PRICKLY TWIG RUSH 



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name is from its resemblance to flocks 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 of 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. 



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COTTON GRASS {Eriophorum angusti folium, Roth) 



ESSENTIAL SPECIFIC CHARACTERS: 



323. Eriophorum angusti folium, Roth. Stem rigid, rounded, leaves 

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

 bristles three times as long. 



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 

 only in Dorset, Isle of Wight, S. Hants; in the Thames only in 



