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As the specific name implies it is a woodland plant, 

 found in woods and on heaths, and on sandy places, 

 chiefly in hilly regions. It occurs on clay and loam, 

 in damp oakwoods, on sandy soil in dry sandy oak- 

 woods, and on siliceous soils in sessile oakwoods. 



Like other Woodrushes the habit is tufted. It is 

 the largest and tallest British species. The rootstock 

 is woody, short, with short stolons. The stems are few. 

 The leaves are broad, shining, finely-furrowed, with 

 few silky hairs, hairy at the edge, channelled, linear 

 to lance-shaped. The stem-leaves are few and short. 



The flowers are in large, loose, doubly compound 

 cymes, clustered (three flowers), exceeding the leaflike 

 bracts. The branches are spreading in fruit. The 

 perianth-segments are bristle-pointed, not as long as 

 the capsule. The flower-stalks are three-fid, long. 

 The bracteoles are ovate, acute, with a membranous 

 border. The anther-stalks are very short. The 

 capsule is ovoid, ovate, acute, beaked, blunt-pointed. 

 The seeds are tubercled at the end, without append- 

 ages. 



In height this Woodrush is i to 2 ft. It flowers from 

 May to July, and is a herbaceous perennial. 



As in other Woodrushes the flowers are wind-polli- 

 nated. The stigma ripens before the anthers, which 

 are longer than their stalks. The female flowers are 

 in bloom from one to two days. The anthers open 

 whilst the stigmas are still receptive, and self- as well 

 as cross-pollination may result. 



The capsule is three-valved, and when ripe the 



