244 COMMON CANADIAN WILD PLANTS. 



Stamens 6 (occasionally 3). Style 1. Stigmas 3. Pod 3- 

 celled, or 1-celled with 3 placentae on the walls. The plants 

 of the Order are not of any very great interest to the young 

 student, and the determination of the species, is rather diffi- 

 cult. A brief description of a few of the most common is 

 given here, as an easy introduction to the study of the 

 Order with the aid of more advanced text-books. 



Synopsis of I lie Genera. 



1. Lu'zula. Plant less than 1 foot high. Leaves linear or lance-linear, 



flat, usually hairy. Pod 1-celled, S-seeded. Flowers in umbels or 

 in spikes. Plants usually growing in dry ground. 



2. Jnncns. Plants always smooth, growing in water or wet soil. 



Flowers small, greenish or brownish, panicled or clustered. Pod 

 3-celled, many-seeded. 



1. M /I LA, DC. WOOD-RUSH. 



1. L. pilo'sa, Willd. (L. vemalis, DC.) Flowers um- 

 belled, long-peduncled, brown-coloured. Sepals pointed. 

 Shady banks. 



2. L. eampestPis, DC., has the flowers (light brown) in 

 4-12 spikes, the spikes umbelled. Sepals bristle-pointed. 

 Fields and woods. 



2. .n \ci s, L. RUSH. 



* Scapes single and leafless, bnt with sheaths at the base. Flowers in 

 sessile panicles, apparently from the side of the scape, owing to 

 the involucral leaf being similar to and continuing the scape. 



1. J. effu'SUS, L. (COMMON or SOFT RUSH.) Scape 2-4 

 feet high, soft and pliant, furnished at the base with merely 

 leafless sheaths, the inner sheaths awned. Panicle many- 

 flowered. Flowers small, greenish, only 1 on each pedicel. 

 Stamens 3. Pod greenish-brown, triangular-obovate, not 

 pointed. Marshes. 



2. J. fllifor'mis, L., has a very slender scape (1-2 feet 

 high), fewer flowers than No. 1, and 6 stamens in each. Pod 

 greenish, broadly ovate, and short-pointed. No leaves. 



3. J. Bal'tiCUS, Dethard, var. littoralis, Engelm. Scape 

 rigid, 2-3 feet high. No leaves. Panicle loose. Flowers 

 brownish. Pod elliptical, somewhat triangular, obtuse but 

 pointed, deep-brown. 



