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with the base of the style, but scarcely mucronate, much longer than 

 the spreading and peristent persianlh. Seeds* in L. Forsteri roundish, 

 ovoid or nearly globose, blight brown, very smooth, polished and 

 translucent, crested with a large, oblong, obtuse and oblique, but not 

 at all hooked caruncle. The seeds of L. pilosa are precisely like 

 those of L. Forsteri in form, size, and colour, but furnished with a 

 caruncular appendage of at least twice the length, attenuated into 

 a point and uncinately contorted.f The foregoing remarks will, I 

 trust, enable our northern and western botanists to distinguish these 

 two most indubitably separate, but assuredly closely related species, 

 so long confounded, till the late Mr. E. Forster and Mr. Bicheno 

 pointed out, the former in the panicle, the latter in the seed, characters 

 by which L. Forsteri differed from its more common ally. The geo- 

 graphical distribution of the two species is moreover totally different, 

 for whilst L. pilosa is dispersed over nearly the whole of Europe, al- 

 most to the northernmost extremity of Scandinavia, L. Forsteri is 

 strictly a plant of southern and central Europe, even in Germany 

 scarcely found, but in the middle and western part from Switzerland 

 to Baden and Rhenish Prussia, and thence westward over France and 

 a great part of England. I may add that the root of L. Forsteri is 

 much less creeping or stoloniferous than in the other, a fact remarked 

 also by Gaudin in his ' Flora Helvetica.' 



Luzula pilosa. In rather dry groves, thickets, copses and on 

 bushy banks, often amongst dead leaves ; very common over the en- 

 tire county and Isle of Wight. Profusely in some parts of Apse Castle, 

 with the two preceding species and the following. Extremely, per- 

 haps usually, plentiful in woods by the Newbury road from Andover, 

 a little beyond Enham ; in one place associated with L. Forsteri and 

 the following enigmatical species, state or variety. 



Luzula (nova species ?) So long back as April, 1841, I 



was struck with the appearance of a Luzula growing plentifully at 

 Apse Castle, near Shanklin, closely resembling L. pilosa in appear- 

 ance, and having, like it, strongly divaricate and partly deflexed pe- 



* The seeds of Luzula must be examined when quite recent, as they soon become 

 dull, wrinkled and opaque by keeping, and the crest shrinks and loses its peculiar form 

 and proportions, whilst the form of the capsules cannot be well seen after their dehis- 

 cence. From inattention to these points, the figures of the fructification of L. pilosa 

 and L. Forsteri, in the exquisite supplementary plates of the edition of the ' Flora 

 Londinensis ' by Hooker and Graves, are sadly deficient in fidelity, both as to form 

 and colour. These parts in L. Forsteri are much better drawn than in L. pilosa. 



f As much or more bent than the letter S ; in other words, doubly hooked. 



