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of the 3 outer seo;ment.s, commonly darker toward the apex ; the outer 

 leaves keeled, the inner ones fiat. Anthers yellowish-white, about as 

 long as the filaments, or a little longer. Capsule fawn-colour, a very 

 little shorter than the [lerianth. Seeds scarcely as large as maw 

 seed, rather dim, with a conspicuous pale crest. 



Narrow-leaved Hairy Woodrush. 



French, Luzule de Forster. German, Former's Marhel 



SPECIES II.— LUZULA PILOSA. Willd. 



Plate MDXLVIII. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. IX. Tab. CCCLXXXI. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1346. 



L. vernalis, B.C. Kunth. Euum. PI. Vol. III. p. 297. 



Lnciola pilosa, Sm. Engl. Fl. Vol. II. p. 178. 



Juncus pilosus, Linn. Sm. Engl. Bot. No. 736. 



Caespitose, with short slender stolons. Stems few. Radical leaves 

 broadly linear, narrowed at both ends, flat, soft, fringed with long 

 soft hairs ; stem leaves much shorter and narrower than the radical 

 leaves. Flowers solitary, in a very lax umbellato-corymbose panicle ; 

 lower branches elongate, once cymosely branched at the apex, divari- 

 cate in fruit ; fruit pedicels diverging, four to five times as long as the 

 perianth leaves. Bracts ovate, acute. Perianth leaves ovate-lanceo- 

 late, acute, rather shorter than the capsule, fuscous-brown, with pale 

 margins and midrib. Filaments about half as long as the anthers. 

 Capsule broadly-ovate, when containing perfect seeds subtruncate, 

 and suddenly contracted at the apex, which is abruptly apiculate. 

 Seeds roundish-ovoid, chestnut, with a conspicuous curved and pointed 

 whitish appendage at the apex. 



Var. a, geniiina. 

 Plate MDXLVIII. 



Capsule blunt and apiculate, longer than the perianth leaves. Seeds 

 perfect. 



Var. 3, Borreri. 

 L. Borreri, Bromf. Fl. Vect. p. .517. 



Capsule acute, shorter than the perianth leaves. Seeds abortive. 

 Plant taller and more slender than var. a. 



In woods, thickets, and shady hcdgebanks. Not uncommon, and 

 generally distributed. Rather local in Ireland, where it has not been 

 noticed on the west side of the island. Var. 3, at Apse Castle near 



