Genus VIII Eriophorum Linnaeus, p. 164

Genus VIII Eriophorum Linnaeus
(Greek Erion, Wool or cotton; and phora to bear.)

Spikes many flowered, terminal when mature, clothed with long silky hairs; scales numerous, membraneous, imbricated all round; perianth (hairs) flat, numerous, much longer than the scales, persistent, collected into fasicles at the base; stamens 3; styles 3-cleft simple at the base, deciduous; achenium lenticular or triangular.-Culms mostly leafy.