330 ENDOGENOUS PLANTS 



1 C luteuill, A. Gray. Leaves lanceolate, the radical ones 



oblanceolate ; fertile stems taller and more leafy ; pedicels without 



bracts. 



Helonias dioica. Pursh. $ Fl. Cestr. ed. 2. p. 233. 



YELLOW CHAMAELIRIUM. Blazing Star. Devil's-bit. . ;-' 



Plant yellowish green. Stem 1 to 2 (the pistillate, ones near 3) feet high, sulcatc- 

 Striate. Radical leaves 3 to 6 or 8 inches long ; stem-leaves gradually smaller. 

 Raceme 6 to 12 inches in length, the staminate one slender, flaccid, and mostly 

 nodding at apex, the pistillate one stouter, and erect; ovaries greenish. Capsuks 

 about % an inch long. 

 Sab. Woodlands, and moist meadows : frequent. Fl. May. Fr. Sept. 



Obs. The rhizoma is bitter, and was much used as a popular 

 tonic, when alcoholic medicines were in vogue. 



ORDER CXIII. JUNCA^CEAE. 



Serbs; stems (or culms) nodose; leaves alternate, grass-like, or terete ; flowers regu- 

 lar, mostly perfect, the perianth of 6 similar dry glumaceous persistent lobes (or 

 sepals), free from the ovary, with 2 bracts at base; stamens usually 6, sometimes 

 3, opposite the outer lobes; anthers introrse; style simple; stigmas 3; fruit a cap- 

 sule, I- to 3-celled, 3-valved, loculicidal, 3- or many-seeded; seeds erect; embryo 

 inclosed at the base of hard albumen. An. order remarkable for lack of beauty, 

 and value. 



45O. LITZIHLA, DC. 



[Italian, Lucciola, a glow-worm; from its glittering spikelets, when wet with dew.] 

 Stamens 6. Capsule 1-celled, 3-seeded. Perennials : stems slender, 

 pithy; leaves grass-like, hairy; flowers in terminal subpaniculate 

 clusters or spikelets, tawny or chestnut-brown. 



1. JL. campestris, DC. Leaves lance-linear, ciliate with long 

 loose hairs ; spikelets 4 to 12, oblong-ovoid, subumbellate. 

 FIELD LUZULA. Field Rush. 



Stem 4 1& 12 or 18 inches high, often cespitose. Leaves 2 to 6 inches long. 

 Peduncles unequal, half an inch to 2 or 3 inches in length; involucre of 2 or 3 

 unequal leaves, usually shorter than the longest peduncles. 

 Hob. Fields, and open woodlands: common. Fl. April. Fr. June. 



Obs. This is common to both hemispheres, if really indigenous 

 here. 



451. JUHT'CUS, L. 



[Latin, jungo, to join ; the culins being used as bands.] 

 Stamens 6, or often 3. Capsule 3-celled, sometimes imperfectly so, 

 at maturity ; seeds numerous, oblong, sometimes with an acumina- 

 tion, or tail, at each end. Chiefly perennials: stems mostly simple, 

 scape-like, often cespitose, and filled with pith ; leaves terete, flat, 

 or channelled ; flowers cymose, paniculate, or clustered in heads, 

 greenish-brown. 



f 1. Stems naked, of ten sterile (resembling terete leaves) ; panicle lateral; stamens 3. 



1. J. eflYlsus, L. Stem finely striate, soft and pliant, filled with 

 spongy pith, furnished with leafless sheaths at base ; panicle con- 

 tracted, much branched. 



