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Quite dwarf, with several clusters of few flowers 

 each. 



Alpine or subalpine, dwarf ; root producing offshoots ; 

 leaves subulate-linear, somewhat jointed; flower- clusters 

 in a simple terminal cyme or reduced to three or two or 

 even one ; stamens usually six ; filaments longer than the 

 anthers ; fruit three-celled, rather longer than the sepals 

 and petals, gradually much attenuated towards the sum- 

 mit ; seeds without any appendage. J. pusillus. 



EB.IOCA.ULE AE. 



ERIOCAULOK. 



1905. Pistillate flowers provided with sepals and petals. 



Dwarf ; stems undivided ; leaves all basal, soft, short, 

 broad-linear, pointed, the cellules of their tissue very 

 conspicuous ; headlets globular ; involucrating bracts 

 almost ovate, quite small ; floral bracts ciliolated ; sepals 

 and petals beset with hairlets at the summit, there bear- 

 ing a glandule and often dark -colored ; stamens six ; 

 stigmas three ; fruit minute, three-celled ; seeds normally 

 three. . Smithii. 



Pistillate flowers without sepals and petals. 



Quite dwarf ; stems slender, undivided ; leaves all basal, 

 soft, short, broad-linear, pointed, the cellules of their tissue 

 very conspicuous ; headlets very small, globular ; involu- 

 crating bracts almost lanceolar, rather dark-colored; 

 sepals of the staminate flowers coherent at the base ; 

 petals connate into a tube, glabrous, bearing a glandule 

 at the summit ; stamens six ; stigmas three ; fruit minute, 

 three-celled ; seeds normally three. 



E. electrospermum. 



CE A. E. 



TH.ITHTTRXA. 



1906. Delicate, almost transparent, often of reddish hue. 



Glabrous ; often submerged ; leaves all basal, very narrowly 

 linear, pointed ; headlets of flowers singly terminal ; 

 involucral bracts often lanceolar ; flowers centrifugal- 

 developed ; anther ellipsoid ; style none ; stigmas capil- 

 lary ; fruit very minute, trigonous-ovate, usually one- 

 seeded, its three or occasionally two valves separating 

 from the narrow interstices. T. submersa. 



