by a somewhat umbellate panicle of four heads of flowers,
having the peduncles usually recurved. The bracteas are
membranous and fringed with long wavy hairs, especially
at the point. The leaves of the perianth are broadly lanceolate,
acuminate, of a nearly uniform, brown colour,
longer than the capsule, around which they persist. Seeds
3, obovate, destitute of crests.
The flowering season of this plant is August: but so
severe is the climate at the elevation at which it grows (upwards
of 4000 feet above the level of the sea), that it does
not always come to perfection : and in the month of August,
1S30, owing to the unusual quantity of snow which
fell during the summer months, scarcely a perfect blossom
appeared to have been formed.—W. J. H.
