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inflammatory fevers. As decorative plants they have 

 their value; planted singly or in isolated groups they 

 produce a magnificent effect, especially V. nigrum, 

 whose flowers have a distinctive and piquant flavour all 

 their own. 



Luzula 



Eng. : Woodrush ; Fr. : Luzule ; Ger. : Hainsimse. 



This plant has the grasslike appearance and narrow, 

 filiform or sheathed leaves characteristic of the order 

 Juncaceae. The flowers are small, regular and bracteate. 

 with a somewhat membranous perianth and six stamens. 

 It is a native of woods or, occasionally, of high alpine 

 pastures. 



L. nivea (PL XCVI ). Obliquely rooting plant; 

 leaves grass-like; flowers snow-white, with acute di- 

 visions, the exterior one third shorter than the interior, 

 in corymbose cymes. Woods of mountain districts ; 

 local. In L. albida the rootstock is horizontal; perianth 

 reddish at maturity, the divisions ovate-lanceolate, the 

 exterior a little shorter than the interior; flowers in a very 

 lax cyme. 



The two plants are closely related ; both do well 

 in garden shrubberies or on the edges of clumps of 

 trees. 



L. lutea (PI. XCVI). High pastures of the granitic 

 Alps ; occasionally on the transitional formations ; 2000- 

 25oo m. 



tEriophorum 



"Eng. : Cotton-Grass ; Fr. : Li n aigrette ; "Ger. : Wollgras. 



Bog plants, to the seeds of which are attached bristles, 

 generally of glistening white and forming a feathery tuft 



