514 1UZULA. [CLASS VI. ORDER I. 



base of the style, much shorter than the perianth. Seedx small, with a 

 line on one side, and the base with a conical appendage. 



Habitat. Dry pastures and heathy places ; frequent. 



Perennial ; flowering in April and May. 



5. L' multi'jlora, Lejam. (Jl.de. spa. 1. p. 169.) (Fig. 587.) Many 

 flowered Wood Rush. Panicle of numerous ovate sessile and pedun- 

 culated clusters; perianth of six equal narrow very acuminate bristle 

 pointed segments, longer than the roundish obtuse pointed capsule ; 

 stamens with short linear anthers, as long as the filaments. 



Koch Fl. Germ. Helv. p. 734. L. erecta, Desv. Journ. L. cam- 

 pestris,\&t. @. De Cand. Fl. 2. p. 601. Juncus multiftorus, Ehrh. 

 calm. n. 127. Luzula congesta. English Flora, vol. ii. p. 181. 

 English Botany, Supp. t. 2719 (the middle figure.) Lindley, Synopsis, 

 p. 276. Juncus liniger. Purton's Midland Fl. Supp. p. 352. t. 9. 



@. conges'ta. (Fig. 588.) Panicle contracted into a rounded lobed 

 bead. Luzula congesta, Lej. spa. 168. English Botany, Suppl. t. 

 2719 (right band figure.) Luzula campestris, var. @. Hooker, British 

 Flora, vol. i. p. 170, var. y. Meyer monogr. p. 18, var. . De Cand. 

 fl. 2. p. 602. 



y. nigricans. Panicle contracted into a lobed head, of a brownish 

 black colour, the leaves only hairy at the base, frequently altogether 

 smooth. Luzula nigricans, Deso. journ. i. p. 158. L. campestrist 

 var. 5. alpina, Meyer monogr. p. 18, var. J. nigricans, De Cand. fl. 2. 

 p. 602. L. nigricans, De Ca'nd. fl. fr. suppl. p. 306. Juncus sudeticus, 

 Will. spec. 2. p. 221. 



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

 ground stems, tufted. Stems erect, round, smooth, striated, from one 

 and half to two feet high, slender, leafy. Leaves numerous from the 

 root, tufted, linear, long, flaccid, striated and paler on the under side, 

 the upper scattered over more or less with long slender silky hairs, but 

 especially the margins and towards the lower part of the leaf, the leaves 

 of the stem shorter, forming a sheath around the stem, which has fre- 

 quently at the top a large tuft of hairs. Panicle terminal, of from six 

 to ten dense roundish ovate spikes of flowers, several of which or all 

 are sessile, or nearly so, and the others on peduncles of variable lengths, 

 from half an inch to an inch long, usually longer than the flat leafy 

 Iractea, from the base of which they arise, and at the base of each of 

 the flowers is a lanceolate pale membranous ciliated bractea. Flowers 

 densely crowded, of six equal narrow lanceolate pieces, with long taper- 

 ing points, thin, membranous, pale brown, with a keel terminating in 

 the bristly point, the three inner pieces usually more obtuse at the 

 point, and less tapering from the more dilated margins. Stamens 

 about half as long as the perianth, with small linear yellow anthers, 

 becoming twisted after flowering, and not more than as long again as 

 the filament. Capsule a little shorter than the perianth, obovate, ob- 

 tuse, crowned with a blunt point the persistent base of the style, three 



