ENGLISH BOTANY. 



Section III.— CONG EST J^.. 



Flowers collected into roundish or ovoid headlike spikes, which are 

 sometimes all subsessile and in a head or spike, and sometimes the lower 

 ones are at the extremity of elongate branches disposed in an um- 

 bellato-corymbose panicle ; these branches are usually simple or rarely 

 once cymosely branched at the apex ; in a few species the panicle is 

 contracted into a curved compound spike. Perianth leaves pale or 

 dark brown. Seeds without an apical appendage, or with an incon- 

 spicuous one, rarely with a distinct one, but often with a basal carun- 

 cule. 



SPECIES IV.-LUZULA CAMPESTRIS. B.O. 



Plate IVIDLI. 



Beich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. IX. Tab. CCCLXXV. 



Billot, PI. Gall, et Germ. E.xsicc. No. 1772. 



L. campestris, var. n, Hool:. & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 467. 



Luciola campestris, Sm. Engl. Fl. Vol. II. p. 181. / 



Jtincus campestris, Linn. Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 672. 



Not cssspitose, with rather elongate stolons. Stems solitary or few, 

 contemporaneous. Radical leaves narrowly linear, tapering most to- 

 wards the apex, widel}' channelled, soft, thickly clothed at the margins 

 with long soft hairs ; stem leaves few, smaller than the I'adical leaves. 

 Flowers in roundish-ovoid spikes, usually 3 or 4, but occasionally 

 5 to 10 in the spike. Spikes few, in a simple umbellato-corymbose 

 panicle or head ; the lower spikes supported on filiform slightly droop- 

 ing unbranched peduncles, the upper spikes or rarely all of them sub- 

 sessile. Bracts ovate, acuminate or aristate, fringed. Perianth leaves 

 lanceolate, the outer ones acuminate, the inner ones mucronate, a little 

 longer than the capsule, pale or dark brown with pale edges. Fila- 

 ments not a quarter of the length of the anthers. Capsule broadly 

 oblong-turbinate, bluntly trigonous, rounded and shortly mucronate at 

 the apex. Seeds small, ovoid-subglobular, brown, without an apical 

 crest, but Avith a whitish basal carnncule, which is but little shorter 

 than the rest of the seed. 



Var. a, umbellata. 

 Lower spikes on elongated drooping peduncles. 



Var. 0, congesta. 

 Spikes all subsessile. 



