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JUNCACE^E 



hairs ; flowers in clusters, with prominent anthers, wind-pollinated ; 

 capsule I -chambered, 3-seeded. (Name from the provincial 

 Italian luzziola, a glow-worm, from the sparkling appearance of 

 the flower-heads by moonlight when wet with dew.) 



I. L. Forsieri (Forster's Wood-Rush). — A slender plant, about 

 a foot high ; leaves linear, hairy ; flowers on i-flowered, erect 

 peduncles in a loose, slightly branched cyme ; capsule 3-sided, 



acuminate. — Shady places 

 on calcareous soil in the 

 south ; rare. — Fl. March — • 

 June. Perennial. 



2. L. pilosa (Broad- 

 leaved Hairy Wood-rush). 

 — A very similar plant, 

 with broader, soft, slightly 

 hairy leaves ; flowers 1 — 3 

 together, on peduncles 

 which bend downwards in 

 fruit ; capsule 3 - sided, 

 blunt. — Woods ; common. 

 — Fl. April — June. Peren- 

 nial. 



3. L. silvdtica (Great 

 Wood-rush). — A common 

 woodland plant, with more 

 of the habit of a Grass 

 than a Push, sometimes 

 nearly 2 feet high ; leaves 

 linear - lanceolate, chan- 

 nelled, shining, with hairy 

 edges ; flowers 3 — 4 to- 

 gether, in a loose, doubly 

 compound, terminal pani- 

 cle with long branches ; 

 perianth-leaves pale brown, 

 awned, about as long as 



the ovoid, beaked capsule. — -AVoods ; abundant. — Fl. April — June. 

 Perennial. 



4. L. arcudta (Curved Mountain Wood-Rush). — A small 

 species, 2 — 5 in. high, with recurved leaves and a 3 — 5-rayed 

 umbellate panicle of flowers in 3 — 5-flowered clusters on drooping 

 stalks. — Summits of lofty Scottish mountains ; very rare. — Fl. 

 July. Perennial. 



5. L. spicdta (Spiked Mountain Wood-Rush). — A slender spe- 



LUZULA. CAMP^STRis {Field IJ'ood-Kush). 



