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6. L. spicnia (DC.); 1. narrow slightly channelled hairy, 
panicle oblona lohed nodding spikelikc, clusters falling short 
of their bracts, per.-segm. narrow acuminate bristle-pointed, 
filaments half as long as the anthers, caps, blunt apiculate, 
seeds oblong with a very slight basal appendage. — £. B. 1176. — 
Nr. 3 — 12 in. high. L. short slender. Spike A — 1 in. long, 
iKulding. Partial bracts tapering, bristle-pointed. — Mountains. 
V. VII. E. S. 
7. L. arcmita (Wahl.) ; 1. channelled slightly hairy, panicle 
suhumhellate of few 3 — 5-flowered clusters on long droop- 
ing peduncles, per.-segm. broadly-lanceolate bristle-pointed, 
filaments as long as the anthers, caps, roundish-ovate, seeds 
oblong blunt or apiculate scarcely appendaged below. — E. B. S. 
26S8. — St. slender, 2 — 5 in. long. L. short, curved, narrowh" 
linear. Panicle of 3 — 5 small clusters, one nearly sessile, the 
others on long deHexed stalks. — Highest summits of the Cairn- 
gorm and Sutherland Mountains. P. VII. ? S. 
L. nemor<,sa (E. Jley.), L. albida ^DC) with doubly compound pan., clusters of 
2 — i whitish or pinkish fl., bracts about equalling pan., anth. subsessile; and 
L, jitVeo (DC.) with less compound pan., clusters of numerous much larger pure 
white, fl., bracts exceeding pan. and filaments about equalling anth., have been 
found in several places. 1 
Order XCI. ERIOCAULACE.E. 
Fl. capitate, unisexual. Perianth very delicate, 2 — 6-parted. 
Stam. 2 — 6, if in 2 rows the inner row more developed. Anth. 
2-celled. Ovary superior, 2 — 3-celled. Ovi-lss solitary, pen- 
dulous. Dehiscence of caps, loculicidal. Seeds coated with 
wings or rows of hairs. Embryo lenticular, on the outside of 
farinaceous albumen, at the end remote from the hile. 
1. Eeiocaulon. Fl. 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 A. in the cir- 
cumference. Perianth deeply 4-parted. Stigmas 2—3. 
Caps. 2 — 3-lobed, 2— 3-celled ; cells 1-seeded. 
1. Eriocau'lon Linn. Pipewort. 
1. E. septanguldre (With.) ; scapes 6 — 8-striate exceeding 
the cellular compressed subulate glabrous 1., 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. Fertile fi. 4-parted nearly 
