664. OLXXII. CYPERACER. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Eriophorum. 
Stamens 3-1, on the anterior side of nut. Style slender, glabrons, doci- 
duous, long (in Sect. Lachnophorum short); branches 3 (accidentally dc 
4)long. Nut sessile, trigonous, smooth, dusky black, apex narroweo. 
Species 10, Arctic or N. Temperate, except Sect. Lachnophorum. 
The genus was well-marked, until Bentham (Gen. Pl. iii. 1052) removed the 
comose species of Scirpus (the Sylvatice Sect.) into it, on the ore bristles are 
hypogynous bristles are similar. But in each flower of Eriophorum t e Be and in 
20-40 (or with 20-40 segments), while in Scirpus, Sect. Sylvatice they ane Bech 
their ligulate structure (see Fl. Dan. Suppl. t. 8) they differ greatly 1 Je ir upper 
Also, in Scirpus Sect. Sylvatice, the stems have leaf-bearing nodes in a Be 
half.—E. filamentosum, Boeck. in Engler Jahrb. v. is Xerotes leucocephala, br. 
Sect. I. ERIOPHORUM proper. Leaves moderately long. Style long. 
1. E. Scheuchzeri, Hoppe Taschenb. 104; stoloniferous, sheath 27 
lacerate, stem bearing 1 spikelet, bracts 0, style 3-fid, nut smooth. / tatum 
lc. Fl. Germ. viii. 35, t. 685 ; Boeck. in Linnza, xxxvii. 92. E. capi 1 E 
Host Gram. Austr. i. 30, t. 38. E. vaginatum, Curtis Fl. Lond. n. t. de 
humile, Turez. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. (1838), 108. E. vaginatum, 
humile, F. Nylander in Act. Soc. Sc. Fenn. iii. 13. 
tog ine 
KASHMIR; alt. 13,000 ft., Lance; C. B. Clarke—Disrers, Arctic ind Alpin 
regions. in 
Stems 4-12 in. often covered some way up by sheaths. Leaves Lech . 
dwarf examples) shorter than stem, edges (in dried specimens) muc (les white, 
Spikelet X in., broad ellipscid. Glumes ovate, scarious, and black. Bris “lender; 
or ultimately brownish. Anthers not crested. Style longer than nut, very 
branches 3, long. Nut 2 glume, trigonous, cylindric ellipsoid or subovoic. 
+ jji. 22. 
Sect. II. Lacunoruorum, F. Nylander in Acta Soc. Sc. Fenn. n 
hort 
Leaves numerous, linear, long. “Glumes keeled, acute. Style sh 
(branches long). 
bel 
2. E. comosum, Wall. Cat. 3446 (eccl. var. B); stems robust, "3. d. 
compound or decompound, spikelets numerous rusty brown, ii 330; 
Nees in Wight Contrib. 110 (excl. var. B); Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. . Nees 
Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii, 98. E. arundinaceum, Wall. Od. il 1 234. 
l.c. Scirpus comosus, Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey and Wa an : 
S. elongatus, Ham. ex Don Prodr. 40. Trichophorum comosur 
l Vall, Cat. 
arundinaceum, Strachey Cat. Pl. Kumaon, 73.—Eriophorum, Wall 
3447, partim. 
Very common; from SIND and the Hrmataya, alt. 0—10,000 ft. t 
CHITTAGONG, and Burma.—Distris. Tonkin, China. Leaves often 
Glabrous. Rhizome hardly any. Stems 4-20 in., slender, tough k, ultimately 
overtopping stem, harsh, edges serrulate; lower sheaths chestnut-black, o: bracts 
often lacerate. Umbel 2-8 in. diam.; spikelets mostly solitary, often 5 
very long, often 8-12 in. Spikelets }-} in., narrowly ellipsoid, many" h-red crest: 
acute or obtuse, green on back.  4nfhers with lanceolate scabrous hig 
Style shorter than nut. Nut 1-3 glume, oblong-ellipsoid, trigonous, pen dpodiopog? 
brown-black.—In Wallich Cat. n. 3447 the woolly rhizome of fü db 
angustifolius, Trin. is mixed; hence Eriophorum cannabinum, Royle 4^ 
Spodiopogon angustifolius. j 
m 2-6 1D" 
3. E. microstachyum, Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxviii. 399; steg, A E 
slender with 1-3 subcapitate chestnut-brown spikelets, sty’ 
comosum, D nanum, Nees in Wight Contrib. 110. 
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