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HE flowers confift only of filaments, three to each, which are fepatated from one another in 
the clufter by {mall, oblong leaves. The feed is fingle, and is furrounded with long threads. 
Linneus places this among the ¢riandria, and gives it the name eriophorum. 
tomentofum. 
1. Cotton Grafs, 
Linagroftis vulgaris, 
The root is compofed of numerous fibres, 
The leaves are grafly, narrow, and of a deep 
green. 
The ftalk is a foot and half high, of a purplifh 
brown at the bottom, and of a fine green up- 
wards. 
The flowers ftand at the top, and are {mall 
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Others call it gramert 
and inconfiderable ; but the filaments which fur- 
round the feeds are long, white, and cottony. 
It is common on bogs, and flowers in Au- 
guft. 
C. Bauhine calls it Gramen tomentofum panicula 
Sparfa. 
We have only one other fpecies of it. 
2. Fair’s-cail Ruth, Funcus Alpinus cum cauda 
leporina. This is a proper lixagroftis; the 
head truly woolly. 
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@ Bete flowers are male and female on the fame plant. 
bers ina catkin, which terminates the ftalk 
alfo of the catkin kind, which clofely furrounds it in a compact, firm fubftance, 
compofed each of three narrow leaves, with the fame number of filaments, 
in the upper catkin, The female, which are lodged in the compact fubftance, 
rous hairs of a pappous ftru€ture, and within thefe a rudiment of a fruit fixed on 
The male flowers are ranged in great nums 
3 and the female flowers are placed in a long body, 
The male flowers are 
which are clofely arranged. 
have for a cup nume- 
a filament. This ri- 
-pens into a fingle feed, and there crow numerous capillary filaments from that which fupports it, 
Thefe together make the thick fubftance called the cat’ s-tait, i 
Linnzus places this among the monecia triandria, 
1. Cat’s-tail. 
Typha vulvaris. 
The root creeps under the furface, and has 
many fibres. 
The leaves are long, and of a fine green. 
The ftalk is four feet high; and at its top 
ftand the female flowers in a very thick fpike, ter- 
minated by the male catkin; the whole of a fine 
velvety brown. 
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{tis common by waters, and flowers in Au- 
guft. 
C. Bauhine calls it Typha palufris major, 
We have two other {pecies. 
2. The middle Cat’s-tail, Typha paluftris media. 
The fpike is much fienderer than in the 
other. : 
3- The leaft Cat’s-tail, Typha paluftris minor. 
The fpike in this is thick ‘and fhort, and 
blackifh. 
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ee flowers are of two kinds, male and female, 
Iééted into a roundifh button, 
on the fame plant. .The male flowers are col. 
and confift each of a three-leaved cup, with three filaments, 
The female flowers are numerous, and fixed to.a round receptacle : 
thefe have no cup, .but confift 
-only of a rudiment ofa feed-veffel: thefe alfo are collected into rounded heads. 
1. Bur Reed. 
Se Sparganium vulgare. 
The root is creeping, and has many fibres. 
The leaves are of a bright green, 
The ftalk is two feet high, and divided into 
many branches. 
The flowers are whitith ; and the fruit is 
round, green, -hard, and echinated. 
It is common by waters, and flowers in 
June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Sparganium ramofunt. Others, 
Sparganium vulgare. 
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