HEXANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Liiciola. 183 



On the grassy summit of Ben Lomond. — Found by Mr. Joseph 

 Woods, on Fairfield, near Ambleside, Westmoreland. Mr. Bi- 

 cheno. 



Perennial. July, August. 



Root of many tufted fibres. Stem solitary, a span high, erect, 

 round, striated, slender, bearing 2 or 3 leaves. Radical leaves 

 several, tufted, shortish, spreading, linear-lanceolate, nearly or 

 quite flat, bearing a few long scattered hairs ; stem-leaves chan- 

 nelled, upright, narrovi', with long sheaths. Panicle with 1 or 

 2 erect, leafy bractcas, solitary, terminal, drooping, an inch or 

 more in length, dark chocolate-coloured, ovate-oblong, obtuse, 

 many-flowered, dense, compound, more or less lobed, especi- 

 ally at the base, intermixed with lanceolate, pointed, membra- 

 nous, fringed or jagged, brown, interior bracteas, various in 

 length. Fl. nearly sessile, crowded, erect. Calyx-leaves lan- 

 ceolate, dark brown, with a .slender point, rather longer than the 

 capsule, which is elliptical rather than ovate, slightly pointed 

 with the base of the style, of a varnished chocolate brown ; the 

 valves thickened at the edges, and each furnished with a central 

 rib, or rudiment of a partition, but not more than in other spe- 

 cies. Seeds elliptical, nearly sessile, with some occasional traces 

 of a lateral line, but no decided crest. 



Juncus pediformis of Villars, unknown in Britain, is indeed nearly 

 akin to this plant, but much larger, paler, more lax in the pa- 

 nicle, and with broader leaves. The capsule is ovate, tapering 

 into a sharp point. Wahlenberg associates it with the following, 

 as a variety, but they appear very different. 



7. L. arcuata. Curved Mountain Wood-rush. 



Panicle somewhat umbellate, partly compound, with droop- 

 ing branches. Heads globose, of few flowers. Bracteas 

 membranous, fringed. Capsule elliptical. Leaves chan- 

 nelled. 



Juncus arcuatus. fVahlenb, Lapp. 87. t. 4. 



On the mountains of Scotland. 



On the most stony and barren summits of Cairngorum, and others 

 of the Grampian mountains. Professor Hooker. 



Perennial. Ji<ly. 



Root rather woody ; tufted and branched at the summit, invested 

 with several ribbed scaly sheaths. Stem 3 or 4 inches high, 

 erect, round, striated, bearing 1 or 2 leaves. Radical leaves 

 numerous, tufted, incurved, linear, channelled, very slightly 

 and partially haiiy ; stem -leaves somewhat flatter, with long 

 reddish sheaths. FL about 3 together, in small, round, more or 

 less stalked, heads, collected into a terminal panicle, whose 

 somewhat umbellate, recurved branches, various in number and 

 length, occasionally divided, are sheathed at their origin with one 



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