258 ERIOCAULONE^— PIPEWOET TRIBE 



PiPEWORT (Eriocaulon). 



Jointed Pipewort {E. septanguldre). — Stem with several angles, much 

 longer than the flattened pointed leaves ; outer scales without flowers ; 

 smooth inner scales, and flowers fringed at the extremity ; perennial. This 

 is a rare and very singular aquatic, found in several lakes in the islands of 

 the Hebrides, and frequent at Connemara in Ireland. The slender stalk is 

 sometimes half a foot high, at others twice that height, varying according to 

 the depth of the water in which it grows ; and it bears, in September, 

 a solitary globular white head of little flowers. The leaves form a tuft 

 around its base, and are two or three inches long and awl-shaped, while the 

 roots consist of luimerous long white jointed fibres. The French call the Pipe- 

 wort La Joncinelle. 



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