



TRIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Eriophorum. 71 



ERIO'PHORUM. Husks like chaff, tiled on every 



side : Bloss. none : Seeds encompassed by . 



very long wool-like hairs. 



E. Straw cylindrical, sheathed : spike skinny. vagina'tum. 



Dicks, h. s.-Curt. 219-/7. dan. 236-Scheuch. prod, and 

 app. 7. 1-7- B. ii. 514. 2-C. B. pr.23 ; th. 188~iW. . - 

 1272. 5-//. ox. viii. 9i «w 3, 6. Gr. junceum. ih. 6. 

 Gr.juncoid.-Park. 1272. 2-lb. l-Park. liSQ.l-Spiie 

 and parts of f rue t if. Scheuch. 7. 1-3. Mont. I. K. 



Root-leaves imperfectly 3-cornercd, sharp, with two of the 

 sides scored- Stem-leaves cylindrical. Sheaths inclosing the 

 straw ; the uppermost purple at the base. Stranv twice as long 

 as the leaves ; scored, cylindrical, but flat on one side. Spike 

 egg-shaped, tiled. Scales skinny ; brown : the lower ones bar- 

 ren ; the upper ones bearing woolly seeds. Linn. Spike single. 

 Straw bluntly 3-cornered. 



Hares-tail Rush. Moss Crops. Single-headed Cotton-grass. 



Bogs. [Near Lynn. Mr. Pitchford. — Very frequent in all 



th 



the northern counties. Mr. Woodward. — Ancott bog, near 

 Salop. Mr. Aikin. — Birmingham Heath, in the marshy valley 

 crossed by the foot road to Winson Green. In Cornwall on wet 

 moors, not uncommon.] P. Feb. — April. 



. 



E. Straws cylindrical; leaves flat : spikes on fruit-stalks, polysta'chion 



Dicks, b. s.~E. hot. 563-FailL 1(>. 2-Leers 1. 5. 



Spike smaller and more compact than in the next species ; , 

 and the leaves being flat as well as shorter, the plants may be 



_1 # • •ill 1 •#% f% • t * 1 M. ' 1 * 



£ Linn. 



guished 



poly 



particularly distinguished from the next, which is our 

 more common species, by Mr. Dickson. Bogs in Northamp- 

 tonshire ; near Dunstable ; in Yorkshire, Cumberland, and very 





commonly in Scotland. Dicks, in Linn. Tr. ii. 28*^ [In a bog 

 at the back of Invercauld house, and in various parts of the 





Highlands, but by no means a common plant. Mr 



May,j 





E. Straws cylindrical: leaves channelled and 3-cor-angustifo' 



nered : spikes on fruit- stalks. * hum. 



Dicks, h. s.-E. hot. o6i-Curt, 222-VaiU. 16. i~<7. ox. viii. 

 9. ro<w 3. l-Ger.27. 1-C. B. th. 6\-Trag. 683-Garid. 

 44-ZW. 562. 2-Ger. em. 2[)**~Barr. 12-J. J?, ii. »14#1 

 ~Parts of f rue t if Mont. (Lhiagrost.J K. L. I. 





