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The Field Wood Eush (Liizula campestris), opens its brown 

 stars and displays its yellow anthers in our hilly pastures early 

 in the spring. All the family have broadish grassy leaves, with 

 long down upon them. 



The Broad-leaved Hairy Wood Rush (L. pilosa), is rather a 

 larger plant, and lighter in form. It adorns the woods whilst its 

 brother is decorating the fields, and is equally common with us. 



The Narrow-leaved species (L. Forsteri), is very slender, 

 much more scarce, but favours our woods occasionally. 



The Great Wood Eush (L. sylvatica), is very common with 

 us. Its matted clusters of pale green leaves form thick plats, 

 and remain like a deep covering of straw when the flowers 

 are quite dead. The stem grows a foot high, with a handsome 

 panicle of starry brown flowers. The whole plant is downy. 



There are a Spiked Wood Eush, and a Curved Mountain 

 Wood Eush (L. spicata and L. arcuata), but we have not found 

 them. 



The Bog Asphodel family has only one British member, and 

 it is termed, not very suitably, the Lancashire Bog Asphodel 

 (Narthecium ossifragum, Plate XVI., fig. 12). I first saw 

 this plant at Eudd Heath, in Cheshire, and I have since found 

 it among Ling on the Swaledale hills in great abundance ; so 

 that, though it may be a native of Lancashire, I know it to be 

 a native of at least two other counties, and the abundance of 

 its spikes of rose-coloured seed-vessels which I saw spangling 

 the wet ground in the Highlands shows it to belong to Scotland 

 too. The flowers have six petals of a golden yellow colour, and 

 the stamens are beautifully fringed, with orange anthers upon 

 their summits. The blossoms are arranged in a spike two 

 inches long, the whole stem measuring five or six inches. The 

 leaves are sword- shaped, and wrapping over each other, and 

 there is a bract in the middle of the stem, and another near its 

 base. The root is creeping and fibrous, and the general hue of 

 the plant a glaucous green. It is a very pretty plant, and has 

 an excellent effect when contrasted with the dark purple Ling 



