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1. Hairy 'Woodrush. Iiuzula pilosa, Willd. 



(Juneus, Eng. Bot. t. 736, and /. Forsteri, t. 1293. L. Forsterl, Brit. Fl. 



Z: Borreri, Bab. Man.) 



Stock branched and tufted, with creeping offsets. Stems slender and 

 erect, 6 inches to a foot high. Leaves chiefly radical or near the base of 

 the stem, linear and grass-like, 2 or 3 inches long, more or less fringed with 

 long, white hairs. Flowers all distinct, or very rarely two together ; the 

 central one nearly sessile, the others on slender peduncles, either simple and 

 1-flowered or more or less branched, forming an irregular terminal panicle. 

 Each flower has 2 or 3 scarious bracts or glumes at its base. Perianth-seg- 

 ments very pointed, of a shuimg brown. Capsule longer or scarcely shorter 

 than the perianth. Seeds with a soft, loose, obUque or curved appendage 

 at the top. 



In woods and on banks, common in Europe and Russian Asia, from the 

 Mediterranean to the Arctic regions, and in North America. Extends all 

 over Britain. Fl. spring. It is usually divided into two species, L. pilosa, 

 with the appendage of the seed decidedly curved, and L. Forsteri, with 

 that appendage straight or nearly so, but the character is very variable, and 

 does not correspond with the differences in habit which it is sometimes 

 supposed to do. 



2. Great \Voodrush. lauzula sylvatica, Bichen. 

 {Juneus, Eng. Bot. t. 737.) 



Easily known among British species by its large size; the stems attaining 

 1^ to 2 feet or more, and the leaves a breadth of 3 or 4 lines and a 

 length of above a foot. Flowers in little clusters of 2 or 3, in a large, loose, 

 compound panicle. Perianth rather smaller than in the hairy W., the seg- 

 ments broader but with a fine point. Capsule nearly of the same length. 

 Seeds without any appendage. 



In woods, chiefly in liiUy districts, in western, southern, and central Eu- 

 rope, as far as central Germany and western Scandinavia. Extends aU over 

 Britain. Fl. early summer. 



3. Curved ^Voodrush. Iiuzula arcuata, Hook. 



(Eng. Bot. Suppl. t. 2688.) 



A small species, seldom attaining 6 inches, with the leaves channelled 

 almost as in Rush, and without the white hau-s of our other Woodrushes. 

 The panicle consists of 3 or 4 clusters or heads of 3 or 4 flowers each, about 

 half the size of those of the hairy W. ; the central cluster sessUe, the others 

 on rather long, slender, curved peduncles. Capsule nearly globular, shorter 

 than the perianth. Seeds witliout any appendage. 



A high northern species, frequent in Arctic Europe, Asia, and America. 

 In Britain, only on the summits of the Cairngoram and Sutherland moun- 

 tains in Scotland. Fl. summer. 



4. Field TVoodrush. Iiuzula campestris, Br. 



{Juneus, Eng. Bot. t. 672, and L. congesta, Suppl. t. 2718. L. multifiora, 



Bab. iVIan.) 

 The foliage, stature, and white hairs are those of the hairy W., but the 

 flowers, instead of behig single, are collected 6 or 8 or more together in 

 close ovoid beads or clusters, of which from 3 to 6 form a small terminal 



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