Llizula.] HEXANDRIA — MONOGYNIA. 149 



ciliated. Caps, with a very sharp point, deep brown. Seeds elliptic- 

 ovate, with scarcely any crested appendage on the top. 



2. L. pildsa, Willd. (broad- leaved hairy Wood-rush); leaves 

 hairy, panicle subcymose, peduncles 1 -flowered bent back, leaf- 

 lets of the perianth acuminate rather shorter than the obtuse 

 capsule. — Jtmcus, L. — B. Sot. t. 736. 



Woods, frequent. FL April, jNIay. "U. — Much smaller than the last, 

 ■with \ki&jioicers standing singlj' on \\\& panicle, dark brown. Seeds with 

 a curved appendage at the top. 



3. L. Forsteri, DC. (jiarrow-leaved hairy Wood-rush); leaves 

 hairy, panicle subcymose but little branched, peduncles l-flow- 

 ered erect, leaflets of the perianth narrow acuminated a little 

 longer than the acute capsule. Hook. Scot. '\. p. 110. — Juncus, 

 E. Bot. t. 1293. 



Groves and thickets, especially on a calcareous or gravelly soil. {E. 

 Fl.) More common in Surrey than L. pilosa. About Forfar, and banks 

 of the Doune, Ayrshire, yli>- Jas. Wilson. FL May, June. If. — Much 

 slenderer than the last in every part and taller. Seed with a large ob- 

 long crested appendage on the top. 



4. L. campestris, Br. (field Wood-rush); leaves hairy, spikes 

 sessile and pedunculated, leaflets of the perianth acuminate 

 longer than the obtuse capsule. — Juncus, L — E.Bot. t.672. — /3. 

 taller, with the spikes of flowers collected into an almost orbi- 

 cular head. — L. congesta, Lej. — E. Bot. Suppl. t. 2718. 



Woods and dry pastures, frequent ; a. and /3. growing together. Fl. 

 April, May. If. — 4—6 or 8 inches, or even a foot or more high. Flowers 

 collected into ovate or oblong, nearly erect spikes, of a reddish-brown 

 colour, sometimes very pale. In /3. the spikes are nearly all sessile. De 

 Candolle, whom Smith quotes as the authority for considering this a 

 distinct species, himself now in the Bot. Gallicon, makes it a var. of 

 campestris. Indeed we find various intermediate states. — Even the 

 L. Sudetica of DC. will probably prove not permanently distinct from 

 campestris. 



5. L. arcudta, Hook, {curved 3Iountain Wood-rush); leaves 

 channelled hairy, panicle subumbellate of few 3 — 3-flowered 

 heads with long drooping peduncles, bracteas membranous 

 fringed, capsule ovato-globose shorter than the broadly lanceo- 

 late leaflets of the perianth. Hook, in Fl. Lond. N. S. t. 153. 



On the barren stony summits of the great Cairngorum range of moun- 

 tains. Upon Fonniven, a high mountain in Sutherland, and in Assynt, 

 Dr Graham. F/. July. If. — The smallest of our Zmzzz/o? and one of 

 the rarest and most distinct. It comes nearer Mr Brown's L. hyper- 

 borea than any other, but that wants the curved peduncles. 



6. L. spicdta, DC. (spiked 3Iountai?i Wood-rush); leaves sorne- 

 Avhat channelled, spike solitary drooping compound, spikelets 

 shorter than their subdiaphanous mucronated bracteas, leaflets 

 of the perianth mucronato-aristate about as long as the rounded 

 capsule. Hook. Scot. \. p. 111. Juncus, L. — E. Bot. t. 1176. 



High mountains in the north of England, and more abundantly in 



