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tib scabrous; slieatbs glabrous, closed, half the length of the jt>inh; 

 ptipule only a membranous margin, Vlumes lanceolate, acute, entire, 

 glabrous. Stmnens 3. Style 2 or 3 cleft. Seed 3 angled, compressed^ 

 surrounded by 6 bristles a little longer than tlie glumes* 



Grows ih damp and boggy soils. 

 Flowers July — November. 



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from Eriophorum. It 



Aris great affinity to some of the leafy stemmed species of Scirpus 

 and may with them yet constitute a distinct genus. No character ha» 

 Jiowever been found which will comprehend them all ; and Michauj 

 '^'as perhaps correct when he placed tliis plant among the Scirpi^ 



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ERIOPHORUM. Gen. pl. 95. 



Ghimce paleacese, un- I Glumes chafTy, imbn* 



^ique inibricatje. Coral- | cate on all sides. Corol 

 la 0. Semen i, lanalon- j la 0. Seed i, surrounded 

 gissiina ci actum. | witli very long wool, 



1. VliU.INICUM. 



E. culmo tereti, foli- I gtem terete, leafy; 



clus 



oso ; foliis iilanis : spicis | leaves flat ; spikes 

 congestis, subsessilibus, I tered, nearly sessiIe,s!ior' 



involucro brevioribus. | ter tlian tlie InvolucruP* 



Vahl. Enum. pl. ^. p. sy 0. 



Sp. pl. 1. p. 313. Mich. 1. p. 34, Walt. p. 71. 



J?oo' perennial. &rm 3— 4 feet high, glabrous. Leaves few M 

 car, slightly channelled, with the keel and margin scabrous; tlie 

 sheath at base closed. Fhti>.rs in an erect elobose head /"^'^^"f f 

 ^vith about three unequal leaves, longer than the head. Scales of *!■« 

 taiyx ovate, acute. (Stamens 2. Mich.) Seed compressed, oblong 



obovate, pointed with the persistent style, and surrounded by li*"^ 

 •-^10 lines Intio-. 



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^F«^^'8 in ^ogsj &c. Rare along the sea coast. Sent from St 



flowers August— September- 



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