104 HEXAND. MONOG. 



HAB. Woods, very rare. The only station in Britain is Den of Re- 

 chip, 4 m. N.E. of Bunkeld, where it is said, in E. Bot,, to have 

 been discovered by Arthur Bruce, Esq. in 1792. FL June. Ij. . 



Two feet high. Leaves numerous, bright green, 3 4 in a whorl. 

 Flowers solitary, or with branched footstalks, drooping. In Lap- 

 land, Wahlenberg tells us, this plant inhabits spots so wild that 

 they are scarcely to be approached by any creatures but the bears. 



3. C. multiflora (common Solomon's Seal), leaves ovato-cliipti- 

 cal alternate half embracing the rounded stem, peduncles axil- 

 lary 1 - or many-flowered, filaments hairy, style flexuose. Lightf. 

 p. 182. E.J3./.279. 



HAB. Woods, but not common. About Jibber castle, near Drumlan- 

 rig, in Nithsdale, Lightf. Ruins of Mugdoch castle, Glasg., Hopk. 

 Woods at Bothwell, Ma ugh. Fl. May, June. ~U . 



Two feet high, naked below. Leaves large, marked with longitudinal 

 nerves, secund ; emdjfowers drooping in the opposite direction, 

 white, greenish at the tips. 



11. JUNCUS". 



* Leaves none (flowers all lateral). 



1. J. arclicns (nor them hard Rusk), scapes smooth (soft), heads 

 of flowers compact nearly sessile, leaves of the perianth ovato- 

 lanceolate acute rigid rather shorter than the broadly obovate 

 capsule. Wahl. Lapp. p. 79. Fl. Dan. t. 1035. 



HAB. Sands of Barry, near Dundee, Mr. Drummond. Fl. July, 

 Aug. 7/. 



This highly interesting addition to our northern Flora was discovered 

 in the greatest abundance, and communicated to my excellent 

 friend Chas. Lyell, Esq. of Kinnordy, by Mr. Drummond, a most 

 active and intelligent botanist, and zealous naturalist j and who is 

 about to carry on the botanical establishment, should he meet with 

 sufficient encouragement, of the late Mr. G. Don at Forfar. The 

 root is strong, creeping far in the mud, and throwing up scapes of 

 from 8 inches to about 1 foot in height, which altogether want the 

 striae on the scapes of J. glaucus, and are less rigid. The great 

 distinction, however, is in the inflorescence. There is one bractea 

 about half an inch long, lanceolate, submembranous. Heads rather 

 than panicle of flowers, few, sometimes quite sessile, but one or two 

 not unfrequently on peduncles about half an inch long. Partial 

 or floral bracteas very membranous, broad, large, acute, covering 

 wholly the very short pedicels and nearly the flower. Perianth of 

 6 ovato-lanceolate leaflets, acute, thick, rigid, very dark shining 

 brown, almost black, with a paler line down the middle. The co- 

 lour indeed and compactness of the flowers at once distinguish 

 this species. Fruit obovate with a mucro, dark brown, a little 

 longer than the perianth. 



a For a most valuable history of the British species of JuncHsl must refer 

 to the paper of J. 35. Bicheno, Esq., inserted in the 12th vol. of the Trans- 

 actions of the Linnaran Soeiety. 



