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ERIOPHORUM gracile.
Slender Mountain Cotton-grass..
TRIANDR1A Monogynia.
G en, C har. Glumes chaffy, imbricated on all sides.
Cor. none. Seed l , invested with very lon g hairs.
Spec. C har. Stem rou n d ; compressed towards the
top. Leaves triangular, channelled in the upper
part. Spikes several, stalked; longer than the
bractea. Seeds linear.
S yn. Eriophorum gracile. Roth in Sims and Kon.
Ann, o f Rot. v. 1. 150.
F o u n d in boggy places in the micaceous soil of Ben
Lawers, by Mr. G. Don, who determined it to be the above
plant of Dr. Roth ; and though we have no farther means of
judging than by the work here quoted, we think there can be
little doubt.
Every part is much smaller and more delicate than the common
lowland E. angustifolium, t. 564. The leaves are triangular,
and scarcely channelled except towards the point. The
compression in the upper part of the stem, described by Dr.
Roth, our dried specimens are not in a state to exhibit, neither
are they forward enough to determine whether the seed be, as
he says, linear. But the short membranous floral leaf, so different
from those in t. 564, agrees with his description, and
the blueish colour of the flowering spikes resembles that of
E . vaginatum, t. 873. This new Eriophorum flowers late in
July, and has long, very slender, perennial roots.