182 HEXANDRIA-MONOGYNIA. Luciohi. 



J. campestris multiflorus. Ehrh. Calam. 127 ? 



J. liniger. Purt. siippl. 352. t. 9. 



Gramen hirsutum elatius,paniculajunceacompacta. Rail Syn. 416. 



G.hirsutum, capitulogloboso. Bauh.Pin.7. Theatr. 104./. Moris, 

 sect. 8. t. d.jirstjig. on the left. 



G. Luzulse minus. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 493. f. 



G. capitulis globosis. Ger. Em. 18./. 



In marshy turfy ground, not uncommon. 



Perennial. June. 



The late Mr. Teesdale proved this plant to be unaltered by culti- 

 vation ; and its natural place of growth, size, and whole ap- 

 pearance, have always seemed so strongly to indicate a distinct 

 species from the common little L. campestris, that I am induced 

 at length to concur with those botanists who have separated 

 them. L. congesta has very erect stems, 18 inches high. The 

 leaves are much narrower than the last, with a minute callous 

 roughness all along their edges, scarcely discernible in that. The 

 quantity of white hairs varies in both. The panicle of the pre- 

 sent is certainly very different, consisting usually of 7 or 8, 

 roundish or ovate, dense obtuse clusters or spikes, the first almost 

 sessile, the rest on long, partly spreading, stalks. Calyx rather 

 paler, more taper-pointed, scarcely extending beyond the cap- 

 sule, which is of a rather narrower obovate form. 



The figures of the old authors represent too small a number o{ clus- 

 ters. Mr. Purton's plate is excellent. The plant figured in Linn, 

 Fl. Lapp. t. 10. f. 2, the original specimen of which is in the Lin- 

 naean herbarium, has paler, smaller, more oblong spikes, rather 

 than clusters; a more pointed calyx; narrower, less hairy, though 

 rough-edged, leaves ; and according to Dr. Wahlenberg, who 

 calls it Juncus pallescens, in his Fl. Lapp. 87, a weak, compressed, 

 nearly decumbent, stem. There is another species, closely al- 

 lied to these, in Virginia, whose leaves, nearly as tall as the stem, 

 are not so properly rough-edged as minutely and remotely ser- 

 rated. 



6. L. spicata. Spiked Wood-rush. 



Panicle dense, compound, oblong, lobed, drooping. Cap- 

 sule elliptical, with a small point. Crest of the seeds ob- 

 solete. Stem-leaves channelled. 



Luzula spicata. Bicheno Tr. of L. Soc. v. 1 2. 337. Hook. Scot. 111. 

 Juncus spicatus. Linn. Sp. PI. 469. Fl.Lapp. n. 125. t. 10./. 4. 



Willd. V. 2. 222. Fl. Br. 386. Eiigl. Bot. v. 17. t. 1 176. Dicks. 



Dr. PI. 33. H. Sice. fuse. 15.11. Fl. Dan. t. 270. Wahlenb. 



Lapp. 88. 

 J. n. 1330 y, erroneously marked /3. Hall. Hist, v, 2. 174. 

 Juncoides n. 7. Mich. Gen. 42. 

 On the loftiest mountains of Scotland and Westmoreland. 



