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FIELD AND WOODLAND PLANTS 



larger and more succulent fio 



The Common lUi.-^ii. 

 It is generally irom one 



wers it is often included among the lilies. 

 It has a creeping rootstock, and 

 stiff, erect stems from six to ten 

 inches high. Its bright yellow, star- 

 like flowers form a stiff, terminal 

 raceme, with a bract at the base, 

 and another one above the middle 

 of each pedicel. The segments of 

 the perianth are about a third 

 of an inch long, yellow above and 

 greenish below. The stamens are 

 a little shorter than the ])erianth 

 segments ; and thek filaments are 

 clothed with white woolly hairs. 

 This plant is common on wet moors 

 and in mountain bogs, flowering 

 from June to August. 



The Common Rush (Jiincns com- 

 munis) is a very abundant species, 

 to be found in almost all wet and 

 marshy j)Iaces, flowering during July 

 and August. Its stems are round, 

 leafless, soft, faintly furrowed, solid, 

 with a continuous pith. They are 

 from one to three feet high, and are 

 sheathed at the base by a few 

 brownish scales, but the j)lant has 

 no true leaves. Most of the stems 

 bear a panicled cluster of green or 

 l)rown flowers al^out six inches 

 from the top. These panicles are 

 very vaiiable in form and size, being 

 either loose or dense, and varying 

 from one to three inches in 

 diameter. 



The Hard Eush {J uncus glaiicus) 

 is a very similar jjlant, flow eiing at 

 the same time ; but its stem is 

 slender, rigid, deeply furrowed, with 

 the ])ith interrupted by air spaces. 



to two feet high ; and, like the last 



