PIPEWORT FAMILY. 



I. 



Eriocaulon flavidulum Fl. Bor. Am. 2. 166. 1803. 

 Paepalanthus flavidnlus Kunth, Enum. 3: 533. 1841. 

 Dupatya fiavidula Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 745. 1891. 



Dupatya flavidula (Michx.) Kuntze. Dupotym. (Fig. got.) 





Leaves 3-5-nerved, i '-a" long, awl-shaped, woolly 

 at the base, glabrous or sparingly pubescent above. 

 Scapes numerous, 5-anglcd, pubescent, 4'- 12' high; 

 sheaths longer than the leaves, slightly inflated 

 above, pubescent; involucral bracts straw-colored, 

 glabrous, obtuse, oval, shining, somewhat pubes- 

 cent at the base; receptacles glabrous or slightly 

 pubescent; scales very thin, scarious-white, linear, 

 slightly pubescent, about as long as the flower*; 

 flowers about i%" high; perianth 6-parted; outer 

 perianth of the staminate flowers stalked, woolly, 

 the inner a campanulate tube with 3 stamens; pis- 

 tillate flowers with both sets of perianth-segments 

 distinct, the inner much narrower than the outer; 

 style 3-parted ; stigmas 3. 



In moist pine barrens, southern Virginia to Florida. 

 March-July. 



3. LACHNOCAULON Kunth. Kmim. 3: ; ji. 



Tufted herbs with the habit of Eriocaulon, the leaves linear. Scape cveral -angled, 

 sheathed at the base by an entire bract about as long as the leaves; head* globoae. Recep- 

 tacle pilose. Flowers androgynous. Perianth of 3 segments. Staminale flower* with 3 

 stamens united below into a thickened tube which is coalcsccnt with a body, rartoo* 



irded as a corolla or as a rudimentary pistil, bearing at its apex 3 fitnbhate or entire lobe* 

 alternate with the filaments; anthers i-celled, minute. Pistillate flower* with a teacite j- 

 celled, 3-ovuled ovary surrounded by copious woolly hairs at the base; style* united below. 

 spreading above into 3 divisions which are 2-parted, there being thus 6 stigma*. (Greek. 

 referring to the woolly scapes of some species.] 



Four known species, natives of the southern United .v 

 i. Lachnocaulon anceps (Walt.) Moron^. Hairy IiiK-\\irt 



Eri, l Car. &. 



iiH<>inln J/i;4. i n Kunth. Knnm j 



1841. 

 Ad, //;/.., .////.-it amtfit Murung. Bull Tor 



18:360. 1891. 



Leaves glabrous or spariagly 

 i'-3' long, tapering to an obtnac 

 point. Scape* slender. '-*/ Ul: 

 angled, clothed with long oft apprwatd p- 

 w.inlly jM.inted hair*; beath cijaallinf or 

 shiirter than the leave*; heads glob.- 

 3" in diameter; involucral bract* oralc r 

 oblong, shorter than the flower*. QMtalU 

 brown; flowers about i"hi|(b; soOesbnmn. 

 spatulate, surrounded at the ba*e bjr the yl- 

 silky hair* of the receptacle and 

 white-bearded at the apex; perianth of the 

 staminate flowers short -stalked. pdbcKr 

 the base, woolly and fimbnate at tbc wmmit 

 segments of the pistillate perianth 

 glabrous, obtuse; ovary densely 

 around the base; eed rtrongly ribbed. 



In moist pine barrens, Virginia to Florida. The whitr 

 staminate ones impart a mixed gray and dark appearanc 



