68 FLORA OF TASMANIA. [ Juncee. 
panicle is very different, 3-1 inch long, dark brown, much branched, the branches somewhat fascicled, and the 
flowers clustered and smaller; the capsule is dark brown, and considerably shorter than the perianth. 
14. Juncus vaginatus (Br. Prodr. 258); robustus, elatus, aphyllus, culmis teretibus nudis basi 
laxe vaginatis, vaginis obtusis, panicula alba laterali effusa erecta ramosa multiflora, ramulis subfastigiatis, 
floribus majusculis distinctis, perianthiis acutis capsulam pallidam obovato-ellipticam obtusam subeequanti- 
bus, staminibus 6, seminibus testa utrinque laxa.—Kunth, En. iti. 319; E. Meyer, in Plant. Preiss. ii. 
46; Fl. N. Zeal. i. 262. (Gunn, 570?, 569.) 
Has. Common in many parts of the Colony, both in the north and south.—(Fl. Dec.) (v. v.) 
DisrRrB. Extratropical Australia and New Zealand. 
Much the largest of the Tasmanian species, and one of the most robust of the genus.— Culms erect, 3-5 feet 
high, sometimes as thick as the little finger, conspicuous for the loosely sheathing, blunt vaginze at the base. Pa- 
nicle very much divided, erect, white, 2-4 inches long. Flowers very numerous, distinct, white or very pale, large 
for the genus. Perianth as long as the ovoid, blunt capsule. The plant I have considered to be Brown's J. pal- 
lidus may be a small variety of this, with a longer capsule. 
Gen. III. LUZULA, DC. 
Flores Junci, sed ovario ovulis 3, et capsula 1-loculari 3-sperma.—Herbe; foliis planis, pilosis gla- 
bratisve; scapis gracilibus ; floribus glumaceis ; bracteis plerisque ciliatis. 
Luzula is distinguished from Juncus chiefly by the one-celled, three-seeded ovary and capsule; the species are 
numerous in Europe, and especially mountain and arctie regions, and several are also found in the southern tempe- 
rate hemisphere. The leaves are flat, grassy, and generally ciliated, in which respect the genus further differs from 
Juncus. (Name of doubtful derivation.) 
l. Luzula campestris (DC. Fl. Franc. iii. 161); foliis laxe ciliatis, culmis gracilibus, capitulis 
globosis ovatisve solitariis vel subumbellatis inzegualiter pedunculatis, bracteis scariosis, perianthiis acumi- 
natis, capsulis obtusis.— Br. Prodr. Addend.; Fl. N. Zeal. (Gunn, 598, 1440, 340, 341.) Variat miri- 
fice statura, indumento, inflorescentia florumque magnitudine et colore. 
Has. Abundant in pastures throughout the Island, ascending to 3000 feet.—(Fl. Aug.—Nov.) (v. v.) 
Distris. Throughout extratropical Australia, New Zealand, and temperate and arctic Europe, Asia, 
and America. 
The Luzula campestris, an extremely common and variable European species, is no less so in Australia, Tas- 
mania, and New Zealand. It is a small, herbaceous, perennial-rooted plant, 4 inches to a foot high, with numerous, 
grassy, flat, spreading radical leaves, ciliated abundantly with long hairs, sometimes woolly, and a long, slender, 
leafy scape, bearing one or many heads of flowers arranged in capitula or umbels, with long or short spreading 
branches.—Capitula varying in size from a pea to a marble, subtended by leafy bracts. Flowers small, sessile: 
brown, or whitish, or green, with brown margins to the leaflets, closely surrounded with scarious, ciliated bracts. 
Flowers of the same structure as Juncus, but the style is generally longer; the ovary is one-celled, with three erect 
ovules. Capsule three-valved, one-celled, three-seeded. 
2. Luzula Oldfeldii (Hook. fil.) ; foliis late linearibus longe ciliatis, capitulis in capitulum densum 
ovatum sessile congestis, involucris brevibus, bracteis sublaceris, perianthiis acuminatis brunneis late albo- 
marginatis integerrimis. 
Has. Wet places on the summit of Mount Wellington, O/dfield.—(Fl. Jan.) 
Very different in size, robustness, and habit, from any of the varieties of L. campestris, and with the inflores- 
cence forming a dense, short, lobed, ovoid or globose, terminal, sessile head, subtended by short involucral leaves. 
