TRIANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Eriophorum. 69 



Leaves many, smooth, broad and flat, with a narrow acute keel ; 

 their points suddenly contracted, triangular, sharp. Spikes seve- 

 ral, sessile or stalked, ovate, grey, with leafy, pointed, sheathing 

 bracteas ,• their stalks striated, but not downy. Glumes filmy, 

 bluntish, slightly keeled. Anth. linear, yellow. Stigm. 3, very 

 slender. Hairs of the seed about thrice as long as the spikes, 

 which become pendulous after flowering. 



5. E. pubescens. Downy-stalked Cotton-grass. ■ 

 Stem angular upwards. Leaves flat, lanceolate, with a tri- 

 angular point. Stalks of the spikes downy. Hairs twice 

 the length of the spike. 



E. angustifolium. Poit. # Turp. Par. t.ol. 



Gnaphalion. Trag. Hist. 683./. 3 ? 



In bogs and marshes. 



At Frogden, Scotland. Mr. Arthur Bruce. On Cherry Hinton 

 moor, Cambridgeshire, always growing on grassy ground, not 

 in the bogs. Rev. J. Holme. 



Perennial. April, May ? 



Smaller than the last, with which the leaves accord, except in 

 being narrower, and somewhat shorter. The stem is triangular 

 as low as the insertion of the first, or even second, leaf, but, as 

 far as can be judged from dried specimens, appears to be cylin- 

 drical at the bottom. Spikes from 2 to 8 or 9, their stalks some- 

 what angular, compressed and striated, clothed with fine silky 

 hairs. Glumes elliptical, flat, brownish-black, membranous, 

 single-ribbed, except the outermost, which has sometimes 3 ribs. 

 Stigmas 3, reddish. Seed obovate, triangular, tawny. Hairs 

 scarcely half the length of the last, very white and silky, ele- 

 gantly contrasted with the dark glumes, which they do not 

 conceal. 



The authors of the splendid, but unfortunately abortive, Flora 

 Parisiensis have mistaken this for the E. angustifolium of other 

 writers, which is their E. Vaillantii. Schrader, by his character 

 of the rough Jlower-stalks, and angular stem, appears to have 

 confounded our plant with the polystachion, his latifolium. 



6. E. angustifolium. Common Cotton-grass. 

 Stem nearly round. Leaves linear, triangular ; channelled 



towards the base. Stalks of the spikes smooth. Hairs 



four times the length of the spike. 

 E. angustifolium. Roth Germ. v. 2. 63. Dicks. Tr. of Linn. Soc. 



r.2.289. Willd. v. \.3\3. Vahl Enum. v. 2. 389. Ft. Br. 59. 



Engl. Bot. v. 8. t. 564. Graves Br. Gr. t. 4. With. 72. Hook. 



Scot. 21. Schrad. Germ. v. 1 . 153. Ft. Dan. t. 1442. 

 E. polystachion. Huds. 21. Curt. Lond.fasc. 4. t. 9. 

 E. Vaillantii. Poit, $ Turp. Par, t. 52. 



