122 CXXXII. JUNCACES. 
9. LUZULA, DC. 
Perianth of 6 equal glume-like segments. Stamens 6, 3 attached to 
the base of the inner segments, 3 alternate with them, all shorter than 
the perianth ; filaments filiform ; anthers oblong or linear, ereet, emar- 
ginate at the base. Ovary sessile, 1-celled, with 3 ovules erect from a Mes 
short central placenta ; style single, with 3 usually long and slender 
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grass-like, chiefly radical, often fringed with long fine white we 
Flowers clustered or distinct, the clusters in irregular unequally 
branched compound umbels or panicles sometimes contracted po 
heads, each flower subtended by a scarious bract and enclosed at tbe 
les. 
The genus, nearly allied to Juncus, is similarly spread over the greater part of the 
globe, chiefly abundant in temperate regions and more common i and pas- 
tures than in marshes. Of the three Australian species or varieties, one is 08 
mopolitan, the two others are endemic, at least in the precise Australian form. | 
Perianth-segments very acute, 1 to 1} lines lon 
Leaves 2 i [ i 
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to 4 lines broad, with prominent nerve-like 
margins, Flower-clusters in a dense head above iin. 
diameter 
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Leaves rarely above 2 lines broad, the nerve-like margins 
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1 . diameter . . 2. L. campestris. 
Perianth-segments subulate-acuminate, 2 to 24 lines long . 3. L. longiflora. 
Ir Oldfieldii, Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii, 68.— Considered by F 
Mueller as a variety of L. campestris, but can scarcely be joined wit 
it unless that eom be made to include the northern L. a as 
he South American Z. } ; 
compact, or 
slightly lobed head of 1 to 3 in, diameter. Perianth-segments pe 
acute, the size of those of Z. campestris or rather longer. Seeds rat 
ovoid than globular. 
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Tasmania. Summit of Mount Welli Oldfield ; à New Zealand plan 
almost identical with it is referred to the nere he J. D. Hooker. 
