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FIELD AND WOODLAND PLANTS 



larger and more succulent flowers it is often included among the lilies. 



It has a creeping rootstock, and 

 stiff, erect stems from six to ten 

 inches high. Its bright yellow, star- 

 like flowers form a stiff, terminal 

 raceme, with a bract at the base, 

 and another one above the middle 

 of each pedicel. The segments of 

 the perianth are about a third 

 of an inch long, yellow above and 

 greenish below. The stamens are 

 a httle shorter than the perianth 

 segments ; and their filaments are 

 clothed with white woolly hairs. 

 This plant is common on wet moors 

 and in mountain bogs, flowering 

 from June to August. 



The Common Rush {J uncus com- 

 munis) is a very abundant species, 

 to be found in almost all wet and 

 marshy places, flowering during July 

 and August. Its stems are round, 

 leafless, soft, faintly furrowed, solid, 

 with a continuous pith. They are 

 from one to three feet high, and are 

 sheathed at the base by a few 

 brownish scales, but the plant has 

 no true leaves. Most of the stems 

 bear a panicled cluster of green or 

 brown flowers about six inches 

 from the top. These panicles are 

 very variable in form and size, being 

 either loose or dense, and varying 

 from one to three inches in 

 diameter. 



The Hard Rush {Juncus glaucus) 

 is a very similar plant, flowering at 

 the same time ; but its stem is 

 slender, rigid, deeply furrowed, with 

 the pith interrupted by air spaces. 



It is generally from one to two feet high ; and, like the last 



The CoioioN Rush. 



