on the Genus Juncus of Linneus. 835 
L. multiflora. Flor. Fran. v. 306. 
Juncus erectus. Pers. Enchirid. i. 386. 
J. liniger. With. Mh ed. 436. — 
J. campestris y. Sp. Pl. 468. 
Gramen hirsutum elatius, panicula juncea compacta, Raii Syn. 
416. 
G. hirsutum capitulo globoso. Park. 1186.9. Moris. s. viii. t. 9. 
f. sinist. 
G. capitulis globosis. Ger. 16. 1. Ger. Em. 18.3. 
Angl. Smarz Wooprusu. Hairy Field Rush. Field Rush. 
-Small Hairy Wood-Grass. Hairy Grass. 8 Globe-headed Rush. 
. Hairy Grass, with a compact rush-like pani: Round-headed 
. Silver Grass. 
Habitat in pascuis siccioribus: f in andis: 
Peren, April, May. 
Root fibrous, creeping. Stem four inches or more high, simple, 
erect, leafy. Leaves linear, plane, five-nerved, hairy at the 
margin; point rigid. Flowers in spikes, sessile, ten or twelve 
together; heads ovate, erect, at last nodding; the lowermost 
sessile, the rest pedunculated. Bractes three or four at the foot 
of each flower, membranous, fringed, shining, giving a silvery 
appearance to the flowers. Calyz-leaflets lanceolate, acumi- 
nate, shining, keeled. Filaments very short. Capsule obovate, 
obtuse, three-sided. Seeds reniform, roughish, ash-coloured 
green, opake; coruncula enlarged at the bottom of the seed, 
and attaching it to the receptacle. Vid. Tan. IX. fig. 4 
8. Taller, leaves longer, panicle composed either of many heads 
clustered into one, or several little ovate heads of flowers stand- 
ing on long peduncles in somewhat of an umbellate form. 
Though the real Luzula campestris is not likely to be mistaken, 
if its spiked flowers and obtuse —— be attended to, yet it va- 
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