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scapes; flowers in terminal nodding or one-sided racemes, 

 drooping, each with a pair of bracts at its base. Bluebell. 

 Woods and thickets. PL May. 



(110) Scilla. SQUILL. 



S. verna : bulbous, dwarf; leaves narrow-linear, channeled ; 

 flowers small, erect, blue, in short terminal corymbose ra- 

 cemes, the pedicels furnished with a linear bract. Maritime 

 cliffs. Fl. April. 



(Ill) Ornithogalum. 



O. umbellatum : bulbous, dwarf; leaves long, linear, flac- 

 cid; flowers corymbose, on a short scape, shorter than the 

 leaves, white with green streaks outside. Star of Bethlehem. 

 Meadows and pastures. Fl. April, May. 



O. nutans : bulbous ; leaves linear-lanceolate ; flowers large, 

 nodding, racemose, white, greenish outside. Fields and or- 

 chards. Fl. April, May. 



(112) Luzula. WOOD-RUSH. 



L. campestris : leaves flat, grass-like, fringed with long 

 white hairs ; flowers collected 68 together in close ovoid 

 heads or clusters, 3-6 of which are arranged to form a pani- 

 cle, the upper head sessile, the rest stalked ; flowers scarious, 

 shining brown. Barren pastures. Fl. April, May. 



L. pilosa : leaves flat and fringed as in the last ; flowers 

 panicled, each on a separate stalk, scarious, shining brown. 

 Shady groves. Fl. March, April. 



(113) Carex. SEDGE. 



* Spikes or flower-clusters simple, solitary. 

 C. dioica : creeping, dioecious, grass-like, 6-8 inches high; 

 female spikes shorter, ovoid. Spongy bogs. Fl. May, June. 



