182 HEXANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Luciola. 



J. campestris multiflorus. Ehrh. Calam. 127 ? 



J. liniger. Purt. sitppl. 352. t. 9- 



Gramen hirsutum elatius^paniculajunceacompacta. RaiiSyn.4\6. 



G. hirsutum, capitulo globoso. Bauh.Pm.7. Theatr. 104./, Moris. 



sect. 8. t. 9. first fg. on the left. 

 G. Luzulse minus. Bauh. Hist. v. 2.493. f. 

 G. capitulis globosis. Ger.Em. 18. f. 



In marshy turfy ground, not uncommon. 



Perennial. June. 



The late Mr. Teesdale proved this plant to be unaltered by culti- 

 vation ; and its natural place of growth, size, and whole ap- 

 pearance, have always seemed so strongly to indicate a distinct 

 species from the common little L. campestris, that I am induced 

 at length to concur with those botanists who have separated 

 them. L. congesta has very erect stems, 18 inches high. The 

 leaves are much narrower than the last, with a minute callous 

 roughness all along their edges, scarcely discernible in that. The 

 quantity of white hairs varies in both. The panicle of the pre- 

 sent is certainly very different, consisting usually of 7 or 8, 

 roundish or ovate, dense obtuse clusters or spikes, the first almost 

 sessile, the rest on long, partly spreading, stalks. Calyx rather 

 paler, more taper-pointed, scarcely extending beyond the cap- 

 sule, which is of a rather narrower obovate form. 



The figures of the old authors represent too small a number of clus- 

 ters. Mr. Purton's plate is excellent. The plant figured in Linn. 

 Fl. Lapp. t. 10./. 2, the original specimen of which is in the Lin- 

 nsan herbarium, has paler, smaller, more oblong spikes, rather 

 than clusters; amore pointed calijx; narrower, less hairy, though 

 rough -edged, leaves ; and according to Dr. Wahlenberg, who 

 calls it Junciis pallescens, in his Fl. Lapp. 87, a weak, compressed, 

 nearly decumbent, stem. There is another species, closely al- 

 lied to these, in Virginia, whose leaves, nearly as tall as the stem, 

 are not so properly rough-edged as minutely and remotely ser- 

 rated. 



6. L. spicata. Spiked Wood-rush. 



Panicle dense, compound, oblong, lobed, drooping. Cap- 

 sule elliptical, with a small point. Crest of the seeds ob- 

 solete. Stem-leaves channelled. 



Luzula spicata. Bicheno Tr. of L. Soc. v. 12. 337. Hook. Scot. 111. 

 Juncus spicatus. Linn. Sp. PL 469. Fl. Lapp. n. 125. t. 10./. 4. 



Willd. V. 2. 222. Fl. Br. 386. Engl. Bot. v. 17. 1. 1 176. Dicks. 



Dr. PL 33. H. Sicc.fasc. 15.11. FL Dan. t. 270. Wahlenb, 



Lapp. 88. 

 J. n. 1330 y, erroneously marked /3. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 174. 

 Juncoides n. 7. Mich. Gen. 42. 



On the loftiest mountains of Scotland and Westmoreland, 



