ascending, about 1 mm. thick; leaves few, only a few or none clustered basally; 

 blades membranous, flat, flaccid, 5-10 (-20) cm. long, 2-6 mm. broad, long- 

 tapered, long-pilose marginally especially near juncture with sheath; bract shorter 

 than the inflorescence, leaflike; inflorescence terminal, 3-6 cm. long, of 5 to 10 

 (to 13) branches which are mostly simple (a few of the longer ones with sub- 

 sidiary branches) and ascending; bractlets 3 beneath each flower (2 at the base of 

 the calyx and one at the base of the extremely short pedicel); flowers in 20- to 40- 

 flowered ovoid-cylindric spikes or racemes which are 6-10 mm. long and 4-6 mm. 

 thick (rarely almost round and capitate); sepals 3, 2.3-2.5 mm. long, ovate- 

 deltoid, membranous and brownish medially, broadly hyaline marginally, acute; 

 petals similar to sepals but only 1.9-2.2 mm. long; stamens 6, shorter than the 

 sepals; style at anthesis about 0.5 mm. long, with 3 branches 1-1.5 mm. long 

 (postanthetically deciduous); capsule nearly globose to broadly obovoid, about 

 equaling the sepals, terminally truncate and minutely apiculate. completely and 

 promptly deciduous; seeds 3. L. campestris L. var. bulbosa Wood, L. multiflora 

 (Retz.) Lej. var. bulbosa (Wood) Herm. 



Locally frequent in forested sandy soils and on grassy seepage banks in Okla. 

 [Waterfall) and e. Tex., rare to s.e. Tex., spring; Coastal States, Mass. to Tex., 

 inland to Ind., 111., Mo., Kan. and Okla. 



2. Luzula parviflora (Ehrh.) Desv. Fig. 332. 



Stems stoloniferous, single or few in a tuft, erect, 1-3 dm. high. 2- to 5-leaved; 

 leaves glabrous, their blades 3-10 mm. wide, tapering to a sharp or blunt apex; 

 inflorescence a nodding decompound panicle, commonly 6-10 cm. long; lowest 

 bract foliose, one fourth to one half the length of the panicle; flowers borne singly 

 or sometimes 2 or 3 together, on very slender pedicels; bractlets ovate, entire or 

 lacerate; perianth 2-2.5 mm. long, the segments lanceolate, acute, green or more 

 or less tinged with brown; capsule ovoid, slightly exceeding the perianth, green 

 or brownish; seeds ellipsoid, brown. 



Moist woods and meadows, from coastal rain-forest to alpine slopes, seepage 

 banks, marshes and wet meadows, in N.M. (Mora, San Miguel and Taos cos.) 

 and Ariz. (Coconino and Apache cos.), Lab. and Nfld. to Alas., s. to N.Y., Minn., 

 N.M., Ariz, and s. Calif.; Greenl.; Euras. 



3. Luzula campestris (L.) DC. var. multiflora (Ehrh.) Celak. 



Stems loosely cespitose, 2-5 dm. tall; basal leaves several, cauline leaves usually 

 pilose, 2 to 4, flat, except toward the callous, blunt tip, 2-6 mm. wide; inflores- 

 cence usually with a few slender peduncles and 1 or more sessile, capitate or 

 short-cylindric spikes; bracts usually scarious toward the acute apex; perianth seg- 

 ments 2-3.5 mm. long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate; capsule obovoid, mucronulate, 

 shorter than the perianth; seeds ellipsoid. 1-1.4 mm. long, with a prominent basal, 

 white, spongy cellular appendage, up to half the length of the body of the seed. 



Dry or moist woodlands, streambanks, creek bottoms and wet meadows in N.M. 

 (Taos Co.) and Ariz. (Pima Co.). 



We have apparently only the var. multiflora in our region. The species with 

 many varieties is widespread in North America except the lower central and 

 southern United States. 



Fam. 35. IJliaceae Juss. Lily Family 



Mostly perennial herbs, infrequently or only occasionally woody; rootstock 

 a rhizome, bulb, corm or tuber; stems erect or climbing, often modified into 

 fleshy subterranean storage organs or cladophylls; leaves basal or cauline, 

 alternate or whorled, mostly lamellate but sometimes reduced to scales or sheaths, 



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