JUNCACE-f). 9 



In dry iiekls and iiastnros, and uncultivated ground. ^(-'I'y 

 couHUOu, and universally distributed. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Late Spring, early 

 Sunnner. 



Kootstock branched, cree])ing, sometimes to a considerable distance, 

 each branch producing at the apex 1 (or more rarely 2 or 3) flowering 

 stems and a tew barren shoots, but these are all generally slightly sepa- 

 rated from each other. Flowering stems 3 inches to 1 foot high, very 

 slender, leaty at the base, and with 1 to'3 stem leaves, which are equal 

 to or a little longer than their slieaths. Lowest bract or 2 bracts 

 Ibliaceous, commonly shorter than the peduncles. Spikes 2 to 5, the 

 lower flowers spreading, at least when in fruit. Bracts white, shining, 

 fringed with soft hairs. Perianth leaves about J, inch long, varying 

 from light to dark brown, the margins and sometimes the base much 

 paler. Capsule chestnut. Seeds about -^^ inch long, of which the 

 basal caruucule is nearly one half. Leaves slightly shining, reddish- 

 brown at the base. 



Field Woodrush. 



French, Luzule des champs. German, Gemeiner Marhel. 



SPECIES v.— LUZULA MULTIPLORA. Koch. 



Plate MDL. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. IX. Tab. CCCLXXVI. and CCCLXXVII. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1773. 



L. congesta, LeJ. Hook, in E. B. S. No. 2719. 



L. campestris, var. /3. Hooh. & Am. ed. viii. p. 4G7 



Luciola congesta, Sm. Engl. Fl. Vol. II. p. 181. 



Juncus campestris, var. y, Linn. Spec. Fl. p. 4G9. 



CfEspitose, with very short stolons. Stems numerous, appearing in 

 succession. Radical leaves narrowly linear or linear, tapering most 

 towards the apex, widely channelled, rather soft, clothed at the margins 

 ynih long soft silky hairs or subglabrous ; stem leaves several, about 

 as long as the radical leaves, but often broader. Flowers in ovate- 

 ovoid or oblong-ovoid spikes, usually numerous, rarely only 5 or 6 in 

 each spike. Spikes usually numerous, in a simple umbellato-coryra- 

 bose panicle ; lower spikes supported on firm ei'cct peduncles, which 

 are simple or sometimes once cymcsely branched ; the upper .spike 

 or frequently all of them subsessile. Bracts triangular-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, fringed. Perianth leaves narrowly lanceolate, all of them 

 acuminate, the outer ones almost subulate at the point, a little longer 

 than the capsule, pale or dark brown ^viih pale edges. Filaments about 

 half as long as the anthers. Capsule broadly oblong-turbinate, bluntly 



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