89. JUNCACE.E. 337 



1. ERIOCAULON Linn. Pipewort. 



1. E. septangulare (With.) ; scapes striated exceeding the cell- 

 ular compressed subulate glabrous 1., fl. 4 -cleft hairy at the end 

 as well as the scales, stam. 4, caps. 2-celled. E. B. 733. Roots 

 of many white jointed fibres. St. varying in height according 

 to the depth of the water, usually with 6 or 8 rarely 7 or 10 

 angles, each corresponding with a bundle of vessels surrounding 

 a central bundle. Fertile fl. 4-parted nearly to the base ; 2 late- 

 ral divisions keeled, compressed, obtuse, fringed, black. Each fl. 

 with a broad blunt black scale in front which is shorter and 

 broader than it. Peaty pools in Skye and a few of the neigh- 

 bouring islands. Cunnamara. P. VIII. S. I. 



Order LXXXIX. JUNCACE^l. 



Perianth more or less glumaceous, 6-parted. Stam. 6, on the 

 base of the segments ; or 3, opposite to the outer series. Anth. 

 2-celled. Ovary 1 3-celled, superior. Ovules 1, 3, or many 

 in each cell. Style 1, stigmas usually 3. Fr. capsular, 3-valved, 

 loculicidal, sometimes not bursting. Embryo subcylindrical, very 

 minute, within firm albumen, near the hilum. For fig. of the 

 genera see G. F. G. Monocot. ii. 28. 29. 30. 



1. NARTHECIUM. Perianth partly coloured, of 6 linear-lan- 

 ceolate persistent leaves. Filaments woolly . Style undivided. 

 Stigma simple, obtuse. Caps, pyramidal, 3-celled, 3-valved. 

 Placenta extending only a short distance up inner edge of dis- 

 sepiment. Seeds with a long Jiliform appendage at each end. 



2. JUNCUS. Perianth glumaceous, 6-leaved. Filaments gla- 

 brous. Style undivided. Stigmas 3, filiform. Caps. 3- 

 celled, 3-valved. Seeds attached to the inner edge of the 

 dissepiments. 



3. LUZULA. Caps. 1-celled, 3-valved, without dissepiments. 

 Seeds 3, at the base of the cell. Otherwise like Juncus. 



1 . NARTHECIUM Huds. Bog Asphodel. 



1. N. ossifragum (Huds.) ; 1. linear-swordshaped, pedicels 

 with 1 bract at the base and another above their middle, perianth 

 exceeding the stam. and much falling short of the caps. E. B 

 535. St. 78. 3. R. x. 421. St. 68 in. high, slightly leafy, 

 decumbent and rooting below. L. mostly in radical 2-ranked 

 tufts, half the height of the stem. Cluster continuous. Fh 

 bright yellow. Turfy bogs. P. VI. VII. 



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