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86 . EllIOCAULACE.E. 87 . JUNCACE.E. 
Wahl., Koch, Gaud., Reich., Hoppe in St. 78. 8. — St. 4—8 in. 
high. L. swordshaped, about 2 in. long, in 2-ranked radical tufts. 
I'l. in a short dense s})ike, at first sessile, afterwards slightly 
stalked, with a bract at the base of the stalk but none under the 
periayith. This is the true plant of Hudson, and therefore his 
name must be retained. — Mountain bogs. P. VII. 
Order LXXXVI. ERIOCAULACE.E. 
FI. capitate, unisexual. Perianth glumaceous, 2 — 6-parted. 
Stain. 2 — 6, if in two rows the inner row most develojied. Anth. 
2- eelled. Ovary superior 2 — 3-celled. Ovules 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 extremity remote from the hilum. 
1. Eriocaulon. FI. 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- 
cuinference. Perigone deejily 4-parted. Stigmas 2 — 3. 
Caps. 2 — 3-lobed, 2 — 3-celled : cells 1 -seeded. 
1. Eriocaulon Xfww. 
1. E. septangulare (With.); scapes striated longer than the 
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. Hook. Fl. Lond. t. 52. — St. varying in height ac- 
cording to the dejith 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 comjiressed obtuse fringed black. Each 
fl. with a broad blunt black scale in front shorter and broader 
than the flower. Roots of numerous white jointed fibres. — 
Peaty lakes and pools in Skye and a few of the neighbouring 
islands; and in Cunnamara. P. VIII. S. I. 
Order LXXXVII. JUNCACE^. 
Perianth more or less glumaceous, 6-parted. Stam. 6, inserted 
into 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. capsulai', 
3- valved, loculicidal, sometimes not bursting. Embryo subcy- 
lindric.al, very minute, within firm albumen, near the hilum. 
1. Narthecium. Perianth partly coloured, of 6 linear-lan- 
ceolate persistent leaves. Filaments woolly . Style undivided. 
