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dark green, smooth. Fl. several, bright purple, rising from the 
root with very long tubes, the germen remaining under ground 
and appearing in the spring with the leaves. — Meadows. P. IX. 
X. Meadow Saffron. 
2. Tofieldia Huds. 
1. T. palustris (Huds.) ; pedicels naked at the top but with a 
3-lobed bract at the base. — E. B. 536 (not good). T. borealis 
Wahl., Koch, Gaud., Reich., Hoppe in St. 78. 8— St. 4—8 in. 
high, 1. swordshaped, about 2 in. long, in 2-ranked radical tufts. 
Fl. in a short dense spike, at first sessile, afterwards slightly- 
stalked, with a bract at the base of the stalk but none under the 
perianth. This is the true plant of Hudson, and therefore his 
name must be retained. — Mountain bogs. P. VII. 
Order LXXXV. RESTIACEiE. 
Perianth more or less glumaceous, 2 — 6-parted, rarely 0. 
Stam. " perigynous," 1 — 6, when half as numerous as the seg- 
ments of the perianth they are opposite to the inner divisions. 
Anth. usually 1-celled. Ovary superior with 1 or more cells. 
Ovules solitary, pendulous. Fr. capsular or nucumentaceous. 
Embryo lenticular, on the outside of farinaceous albumen, at the 
extremity remote from the hilum. 
1. Eriocaulon. Fl. in a compact scaly head. Barren fl. 
in the centre. Perianth 4 — 6-fid, the inner segments united 
nearly to the summit. Stam. 4 — 6. Fertile fl. in the cir- 
cumference. Perigone deeply 4-parted. Stigmas 2 — 3. 
Caps. 2 — 3-lobed, 2 — 3-celled : cells 1-seeded. 
1. Eriocaulon Linn. 
1. E. septangulare (With.); "scapes striated longer than 
cellular compressed subulate glabrous 1., fl. 4-cleft hairy at the 
extremities as well as the scales, stam. 4, caps. 2-celled." Hook. 
— E. B. 733. Fl. Lond. n. s. t. 52.— St. varying in height ac- 
cording to the depth of the water, usually with 6 or 8 rarely 7 or 
10 angles each corresponding with a bundle of vessels surround- 
ing a central bundle. Fertile fl. 4-parted nearly to the base, 2 
lateral divisions keeled compressed obtuse fringed black. Each 
fl. with a broad blunt black scale in front shorter and broader 
than the flower. Roots of numerous white articulated fibres. — 
Peaty lakes and pools in Skye and a few of the neighbouring 
islands ; and in Cunnamara. P. VIII. S. I. 
