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found in the Isle of Wight, Sussex, and Herefordshire, which seems 

 never to perfect its seeds : although larger and in some places more 

 abundant than either, it seems to be a hybrid ; the late Dr. Brom- 

 '1 field proposed to call it L. Borreri, and, if a species, may be charac- 

 W^I terised thus: — Leaves hairy; panicle subcymose, slightly branched, 



'll|^ oblong, with long narrow acuminate bract at its base ; peduncles 



oj^' 1 — 2-flowered, nearly all erect; sepals acuminate, much longer than 



rJi the (unripe) capsule, its valves acute; seeds with a. " straight blunt 

 l^.'i appendage or crest :" Bromf, 



''4f 4. L. campestris Br. (^Field TF.) leaves liairy, spikes dense 



^fk somewhat umbellate or contracted into a rounded lobed head, 

 ani^j leaflets of the perianth acuminate longer than the obtuse 



apiculate capsule, seeds with a short conical stalk*like appen- 

 dage at the base. Juncus i. — a. filaments about 6 times 

 shorter than the anther, seeds nearly globose. Juncus E. B. 

 t 672. — /3. taller, filaments from half as long to as long as the 

 anther, seeds twice as long as broad. L. congesta Lej, : E, B. S. 

 t. 2718. L. multiflora Koch, 



Woods and dry pastures, frequent ; a. and 0. growing together. 

 %. 4, 5. — Stem 4 — 6 or 8 inches, or even one foot or more high. 

 Flowers collected into ovate or oblong nearly erect spikes, of a reddish- 

 brown colour, sometimes very pale. In j8. the spikes are often nearly 

 all sessile : De CandoUe, whom Smith quotes as the authority for 

 considering this a distinct species, himself now, in the Bot, Gallicum, 



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makes it a var, of campestris; indeed we find various intermediate 

 states. Even the L. Sudetica of DC. will probably prove not per- 

 manently distinct from campestris; all of them are united by Kunth, 

 En. iii. p. 308. 



5. L, arczidte Hook, {curved Mountain W.)\ leaves channelled 

 hairy, panicle subumbellate of few 3 — 5 -flowered heads with 

 long drooping peduncles, bracteas membranous fringed, capsule 

 ovate-globose apiculate shorter than the broadly lanceolate 

 mticronate-aristate sepals, filaments as long ^ as the anthers. 

 £.j5.>S. t. 2688. 



On the barren stony summits of the great Cairngorm range of 

 mountains. Upon Fonniven, a liigh mountain in Sutherland, and in 

 Assynt. 1\.\ 7. — The smallest of our Luzulce and one of the rarest 

 and most distinct. It comes nearer Mr. Brown's L, hyperhorea than 

 any other, but that wants the curved peduncles. Seeds without an 

 appendage at the top, and with scarcely any at the base. 



6. L. spicdta DC. (spiked Mountain W.) ; leaves somewhat 

 channelled, spike solitary drooping compound, spikelets shorter 



t\ than their subdiaphanous mucronate bracteas, sepals narrow 

 \^i^ mucronate-aristate about as long as the rounded apiculate 



capsule, filaments nearly as long as the anthers. Juncus L. : 

 rf| E,B.u 1176. 



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