on the Genus Juncus of Linneus. $37 
Juncus spicatus, foliis planis subpilosis, spica glomerato-racemosa 
basi divisa nutante, petalis longitudine capsule. Rost. Mono- 
graph. 46. : | 
J. spicatus, foliis planis, spicd racemosa nutante basi composita, 
capsulis acutis. Flor. Brit. 386. Eng. Bot. xvii. 1170. 
J. spicatus, foliis planis, spica racemosa nutante. Sp. Pl. 469. 
Fl. Lap. t. 10. f. 4. Flor. Dan. 270. Huds. 650. With. 350. 
Angl. Seiren Woopnusm. Spiked Rush. Alpine nodding 
Rush. i 
Habitat in alpibus Borealibus. 
Peren. July. | wi 
Root fibrous, tufted. Stem simple, six or eight inches high, slen- 
der, leafy. Leaves linear, channelled, hairy at the base; stem- 
leaves convolute or subulate. Spike terminal, nodding, cylin- 
drical, oblong, obtuse ; spikelets sessile, many-flowered, brac- 
teated. Bractes pale, lanceolate, laciniated. Calya-leafletslan- : 
_ceolate, acuminate. Capsule pointed, one-celled, three-sided. 
_ This plant approaches. ‘nearer to the Junci than any of the rest 
of the Luzule here described. Its leaves are not so flat or hairy 
as most of the rest of the genus, and the capsule shows the rudi- 
ments of dissepiments. It is not likely to be confounded with 
any other plant, with the exception, perhaps, of L. pediformis, 
which is much larger, and has a pointed capsule. It is very rare 
with us, occurring chiefly in Scotland. on the summits of the highest 
mountains. I found a single s specimen in the herbarium of my” 
friend Joseph Woods, Esq. F. L.S., gathered by him on Fairfield, 
near Ambleside; and this is the only instance that has come to 
my knowledge of its being found in England. 
XVIII. De- 
