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ô(o C A R E X Pfeudo-Cyperus.
Rajlard-Cyperus Car esc.
M 0 N O E CIA Triandria,
Gen. Char. Male, Catkin imbricated. Cal. o f one
leaf. Cor. none. Female, Catkin imbricated.
Cal. o f one leaf. NeSlary ? inflated, cloven. Stigmas
3. Seed triangular, invefted with the neda ry.
Spec. Char. Leaves fcarcely fheathing. Female
catkins cylindrical, on flower-ftalks, pendulous.
F ru it fomewhat divaricated. N e d a ry tapering
to a beak.
S y n . Carex Pfeudo-Cyperus. Linn. Sp. PI. 1387.
Hudf. FI. An. 410. With. Bot. Arr. 1045. Relh.
Cant. 354. Goodenough Lr. of Linn. Soc.v. 2. 188.
Gramen cyperoides. fpica pendula breviore. Rail
Syn. 419. nr 1 -I- HIS is not very uncommon in wet lhady places, flowering
in June, and may eafily be diftinguilhed from all the reft of its
genus, by the large thick pendulous pedunculated female fpikes
or catkins, of a yellowifh green, fometimes two together, but
often folitary.
Root perennial, as (we believe) in every fpecies of Carex.
Stem with 3 acute rough cutting angles, above a foot high.
Leaves embracing the ftem, but with fcarcely any vagina, long,
broadilh, harfh, with rough edges and nerve. Male catkin
folitary, ered, with a bradea about half its length. Female
catkins about four, on footftalks nearly their own length, at firft
ered, but very foon pendulous. Scales in both fexes awl-
Ihaped, rough, dilated and concave at the bafe. Stamina
fhort. Suppofed nedary ftriated, comprefled, with rough
edges, cloven at the tip, enclofing the germen, which is fmall.
Style Ample, as long as the nedary, its 3 ftigmas (white in
decay) protruding beyond the orifice.
See Dr. Goodenough’s excellent paper above quoted for a
more ample defcription of this fpecies, as well as for remarks
upon the generic charader of Carex. We only beg leave to
obferve, that the part we for the prefent, with Linnaeus, call
nectary, can on no account be denominated a capfule, being
perfedly independant of the germen and ftyle. We would wilh
to call it the corolla.