HEXANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Luciola. 179 



G. hirsutum nemorosum. Ger. Em. 19./. Lob Tc. 16. f? 



G. rore lucidum nemorense, sive Luzulae. Bauh. Hist.v.2. 492. 



In shady groves, thickets, and on broken banks, among dead leaves, 



frequent. 

 Perennial. March, April. 



Hoot fibrous, increasing by runners. Stem from 9 to 12 inches 

 high, erect, round, slender, polished, leafy. Leaves linear-lan- 

 ceolate, entire, sheathing at the base, of a bright shining green, 

 many-nbbed, fringed with a few long, white, lax hairs, especi- 

 ally in an early state -, the radical ones numerous and large. 

 Panicle terminal, of numerous, unequal, capillary branches, 

 spreading and reflexed in various directions, partly forked, partly 

 in some degree racemose. Fl. terminal, lateral, and axillary, 

 always solitary, and nearly sessile, except the terminal ones. 

 Bracteas 2, close to eaeh flower, unequal, ovate, brown, with 

 membranous edges. Calyx-leaves ovate, acute, keeled ; brown 

 and striated at the back ; white and membranous at the mar- 

 gin ; the 3 inner ones rather the smallest. Caps, ovate with 3 

 angles, blunt, pointless, pale green, scarcely so long as the ca- 

 lyx. Seeds elliptic-oblong, large, with a terminal hooked crest, 

 nearly of their own length. 

 Lobel's figure, above quoted, like that in Bauhin's Theatrum, 101, 

 has the panicle, but not the capsules or leaves, of our L. Forsteri, 

 which those authors might have seen, without distinguishing be- 

 tween these two species. Mr. Bicheno well remarks that the 

 marginal hairs of the leaves are, when dry, twisted together in 

 small parcels. The herbage is eaten by cattle, in the early spring 

 only, when little else is to be had. 

 J. pilosus, FL Dan. t. 44], is too unlike every known species to be*' 

 safely quoted for any. 



2. L. Forsteri. Narrow-leaved Hairy Wood-rash. 



Panicle cymose, erect. Flowers solitary. Capsule pointed. 



Crest of the seeds straight and obtuse. 

 Luzula Forsteri. DeCand. Ic. PL GalL \.t.2. Bicheno Tr. of L. 



Soc.v. 12. 33\.t. 9. f.2. Hook. Scot. 1 10. Lond.t.GS. Forst. 



Tonbr. 44. 

 Juncus Forsteri. Fl.Br. 1395. Engl. Bot. v. 18. t. 1293. 

 Gramen pilosum, Luciola ab Italis dicta. Gesn. Fasc. 12. /. 6./. 14 ; 



excluding the synonyms and Jig. A. 



In groves and thickets, especially on a calcareous or gravelly soil. 



Perennial. May. 



Root of many fibres. Herb like the last, but rather Uiller, and the 

 leaves are much narrower, the upper ones, as Mr. Biciieno ob- 

 serves, being the largest. To the same accurate botanist we are 

 also ol)lige(l for romarking an essential difVerence in tlic crest of 

 the seed, which in the present species is shorter, and not liooked. 



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