JUNCACE^E. 



ORDER LXXXVL— J UNCAGED. 



Perennial or annual sedgelike herbs with creeping or tufted root- 

 stocks and usually with cylindrical or grasslike leaves shortly sheath- 

 ing at the base, rarely ^%ath the leaves reduced to scales at the bottom 

 of leafless stems. Flowers perfect, regular, solitary or in fascicles, 

 arranged in spikes, heads, or umbellato-corymbose panicles. Perianth 

 free from the ovary, of 6 leaves in two rows ; perianth leaves, all 

 similar, scarious, and resembling in texture the glumes of grasses and 

 sedges. Stamens 6, opposite, the perianth segments inserted in their 

 bases, rarely subhypogynous, or 3 opposite the outer perianth seg- 

 ments ; anthers affixed by the base, introrse. Ovary free from the 

 perianth, 3-celled, sometimes incompletely so ; ovules numerous in 

 each cell or 3 in all, in the genus in which the ovai-y is 1 -celled ; 

 style terminal, simple ; stigmas 3 ; capsule loculicidally 3-valved. 

 Seeds minute, the testa often raised from the seed at the ends ; 

 albumen densely fleshy ; radicle next the hilum. 



GENUS I.—L U Z U L A. D.C. 



Perianth 6-leaved ; perianth-leaves scarious, brown or green and 

 brown or coloured. Stamens 6. Capsule 1-celled, 3-valved. Seeds 3, 

 at the base of the capsule. 



Perennial herbs, often hairy with flat or channelled grass-like leaves, 

 and flowers in a terminal umbellato-corymbose panicle ; some species 

 with tlie primary racliis very short jmd the lower lateral branches long 

 and the flowers lax or collected into heads at the extremity of the 

 branches : in other species with the rachis elongated and the lateral 

 branches short, so that the inflorescence resembles a spike. 



The name of this genus of plants is derived from the Italian name for the glow- 

 worm, so called from its shining capsules. 



Section I.— PILOS/E. 



Flowers solitary, arranged in a lax umbellato-corymbose panicle, 

 with the lower branches cymosely branched. Perianth leaves brown 

 or fawn-coloured. Seeds with a conspicuous appendage at the 

 apex. 



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