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XCYII. JUNCACE^. 



U-uzuIa. 



2. LuzuLA De Cand. Wood-rush. 



mas 3. 



Pma?2i'A of 6 leaves, glumaceous. Filameiits glahrons. Stic. 



Caps. 1-celled, 3-valved ; valves without dissephnents' 

 Seeds 3, at the bottom of the papsule. (Leaves soft plane 

 generally hairy.) — N"ame : the Gramen Liizidce of Bauhin' 

 Lxizula, Smith tells us, is altered from liicciola^ or luzzioh a 

 glow-worm; because the heads of flowers, wet with dew and 

 sparkling by moonlight, gave the elegant Italiansan idea of 

 those brilliant insects. Hence the learned author of the 



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orthography. 



subcymose doubly compound, peduncles elongated of about 3 

 fascicled flowers, leaflets of the perianth aristate as lono- as the 



ovate mucronate capsule, seed minutely tubercled at tlie end 

 ^^.r^c...,. ,..™ .1..,,^ L^ maxima DC. "" ' ' ' 



filaments very short. 

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J. pilosus 5. i. 



Juncus sylvaticus 



Woods, hilly places, and upon the mountains, frequent. %. s,6. 

 Stem 1 — li ft. high. Leaves broad, shining, striate. Floral hracteas 

 cfliated.^ Caps, with a very sharp point, deep brown. AS-eec/s elliptic- 

 ovate, with scarcely any cxepted appendage on the top. 



2. L. j)il6sa Willd. (hroad-leaved hairy W.); ca^spitose or 

 stoloniferous, leaves hairy, panicle subcymose but little branched 

 spreading, peduncles l_3-flowered bent back when in fruit, 

 sepals acuminate rather shorter than the retuse capsule, its 

 valves truncate, recent seeds with a long hooked appendage 

 at the top, filaments flattened about half the lenp-th of the 

 anthers. Juncus Z.: E. B. t. 736. '^ 



Wood 



n. 3—3. 



Much smaller than the last, with 

 the fowers standing singly on the panicle, dark brown. Capsule 

 broadly ovate, contracted below the summit where it Is so retuse as 



to appear truncate, 

 at the point. 



Appendage of the seeds hooked and recurved 



3. L. Forsteri DC, {narroiv4eaved hairy TF.}; ca^spitose, 

 leaves hairy, panicle subcymose subtended by a narrow linear 

 bractea but little branched contracted, pedimcles 1 -flowered 

 nearly all erect, sepals narrow acuminate a little longer than 

 the acute capsule, its valves acute or acuminate, recent seeds 

 with a straight obtuse appendage at the top, filaments com- 

 pressed ascending about as long as or slightly shorter than the 

 anther. Juncus E. B. t. 12&3. 



Groves and thickets, especially on a calcareous or gravelly soil. 

 More common in Surrey and Isle of Wight than X. ;)27o5fl. 

 lorfar, and banks of the Doune, Ayrshire. 1^. 3_g. _ Much 

 slenderer than the last in every part and taller. Seed with a large 

 oblong crested appendage on the top. ~ Somewhat intermediate be- 

 tween this and the last, but apparently different from both, i& a plant 



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