PI. end. ph. 9. CYPEllACEiE. 44.. Eriophorum. SI 



Lina^rostis q. Juncus Alpinus cutn cauda leporina Job. Bauhin, Rait 

 Syn. 436, 9.. 



Gramen juncoides lanatum alferutn Danicum, Park, 1271. 



Gramen juuceuin montaiium, subcaerulea spica, Cambro-britannicum, 

 Park. 1188. 



Linau;iostis, § 1, No. 1 , Micheli N. P. G. 54. 



Erioplioriifti vaginadiin, Lin. S. P. 76. 



Liiiagrostis vaginata, La Marck Fl. Fr.535. 



Erio|)horum cajspitosuin, Schrader Germ. 1, 150. 



Harestail rush. Moss crops. 



Turf bogs; perennial; 



Roots in dense tufts ; culms 1 foot high, hard, slender, 

 angles black and smooth ; sheaths long, tubular, leafless, 

 brown above, inflated, reticulate; /eawi upright, S-sided, 

 shorter than the culms. 



b. Spike many peduncled, paniculate ; hraciece 2, 

 leaJUke, unequal. 



S. Eriophorum lattfolium. Broadleaved cotiongrass^ 



Culms roundish; leaves flat; spike drooping; peduncles 

 rough. 



Linagrostis, ^ 2, No. 1, Micheli N. P. G. 54. 

 Eriophorum polystachjon, Lin. S. P. 76. 

 Linagrostis paniculata a, La Mmek Fl. Fr, 3,555. 

 Eriophorum vnlgare, Persoun Si,n. 70. 

 Eriophorum latifolium, Hoppe Hot. Tasch. 1800, 109. 



Bogs ; perennial ; April. 



Root fibrous, thick; culm erect, small, 2 inches high, 

 leafy, above rather 3-sided ; edge and ridge of the leaves 

 rough, apex 3-sided ; sheaths white, leafless ; panicle ter- 

 minal ; bractecB 2 or 4, green, shorter than the spike, black 

 and sheathing at bottom; peduncles upright, very short, 

 growing long and pendulous. 



^. ramosum. Peduncles branched. 



4. Eriophorum august ijhlium. Narrowleaved cottongrass. 

 Culm roundish ; leaves channelled, plaited ; spikes 

 drooping ; peduncles not branched, very smooth. 



Liiiao-rostis, Rail Syn. 435, 1. 



Gramen tomentarium, Ger. em. 29. 



Gramen junceum 1ana(um, vel Juncu? bombycinus vulgaris, P«rft. 1271* 



Linagrostis ^ 2, No. 3, Micheli N. P. G. 54. 



Eriophorum polystachion, Huds. Fl. ^ng. 21. 



Eriophorum angustifolium, Hoppe Bot. Tasch. 1800, 107. 



Eriophorum polystachion P, Willd. S. P. 1,313. 



Cotton grass. 



Turf bogs ; perennial ; April. 



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