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^nate mucronate. — E. B. 1612. — St. 3 — 4 feet high, round quite 
ip to the cluster. Upper bract patent or ascending ; lower very 
long, with a fiat open white channel. Gl. variegated with fus- 
cous and white, pilose. Anth. with a long entire point. — Sandy- 
oast of Somerset and Devon, rare. P. IX, E, 
7. Blts'itos Panz. 
' 1. B. comjyres'sm (Panz.) ; spikelets 6 — 8-flowered, outer gl. 
horter than the spikelet, bristles 3 — 6 strong persistent with 
ieclining teeth, 1. flat rough on the edges and keel. — Scii-ptis Sm., 
E. B. 791. St. 85. 6. E. viii. 293.— St. 0—8 in. high. Outer gl. 
jf lowest spikelet with a subulate leaflike point which often 
jvertops the spike. Glumes reddish brown, striate. Nut len- 
ticular, shortly stalked, crowned with the long persistent style, 
?hining. — Boggy pastures. P. VI. VH. E. S. I. 
2. B. riifus (Link) ; spikelets 2^4-flowered, outer gl. as long 
16 the spikelet, bristles 1 — 6 slender deciduous with patent or 
iscending teeth, 1. channeled not keeled smooth. — Scirpus Sm., 
E. B. 1010. St. 85. 7. E. viii. 293.— St. slender. Gl. dark brown, 
polished, not striate. Nut ovate, with a long beak and very 
short stalk, opaque. — Marshes near the sea on the Northern and 
Western coasts. P. YR. E. S. I. 
8. Erioph'oeum Linn. Cotton-grass. 
* Bristles 4 — 6, at length crisped. Spike solitary. 
1. U. alpinum (L.) ; st. triquetrous rough, 1. very short, spike 
Mong.—B. B. 311 (excl. the leafy shoot). E. viii. 288. St. 10. 
— A slender elegant plant. — Moss of Restenet, Forfar (but now 
lost through drainage). 3Ir. Brown. Durness, Sutherlandshire. 
Prof . Balfour. P. VI. S. 
** Bristles very many, not crisped. — f Spike solitary, 
2. E. vagindtum (L.); st. triangidar above round below, spike 
oblong, md ohovate, 1. long setaceous triquetrous-channeled, 
upper sheath inflated leafless.— B. 873. R. vii. 289. — Bogs 
and moors. P. V. Hare's-tail Cotton-grass. E. S. I. 
\_E. capitdtum (Sm.); "st. entirely roimd with a swelling 
sheath, spike roundish, glumes membranous." — E. B. 2387. — Ben 
Lawers, near almost perpetual snow. Mr. G. Don. Mr". Don's 
authentic specimen (Herb. Hook.) resembles E. capitatum, but 
the upper part of its st. is triangular. P. VIH.] S. 
tt Spikes more than one. 
3. E. atigusti folium (Roth) ; st. nearly round, peduncles smooth, 
I. linear channeled their upper half triangular, nut elliptic-acu- 
minate or obovate triquetrous. — E. B. 564. E. viii. 291. — About 
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