148 HEXANDRIA — MONOGYNIA. [Ltiziila. 



18. J. capitdtns, Willd. (capitate Rush); leaves filiform (soft) 

 plane or grooved above, heads of flowers sessile terminal shorter 

 tliun the bracteas, leaflets of the perianth aciiminato-ariststte. 

 Hook, in E. But. Siippl. t. 2644. — J. supinus, Bich. — J. ericeto- 

 riim, DC. 



Jersey, il/>- Hudson. Fl. May, July. ©. — Plant 1 — 4 inches high, 

 flaccid. Leaves entirely radical, about half the length of the scape, 

 erect. Heads rather largo, in ])roportion to the size of the plant, of 

 .3 — 6 5ei9:\\e flowers, occasionally proliferous. This species is well dis- 

 tin;j:uished by the setaceous inclined bractea (with its sheathin<^ mem- 

 branaceous base), which is longer than the heads of flowers, and by the 

 acuminato-aristate perianth. 



19. J. higlumis, L. {two-fioioered Rush); leaves linear-subu- 

 late compressed (not channelled) gradually dilated into the 

 sheathing base, flowers 2, one of them pedicelled mostly shorter 

 than the foliaceous involucre, capsule turbinate retuse rather 

 longer than tlie obtuse leaflets of the perianth. E. Bat. t. 898. 



Bog-g-y places on the Higidand mountains : not unfrequent on the 

 Breadalbane range, but rare in other parts of Scotland. Fl. July, Aug. 

 14.. — 2 — 4 inches high; growing not in tufts, but scattered ; and a 

 much rarer species than the following, small specimens of which have 

 often been mistaken for it. " Leaves with distant transverse jjartitions 

 within, but not longitudinally divided." Mr W. Wilson. 



20. J. trighhnis, L. {three-jiowered Rush); leaves linear-subu- 

 late channelled bitubular their sheaths auricled above, flowers 

 mostly 3, gener.illy as long as the membranaceous bractea, cap- 

 sule elliptical acute longer than the rather obtuse leaflets of the 

 perianth. E. Bat. t. 899. 



Boggy places among the mountains in the north of England, Wales, 

 and especially the Highlands of Scotland. Fl. July, Aug. If. — Mr 

 W. Wilson has well studied, in living plants, the character of this and 

 the preceding species of Rush. " Slems," he says, of this plant, 

 " several from the same root, perfectly rounded, not channelled on one 

 side, as in J. biglumis, naked above, and generally with 2, and some- 

 times 3 leaves near the base. Leaves with dilated sheaths, which are 

 auricled at the top, setaceous, channelled, bitubular, with transverse 

 partitions ; radical leaves also setaceous, more slender and longer than 

 in J. higlumis. Sometimes 4^ flowers are found together, the additional 

 ones placed lower down and separated from the rest. Outer bractea 

 sometimes as large as in J. biglumis ; each flower has one bractea at its 

 base. Cal.-leaves more membranous than in the last, narrower and 

 more acute. Capsule longer than the calyx, with a tapering, rather 

 acute extremitv, and with indistinctly furrowed sides ; colour almost 

 black." W. Wilson. 



21. LuzuLA. Be Cand. Wood-rush. 



1. L. sylvdtica, Bich. (great hairy Wood-rush); leaves hairy, 

 panicle s'lbcymose, peduncles elongated of about 3 flowers, leaf- 

 lets of the perianth aristate as long as the capsule. — L. rnaxima, 

 DC. — Juncus, Huds. — E. Bat. t. 737 J. pilosus b, L. 



Woods, hill^' places, and upon the mountains, frequent. Fl. May, June. 

 If. — I — 1^ ft, high. Leaves broad, shining, striated. Floral bracteas 



