() ENGLISH BOTANT. 



Shanklin and Quarr, Isle of Wight ; near lAigger's Hall, under Black- 

 downi, Sussex ; Tunbridge Wells, Kent ; Telegraph Wood, Claygate, 

 Surrey ; Ross, Herefordshu'e ; Devil's Glen, Wicklow, 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Late Spring. 



Very similar to L. Forsteri, with which Mr. Bentham combines it, 

 but the stolons are longer, the stems are usually less numerous in each 

 tuft, more slender, the root leaves twice as broad, the branches of the 

 corymb more capillaiy, the lower ones fewer-flowered, divaricate or 

 reflexed, and not at all secund in fruit; pedicels of the lower branches 

 of the panicle longer ; bracts broader and less attenuated at the apex ; 

 perianth leaves much darker in the middle, with the exception of 

 the pale central line ; capsule shorter and more truncate at the apex, 

 at least when there are perfect seeds; ripe seeds rather larger, and 

 with a considerably longer more pointed and falcate crest. 



L. Borreri, Bromf. {Bab. ^lan. Brit. Bot. eds. iii. and iv.), is now 

 generally admitted to be a sterile form of L. pilosa ; its occurrence in 

 Ireland appears conclusive e\adence against its being a hybrid between 

 L. pilosa and L. Forsteri, as the latter plant does not occur in Ireland. 

 In the English stations it appears to grow in company with the 

 normal form of L. pilosa and L. Forsteri. It is usually a taller plant 

 than the ordinary L. pilosa, the stems being frequently 18 inches high, 

 the leaves are narrower, the branches of the panicle shorter, though 

 equally reflexed after flowering, the perianth leaves narrower and more 

 acute, and the capsule narrower and gradually attenuated, not evidently 

 truncate. This last, which is the most important difference, no doubt 

 is in consequence of the seeds never comuig to their full size so as to 

 press out the lower portion of the capsule. Mr. H. C. Watson has 

 cultivated L. Borreri for several years, but the seeds never arrive at 

 maturity, but shrivel up when about half-grown; and from the half- 

 gro'vvn seeds of Luzula the distinctive character of the crest cannot be 

 ascertained. 



Broad-leaved Hairy Woodrush. 



French, Luzule poilue. German, Behaarter Marbel. 



Section II.— MAXIMA. 



Flowers rarely solitary, generally in small cymose fascicles in a lax 

 or rather lax umbellato-corymbose panicle, with cymose branches. 

 Perianth leaves chestnut, or yellow, or white, or pui'plish. Seeds 

 without an apical crest or with a very inconspicuous one. 



