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Crossing this brook, you will find the Luzula in plenty all along the 

 foot of the bank and margin of the brook, mingled with a small pro- 

 portion of L. Forsteri, and still less of L. pilosa. It also grows plen- 

 tifully, and in nearly complete isolation, on the slope of the dell, 

 a little below and opposite to the pine plantation before mentioned, 

 under hazel and other shrubs, but the spot is less easy to direct 

 a stranger to than the other. I shall now proceed to detail the 

 characters of this new Luzula, if such it be. ' Plant taller than either 

 L. pilosa or Forsteri, eighteen or twenty inches high,* very slender. 

 Leaves (root) longer than in L. pilosa, and quite as broad, laxer, 

 more drooping or recurved at their extremities from their greater 

 length, otherwise similar, excepting that their colour, viewed in the 

 aggregate, is somewhat brighter green. Panicle resembling that of 

 L. pilosa, but by no means the same, the very strongly reflexed and 

 divaricate peduncles fewer and much longer, hence the flowers appear 

 very widely scattered, and the outline of the panicle is quite oblong, 

 not as in L. pilosa, roundish. The bract at the base of the panicle is 

 long, narrow, and acuminate as in L. Forsteri, and the flowers are, as 

 in that, pale, but with perianth-segments a little broader and less 

 acuminate, or more like the same parts in L. pilosa. Stamens 

 similar to those of L. Forsteri, but anthers rather longer, and some- 

 what exceeding the filaments in length. Ovary more obtuse than in 

 L. Forsteri, not tapering at the top into the style as in that, with 

 much thicker, blunter angles, each angle with a distinct furrow down 

 its centre. Capsule much smaller than in either L. pilosa or Forsteri, 

 and greatly shorter than the erect or converging perianth, ovoid, some- 

 what acute, trigonous, with three thickened, obtuse, furrowed angles. 

 Seed always? abortive, a solitary one here and there apparently well- 

 grown, but never, so far as I can find, acquiring full colour and matu- 

 rity. The few I have been enabled to examine in this seemingly de- 

 veloped but unripe condition, resemble those of L. Forsteri, and like 

 them have a straight, blunt appendage or crest, without a trace of any 

 tendency to become hooked as in L. pilosa.f It now remains to be 

 considered whether the Apse-Castle Luzula be a hybrid betwixt L. 

 pilosa and L. Forsteri, or distinct from both. The numerous points 



* L. pilosa and L. Forsteri, when growing near or amongst it, do not exceed their 

 usual size, of about ten to twelve inches. 



f Even here there is a doubt, which only perfectly ripened seeds can dispel. I 

 have ascertained that the crest to the seeds of L. pilosa is at first straight, and does 

 not elongate and become hooked till they are at least half grown. 



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