330 Mr. J. E. BrcuEeNno’s Observations 
cylindrical, simple, leafy. Leaves linear-lanceolate, plane, 
nerved, acute; the margin, especially towards the base, clothed 
with very long, white, soft hairs : : radical leaves very numerous . 
and large. . Paniclé terminal, cymose, somewhat branched, di- 
varicate : ultimate branches reflected. Flowers solitary, termi- 
nal and lateral; lateral ones sessile. Bractes two to each flower, 
membranous, acute. Calya-leaflets lanceolate, acuminate, dark- 
brown, with a scariose margin. Filaments very short. Capsule 
one-celled, three-sided, inversely heart-shaped, obtuse, sud- 
denly narrower towards the middle. Seeds three, shining, cho- 
colate-coloured ; coruncula lengthened at the top, hooked, 
twisted, all three meeting at the insertion of the pistil. Vid,- 
Ta». IX. f. 1. 
The peculiar shape of the coruncula will at once enable the bo- 
tanist to distinguish this plant from all its congeners ; but when 
that cannot be seen, the divaricate and dark panicle will generally 
‘suffice to separate it from L. Forsteri; and the solitary flowers 
prevent it from being confounded with the rest of the British 
species. The marginal hairs. of this genus are singularly con- 
structed, being composed of a number of smaller fibres, which 
are jointed and twisted; so that upon the application of moisture, 
in a dry day, as in the case of the awns of Avene, they untwist 
themselves. . sns 
This plant has no known medicinal or agricultural use. Its 
dry tough herbage renders it unfit for cattle in general; though 
horses, goats, and sheep will eat it; more, however, from its being 
one of the earliest spring plants than from any other cause. 
9. Luzuta FORSTERI. 
LuzuLa panicula cymosá erectá, floribus solitariis, CADET acu- 
tis, seminis corunculà subrectà obtusa. 
L. foliis pilosis, corymbo subsimplici, pedunculis unifloris erectis, 
perigonii 
