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1. E. culm terete, leafy ; leaves flat ; spikes cluster- vir^uimm. 

 ed, nearlv sessile, shorter than the involucruni. 

 Vahl. 

 Icon. Pluk. aim. t. 299. f. 4. 



Virginian Cotton-gross. 



Two feet high. Identified with facility, when in fruit, by 

 its faint copper-coloured tufts of cotton. In boggy grounds, 

 common. On the Woodlands, abundant. Perennial. July. 



E. culm leafy, terete ; leaves triquetrous, chan- angujtifo- 

 mlled, spikes pedunculated, seeds ovate. Rot/i. Uura ' 

 Wiild. 



Icon. Eng Bot. 564. 



Easily distinguished from No. 2. by its pedunculated spikes, 

 and white cotton ; but extremely like E. polystaclnum, speci- 

 mens of which I have, labelled by Willdenow. I erroneously 

 sunposed this plant, the pohstachium |3. of Michaux, and so 

 called it in my Frodromus. Its triquetrous leaves, howe\er, 

 shew that it is the plant designated as E. angustifohum. In 

 a deep spongv swamp or bog, surrounded with woods ; about 

 a quarter of a mile south-east of Kaighn's point, Jersey. Rare. 

 Perennial. May. 



}. Fiirexa, Gen. pi. 90. ( Cypcroidex. ) 



SpikeleU composed of mucronate scales imbri- 



tcd on all sides. Corolla 0. Seminal m- 



lucellum broad, chaff-like, scales cordate, 



fstipitate) often awncd. Stigmata 2 and 3. 



(Seed triangular). Nutt, 



1. F. 'eaves narrow, lanceolate, short ; heads many, squarroia. 

 (5 — 6) clustered ; valve of the corolla cordate, 

 ovate, with short awns. Elliot. 



R o ugh ■ headed Fuirena, 



A beautiful grass, also quite local, though abundant where 

 found. G .v-i the sa-ne spot specific- i as containing Erio- 

 phorum angustitoKum. Perennial. ? Jul/. 



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