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FLOWERS OF THE HEATHS AND MOORS 



The flowers, as in all the Wood Rushes, are pollinated by the wind. 

 There are 6 stamens with very short anther-stalks. The style is short. 

 The 3 stigmas are wavy, and softly and loosely hairy. When the 

 flower-bud expands the 3 stigmas elongate and wither very quickly. 

 After five to nine days the flower is completely expanded, and after 

 a further interval of a day the anthers are ripe. The flower is open for 

 a day and a half. The plant is thus incapable of self-pollination. 



Photo. Flatt 



)OD RfSH (Luzula campeslris, D.C.) 



The capsule splits open, the seeds when ripe falling out to the 

 ground. 



This little Wood Rush is a humus-loving plant growing in a humus 

 soil, but also able to grow in sand soil. 



The plant is attacked by two cluster-cup fungi, Fuccinia obscura, 

 P. oblongata. The Lepidoptera Double-line (Leucania tttrca\ Colco- 

 phora ccpspitella, C. murinipennella, are found on it. 



The second Latin name indicates that it is found on pastures usually 

 dry and heath-like. 



The names by which it is known are Sweet Bent, Blackcaps, 

 Chimney-sweeps, Crow-feet, Cuckoo-grass, Davie-drap, God's Grace, 

 Good Friday Grass, Black-head Grass, Peeseweep, Hair-beard, Smuts, 

 Sweeps, Sweep's Brushes. The name Smuts was applied in reference 

 to the black appearance of the flower-heads, and the name Chimney- 

 sweeps has the same origin, and children on first seeing it in spring 

 say: 



