PRICKLY TWIG RUSH 



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name is from its resemblance to llocks of wool. Sniddle is a Generic 

 name applied to sedges (generally and to allied plants. 



The hairs have been used for pillow-linings since Pliny's day, as 

 well as for cushions. The cotton is oi too brittle a texture to weave, 

 but it has been used for articles of dress in Germany, and for paper. 

 The country folk once used the cotton as wick for lamps. 



Cotton Grass (Eriophoniin anguslifoliumy Rolli) 



Essential Sitxii-ic Charactkrs: — 



323. Eriophoruvi angustifoliuvi, Roth. — Stem rigid, rounded, leaves 

 linear, flat, triangular above, peduncles smooth, spikelets corymbose 

 bristles three times as lone. 



Prickly Twig Rush (Cladium Mariscus, Br.) 



Though unknown in a fossil state in Great Britain, this sedge is 

 found in Prussia in the Birch, Pine, and Oak Zones, and in Gothland. 

 To-day it ranges in the N. Temperate Zones from Gothland southward, 

 N. Africa, Siberia. In Great Britain in the Peninsula province it 

 grows only in W. Cornwall and N. Somerset; in the Channel province 

 onlv in Di^rsft, Isk- of Wight, S. Hants; in the Thames onlv in 



