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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. vai-ying 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^. 



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, 

 locuhcidal, sometimes not bursting. Embryo subcyhndrical, very 

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

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



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

 ceolate persistent leaves. Filaments woolly. Style imdivided . 

 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 filiform appendage at each end. 



2. JuNcus. Perianth glumaceous, G-leaveA. 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. 



I . Narthecixjm 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. 

 635. St. 78. 3. R. X. 421.— St. 6—8 in. high, slightly leafy, 

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

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

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



