82,8 Mr. J. E. Biciieno's Observations 



terminal, collected into little heads. Calyx-leaflets elliptic, all 

 obtuse, as long as the capsule ; margin broadly scariose ; keel 

 brown. Capsule light-brown, shining, small, oval, mucronate, 

 three-sided, three-celled. 



The pale much branched panicle distinguishes this at first 

 sight; and, upon closer examination, the obtuse calyx-leaflets, 

 which are as long as the capsule, and the jointed stem having 

 only two leaves, afford further marks for discrimination. This is 

 DO doubt Avhat Gerard has figured p. 20. /. 10. and which in 

 Johnson's edition is changed for acutifiorus ; and it is what Ray, 

 in his Hist. Plant, p. 1307. 4., has described as a variety of the 

 same plant. — " Cum planta," he says, " in aquosis et humidiori- 

 bus nascitur, majis sparsa et pluribus capsularum agminibus com- 

 posita qu^m in prsecedente. Quamvis autera planta ipsa major 

 et elatior sit quam ilia, capsulae tamen seminales minores sunt, 

 nee adeo obscure nigricant." It is also Ray's plant, mentioned 

 in his Synopsis, 2d ed, p. 276., where he says, after describing 

 acutifiorus, " Secunda species elatior et major est, paniculA ma- 

 jis spars^, capsulis tamen minoribus minusque coloratis quam in 

 ilia." Dillenius understood the expression " secunda species" 

 to refer to the second species of the subdivision in which the 

 plant is placed ; whereas Ray meant the second as following that 

 he was then describing, which was acutifiorus. Thus, in the third 

 edition (in which the species are differently arranged,) Dillenius, 

 speaking of this plant, says, " Priori elatior et major est, panicula 

 majis sparsa est," &c. &c., applying these words to J. lampocar- 

 pus, which was the second species of the second edition, and 

 which he in his new arrangement had placed next before acu- 

 tifiorus. 



LUZULA. 



