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ON A SPECIES OF LUZULA NEW TO THE FLORA OF 
EUROPE DISCOVERED BY DR. F. WELWITSCH, WITH 
A REVIEW OF THE JUNCACEJE, COLLECTED BY HIM 
IN PORTUGAL. 
By Henry Trimen, M.B., F.L.S. 
list recently. published in Mr. Godman’s natural history of those islands. 
The subject of this article adds another bond to those already known to 
connect these floras, occurring as it does in the Canaries, Madeira, and 
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hen rearranging the Juncacez of the British Museum herbarium last 
year, I at once recognized in Dr. Welwitsch’s “ Luzula gracilis” from 
Portugal, a species not hitherto known to be European, nor was it difficult 
to perceive its identity with specimens from the Canary Islands, cojen 
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the plant (from one of which the accompanying drawing has been made) 
and with an authentic example of L. Berthelotii, Nees, from the Canary 
Islands, to which he had rightly referred them. the accompanying notes 
have also had the advantage of supervision by the same distinguished 
botanist and traveller. _ C 
- Watson MS. in sched. apes à 
Juncus purpureus, Buch in Abhandl. d. Kón. Acad. d. Wiss. in Berlin 
(1816-17) p. 362 ; Masson, MS. fide Meyer l. c. 
Luzula elegans, Lowe ! in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. vol. vi. p. 532 (1838) i 
non Guthnick MS. in sched. : 
L. Berthelotii, Nees ab Es. in litt. ad cl. Berthelot ; Webb ! and Berth. 
“tab. 236. 2 
b. R. Acad. Scientiar. Olissip. et FL Lusit. 
Exsicc n. 95. Bourgeau, Pl. Can. n. 152. 
Description => 
dice annua (?) cæspitosa, caule = 
foliis radicalibus late linearibus planis pilis E pinis ad oras mar 
mbo: U 
o: ureis ov vis idati 
latis acutis pellucidis subequalibus, 3 exterioribus valde cuspidatis 
purpureo-cupreis, 3 interioribus apiculatis pallidioribus antheris longitu- 
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