in the S. c^fpitofiis. 



From the S. palujiris it manifeftly differs, in hav- 

 ing a fpike compos'd of few flowers, and not 

 digefted into an imbricated cone. 



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