MONCECIA. TRIAND. 1657. Carex. 



'537 



iatifolia . 

 poaformis* 



tenuis* 

 la-vis. 



dioica. 



capiiata. 



* Davalli- 

 ana. 



Culm 3-fided, leafy, erect, fmooth: leaves broad lanceolate: 

 nerved: flowers panicled. 

 Jamaica. Swartz, prodr, 18. 



Culm leafltfs: panicles contracted, with flexuous branches: 

 fpikelets feflie : female fpikes axillary ; males 2- 

 flowered. 

 Eall Indies. Retz. obs. 4. /. 13. Culm 3 fided. 



Culm leafy : leaves unarmed : panicle capillary : flowers 

 feilile ; outer ma;e, inner femule. 

 Ceylon. Retz. obs. 4. 13 Leaves filiform. 



Culm leafy : leaves unarmed : branches of the panicle di- 

 vided, involucred : male fpikes feffile and peduncled. 

 £aft Indies. Retz. obs. 4. 13. Female fpikes feffile. 



1657. CAREX. Male. Ament imbricate: calyx, 

 glume 1 -valved : corol o. 



Fern Ament imbricate: calyx y glume i-valved: corol o: 

 ftigmata 2 or 3 : feeds covered with a fwclling 

 tunic. Sedge grafs, 



A. Spike folitary y ftmple. 



Spike dioecious : fruit ovate, nerved, afcending, ferrulate 

 on the margins. 

 Wet pailurcs. Eng. Bot. t. 543. Flor. Dan. t. 369. 



Spike androgynous, ovate ; upper-part male ; fruit im- 

 bricate-expanding, very entire on the margins. 

 Sweden, Denmark, Flor. Dan. t. 372. 



Spike diascious : fruit lance-triangular, nened, fpread- 

 deflecled : the angles rough at top. 

 Marfhes. Scbeuchz. agr. 479. tab. 1 v.f. 9, 10. 



. 



pulicaris* Spike androgynous, male at top : fruit divaricate, retro- 

 .flecked, pointed at both ends, nervelefs : ftigmata 2. 

 Marfhes. Flor. Dan, t. 166. Leers. 194. /. 14. f. 1. 

 ■• 



* paucijlora. Spike androgynous, few-flowered, male at top : fruit 

 fpreading, fubulate ; ftigmata 3. 

 Alpine bogs. Light/. 543. tab. £>./. 2, 



fauarrofa. Spike androgynous, female at top . fruit imbricate, hori* 

 zontal. 

 Canada. Spike oblong : eapfules wiih a linear tip* 



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