MONOECIA Triandria.
Gen. Char. Male, Catkin imbricated. Cal. of i
fcale. Cor. none. Female, Catkin imbricated.
Cal. of i fcale. Cor. none. Stigmas 2 or 3.
Seed clothed with a fwelling tunic.
Spec. Char. Spike twice or thrice compound, denfe,
rather pointed. Spikelets cluttered. Fruit fpread-
ing, gibbous. Stem roundilh.
Syn. Carex teretiufcula. Gooden. Tr. of Linn. Soc.
v. 2. 163. t. 19. ƒ. 3. Sm. FI, Brit. qj f .
With. 95. Hull. 206. Relh. ed. 2. 365.
R a y appears to have been acquainted with this Carex, (fee
his remark in the Synopjis under C. paniculata,) though it
entirely efcaped the notice of modern botanifts till Mr. Crowe
found it on St. Faith’s bogs near Norwich, and at Barton
mills. Since Dr. Goodenough publilhed his defcription and
figure, the plant has been dete&ed in Scotland. We have it
alfo from Shropfhire by favour of the Rev. Mr. Williams, and
from feveral parts of Yorkfhire gathered by Mr. Hailftone and
Mr. W . Brunton. It flowers in May, and is perennial.
This differs from the preceding in not being in any of its
parts above half fo large. The ripe fruit (fee t. 1064. ƒ . 2.)
is more tumid : the fpike lefs compound, more denfe, and not
by any means panicled : the fpaces between the angles of the
ftem are convex and prominent, not flat, whence that round-
nefs of ftem exprefied in the fpecific name : finally, the plants
grow feparate, not forming tufts, a circumftance pointed out by
Ray as well as by Dr. Goodenough.