XCVI. RESTIACE7E. 
459 
Eriocaulon.'] 
Mountains of England, Scotland, and Ireland, in boggy places; not 
rare. If.. 7,8. — Rhizome slightly creeping or fibrous. Stem 4 — (7 
inches high. Leaves mostly radical, in fascicles, linear, sword-shaped, 
equitant. Flowers small, pale yellowish-white. 
Ord. XCYI. KESTIACE2E R. Brown. 
Flowers capitate or spiked, bracteate, glumaceous, or white 
or colourless, 2 — 6-partite, seldom 0. Stamens hypogynous, 
1 — 6; when 2 or 3, in a 4 — 6-divided perianth, opposite the 
inner segments of the latter. Ovary free, with 1 or more cells. 
Ovules solitary, pendulous, orthotropal? Fruit capsular or 
uueumentaceous. Seeds solitary, inverted. Embryo lenticular, 
at the opposite end from the hilurn and outside the mealy 
albumen. Radicle inferior. — Herbs (and, in some species of 
Eriocaulon, marsh-plants ) or under-shrubs. Leaves with 
parallel nerves or veins simple, narrow or 0. Steins naked, or 
more usually with sheaths slit on one side. Flowers generally 
monoecious, separated by scales or bracteas. 
1. Eriocaulon Linn. Pipewort. 
Flowers white or colourless, collected into a compact, scaly 
head. — Barren flowers in the centre. Perianth 4 — G-cleft, the 
inner segments united nearly to their summit. Stam. 4—6. 
Anthers 2-celled. — Fertile flowers in the circumference. 
Perianth deeply 4-partite. Style 1 , very short. Stigmas 2 — 3, 
entire or bifid. Capsule 2 — 3-celled. Seeds with longitudinal 
rows of hairs. — Named from tpwv, wool, and Kuvhog, the 
stem ; in allusion to the downy stems or scapes of the species 
first known. 
1. E. septanguldre With, (jointed P.) ; scapes striate longer 
than the cellular compressed subulate glabrous leaves, flowers 
4-cleft hairy at the extremities as well as the scales, stamens 4, 
capsule 2-celled. E. B. t. 733. E. pellucidum Mich. 
Lakes in mountainous countries, rare. In Skye, Coll, and a few 
of the neighbouring islands of the Hebrides. Connemara, Ireland, 
frequent. If.. 8. — Rhizomes creeping. Leaves pellucid, cellular, 
as is the scape. Head of numerous, minute flowers ; each with an 
obovate, membranous, concave scale, nearly as long as itself. Two 
outer segments of the perianth duplicato-carinate, purplish; two inner 
white ; those of the central sterile flowers united for a great proportion 
of the length, so as to be two-lipped at the extremity; each lip bearing 
a stamen, and above that a black sessile gland, and on each side, be- 
tween the two lips, a stamen: in the centre between these are two 
black, stalked glands (abortive styles ?). In the fertile flowers, the 
4 segments are almost equally divided to their base, the inner having 
a black, sessile gland at the extremity. Pistil shortly stipitate. Ovary 
of 2 globose lobes. Stigmas 2, long, subulate. 
