366 91. ERIOCATILACEa:, 



Lej.) sutsessile in a rounded lobed head, or a few stalked. — 

 Wet and turfy places. P. VI. E. S. I. 



6. L. spicdta (DC): 1. narrow slightly channelled hairy, 

 panicle oblong lobed nodding spikelike, clusters falling short of 

 their tracts, segments of perianth narrow acuminate bristle- 

 pointed, filaments half as long as the anthers, caps, blunt api- 

 culate, seeds oblong with a very slight basal appendage. — E. B. 

 1176. — St. 3 — 12 in. high. L. short, slender. Spike \ — 1 in. 

 long, nodding:. Partial bracts tapering, bristle-pointed. — Moun- 

 tains. P. VII. E. S. 



7. i. arcfudta (Hook.) ; I. channelled slightly hairy, panicle 

 suhumbellate of few 8 — 5-flowered clusters mi long drooping pe- 

 duncles^ segments of perianth broadly-lanceolate bristle-pointed, 

 filaments as long as the anthers, caps, roundish-ovate, seeds ob- 

 long blunt or apiculate scarcely appendaged below. — E. B. S. 

 2688. — St. slender, 2 — 5 in. long. L. short, curved, narrowly 

 linear. Panicle of 3 — 5 small clusters, one nearly sessile, the 

 others on long deflexed stalks. — Highest summits of the Caim- 

 gorum and Sutherland Mountains. P. VII. ? S. 



Order XCI. EEIOCAULACE./E. 



Fl. capitate, unisexual. Perianth very delicate, 2 — 6-parted. 

 Stam. 2 — 6, if in 2 rows the inner row most developed. Anth. 

 2-celled. Ovary superior, 2 — 3-celled. Ovules solitary, pen- 

 dulous. Dehiscence of caps. locuHcidal. Seeds coated with 

 wings or rows of hairs. Embryo lenticular, on the outside of 

 farinaceous albumen, at the end remote fcom the hile. 



1. Eeiocaulon. PI. in a compact scaly head. Barren fl. in 

 the centre. Perianth 4 — 6-fid, the inner segments united 

 nearly to their top. Stam. 4—6. — ^Fertile fl. in the cir-- 

 cumference. Perianth deeply 4-parted. Stigmas 2 — 3. 

 Caps. 2 — 3-lobed, 2 — 3-ceIled ; cells 1-seeded. 



1. Eeiocatt'ion Linn. Pipewort. 



1. E. septanguUre (With.) ; scapes striate exceeding the cel- 

 lular 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, blunt, fringed, black. Each fl. 

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



