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the division of the branches and at the base of the flowers small, 

 lanceolate, membranous, brown, with pale white edges. Perianth, of 

 six equal lanceolate acuminate pieces, keeled and striated at the back, 

 the keel terminating in a short fine point, a dark chestnut brown, with 

 pale thin membranous margins. Stamens about half as long as the 

 perianth, with very short filaments and linear anthers, becoming twisted 

 after flowering. Style about as long as the perianth, with three 

 spreading stigmas. Capsule rather longer than the perianth, ovate, 

 obtuse, pointed with the persistent base of the style, three angled, 

 three seeded. Seeds roundish, ovate, marked with a line on the inner 

 side, and having at the apex a large pale hooked appendage. 



Habitat. Woods and shady places ; frequent. 



Perennial ; flowering in April and May. 



This species is readily distinguished from L. Forsteri, by its reflexed 

 peduncles and hooked appendage to the seeds; its leaves are larger and 

 longer, but much smaller than those of L. sylvatica, with which it is 

 often found growing, but from that it is readily distinguished. 



*** Seeds with a conical appendage at the base. 



4. L. campet'tris, Willd. (Fig. 586.) Field Wood Rush. Panicle of 

 three or four ovate dense sessile and pedunculated clusters; perianth 

 of six equal acuminate bristle pointed segments, longer than the ob- 

 tuse pointed capsule ; stamens with large linear anthers and very short 

 filaments. 



English Flora, vol. ii. p. 181. Hooker, British Flora, vol. i. p. 

 170. Liudley, Synopsis, p. 276. Juncus Campestris, Linn. English 

 Botany, t. 672. 



Root of numerous long branched fibres, and short creeping under- 

 ground stems. Stems tufted, slender, erect, from four to ten inches 

 high, smooth and leafy, simple. Leaves numerous, narrow, linear, 

 spreading, flat, smooth, paler beneath, and finely striated, the margins 

 ciliated with long slender soft white hairs, the leaves of the stem 

 shorter than the others, and sheathed at the base round the stem. 

 Panicle terminal, of about four ovate dense spikes of flowers, sessile, 

 or more generally one is sessile, and the others elevated on peduncles, 

 mostly of irregular lengths, and seldom longer than the flat leafy 

 bractea, from the base of which they arise. Flowers densely crowded, 

 sessile in the bosom of a membranous ovate acute ciliated bractea. 

 Perianth of six equal lanceolate acuminate pieces, of a chestnut 

 brown colour, keeled and striated at the back, the keel terminating in 

 a bristly point, the three inner segments more obtuse at the point from 

 the more dilated margin, which is frequently cleft, with the keel ter- 

 minating between the cleft in a short bristly point. Stamens with 

 very short filaments, not more than one-sixth as long as the linear 

 large yellow anther, which is nearly as long as the perianth. Style 

 nearly as long 1 as the stamens, with three slender long protruding 

 stigmas. Capsule roundish, obovate, obtuse, crowned by the persistent 



