TRIANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. 
sr 
!• E* culm terete, leafy ; leaves flat ; spikes cluster- virginicum. 
ed, nearly sessile, shorter than the involucrum. 
VahL 
Icon. Pluk. aim. t. 299. f. 4. 
Virginian Cotton-grass, 
Two feet high. Identified with facility, when in fruit, by 
its faint copper-coloured tufts of cotton. In boggy grounds, 
common. On the Woodlands, abundant. Perennial. July. 
2. E. culm leafy, terete ; leaves triquetrous, chan- angustifo- 
nelled, spikes pedunculated, seeds ovate. Roth, 
Wiild. 
Icon. Eng Bot. 564. 
Easily distinguished from No. 2. by its pedunculated spikes, 
and white cotton ; but extremely like E polystachium, speci- 
mens of which I have, labelled by Willdenow. I erroneously 
supposed this plant, the polystachium /3. of Michaux, and so 
called it in my Prodromus . Its triquetrous leaves, however, 
shew that it is the plant designated as E . angustifolium. In 
a deep spongy swamp or bog, surrounded with woods ; about 
a quarter of a mile south-east of Kaighn’s point, Jersey. Rare. 
Perennial. May, 
34. Fuirena, Gen. pi. 90. f Cyperoideas,) 
Spikelets composed of mucronate scales imbri- 
cated on all sides. Corolla 0. Seminal 
volucellum broad, chalF-like, scales cordate, 
(stipitate) often awned. Stigmata 2 and 3. 
\Seed triangular). Nutt. 
1. F. leaves narrow, lanceolate, short ; heads many, squaiTosa, 
(5 — 6) clustered ; valve of the corolla cordate, 
ovate, with short awns. Elliot- 
Rough-headed Fuirena, 
A beautiful grass, also quite local, though abundant where 
found. Grows in the same spot specified as containing Erio- 
phorum angustifolium. Perennial. \ July. 
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