4oS- 



XCYI. RESTIACE/E, 



[Srzocaulon. 



1; — 6 ; wlien 2 or 3, in a 4 



6-dmded ;7ma7^^7i, opposite the 

 inner segments of the latter. Ova?'?/ free, with 1 or uiov 



Ovules solitary, pendulous. 



r^ V - 1 -e cells. 



-^^^"^ capsular or nucumentaeeous 

 .S'ee& solitary, inverted. Emhryp lenticular, within the base of 

 a copious albumen.— llevh^ (andy in some species o/ Erioeaulon 

 marsh-plants) or under-shrubs. Leaves with parallel nerves or 

 veins simple^ narrow or 0. Stems nahed^ or more usually 'with 

 sheaths slit on one side. Ylovrev^ generally monoscious^ separated 

 hy scales or h-^acteas, 



F 



L Eriocaulon Linn. Pipewort, 



Flowers white or colourless, collected into a compact, scaly 

 head,— Bai^r en flowers in the centre. Perianth 4- '^ ' ~ 



6 -cleft, the 

 Stain, 4 

 Fertile floicers in the circumference. 

 I'ianth deeply 4-partite. 



2— 3-lobed, 2— 3-celIed. 



inner segments united nearly to their summit. 

 Anthe?\s 2-celled.— 



Style 1. Stigmas 2—3. 



-6. 

 Pe^ 



Capsule 

 ■Kamed from tjoior, wool, and mvXoc^ 



the stem ; in allusion to the downy stems or scapes of the species 

 first known. 



L E. septangiddre With, (jointed P.) ; scapes striate longer 

 than the cellular compressed subulate glabrous leaves, flovvers 

 4-cleft hairy at tlie extremities as well as the scales, stamens 4, 

 capsule 2-celled. E. B. t. 733. E. pellucidum 



Mich 



Lakes in mountainous countries, rare. 



of the neighbouring Islands of the Hebrides, 



8. 



In Skye, Coll, and a fevr 

 Cunnamara, N, W. of 

 Ireland, frequent. %. 8.— Roots creeping, and throwing out in- 

 numerable, white, curiously articulated Jibres, which penetrate deep 

 into the mud. Leaves pellucid, beautifully cellular, as is the scape. 

 Head of numerous, compact, minute flowers j each with an obovate, 

 membranous, concave scafe, nearly as long as itself. Two outer seg- 

 ments oi the perianth duplicato-caruiate, purplish; two zwwer white; 

 those of the cenirdl sterile flowers united for a great proportion of the 

 length, so as to be two-lipped at the extremity ; each lip bearing a 

 stamen^ and above, that a black sessile gland, and on either side, be- 

 tween the two lips, a stamen: in the centre between these are two 

 black, stalked glands (abortive styles?). In the /cr/zYe flowers, the 

 A segments are almost equally divided to their base, the inner havings 

 a black, sessile gland at the extremity. Pistil shortly stipitate, Ger- 

 men of 2 globose lobes. Style short. Stigmas 2, long, subulate.— 

 In the Flora Londlnensls n. s. t. 52. the sterile flower is not correctly 

 represented as to its usual appearance ; nor the situation o( the gland, 

 which is not below, but above, the point of insertion of the stameii. ■ 



^ Ori>. XCVII. JV:^CACEM Juss; 



F 



^ Perianth 6-partite, subglumaceous (usually scarious, some- 

 times herbaceous and coloured internally, but at length dry 





fi^i, nmtljj 

 'f^l% iojoir 



(Diplojed h 



■*lmn non 

 ^ Fbms sc 



continu 



\ 



* apiculate 



