MONOECTA, TRIANDRIA. 155 
ttt Spikes of distinct sexes. 
* Male spike solitary, female ones sessile or with the pe- 
duncles included. 
18. C. feminine spikes about three, sub-approxi- varia. 
mated, sessile, nearly globose; fruit sub-glo- 
bose, triquetrous, rostrate, bidentate, pubescent, 
shorter than the oblong scale; culm erect.— 

Willd. ) 
Icon. Schk. Car. t. Uun. f. 167. . 
Variable Sedge. 
In dry woods, common. Perennial. May. \ 
19. C. feminine spikes about two, approximated, marginats. é4 
sub-globose, sub-sessile ; fruit globose, tomen- 
tose, bidentate, larger than the oblong-ovate 
scale; radical leaves longer than the culm.— 
Willd. ; 
Icon. Schk. Car. t. LIL. f. 143. 
Marginated Sedge. : d 
A beautiful species, and very common, particularly in Jersey, 
in woods and on their borders, also by fences. Perennial. | 
April. 
20. ©. masculine spike lanceolate, feminine two, vestite. "4 
ovate, sessile, approximated ; fruit ovate, ros- 4 
trate, obliquely pubescent at the mouth, nearly 
equal to the ovate-acute scale.—Willd. . : 
Icon. Schk. Car. t. Bbbb. f. 182. . 
Hairy-beaked Sedge. 
In shady wet woods, especially in the Neck; common. Pe- 
rennial. June. , 
21. C. feminine spikes three, on included peduncles: tentacutata. 
ovate, almost in contact; bractes very long, 
leafy; fruit ovate, ventricose, nerved, very 
long, rostrate: mouth bidentate, longer than 
the lanceolate-mucronate scale.— Willd. 
Icon. Schk. Car. t. Ggg. f. 150. 

