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i ON A SPECIES OF LUZULA. 
dine filamenti, stylo ovarii longitudine (ex Kunth), capsulis (in spec. 
Canariensibus) globos o-triangularibus apiculatis e bec i4 
Breniontiue di ide. brunneis, seminibus inappendieulati 
Locality 
On Baap p dedlivitios near the summit of a hill called Serra de S. Luiz 
ar Palmella, in the Serra de Arrabida (prov. Estremad. transtagana). 
Fine collected » Dr. Welwitsch, on April 4th, 1847 ; not yet "quite 
n flow 
This pretty and delicate species was first noticed in the Canary Islands, 
— by Masson, in 1778. His specimens are in the herbarium of the British 
Museum, labe ; j has been since eollected 
there by Webb, Forsyth, H. Mann, Mandon and aiglas TA Rev. R. 
T. Lowe found it in Madeira, and bss kindly given me specim The ex 
amples from Portugal are smaller in size than "vt from Teneriffe, some 
of i wes. as much as 15 or pain in. in heig 
a very distinct on near t ally i is L. spadicea, De 
Cand., var. A glabrat a, Hoppe, ftom | which it is distinguished by the much 
divaricated, or even reflexed, een the hairy leaves, the colour 
the e flowers, and the much shor capsule. From L. Forsteri, with 
Te its affinity is less close, it is 2 Maal by its inappeadicalmed seeds 
different panicle, much smaller-and more numerous flowe 
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othe Sato In the api gcn the panicle frequently edi 
SE is, and by H. C. V n (Hook. Lon Ys 5 rn. Bot., vol. i ii. pp- 
608-9) to his L. azorica, which e now d Azores, p. "D con- 
siders the same as Seubert’ s plant. This is figured in the * Flora Azorica,’ 
and Is very different from our plant ; there. are specimens of it in the 
herbarium i 
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Madeira plant, Z. Senb erli, Lowe, in Hook. Journ. Bot., viii. 300, for 
age of which I am indebted to Mr. Lowe—should perhaps be united 
Description or Tan. CXXII. 
Luzula purpure: a, Link, from As 
specimen collected in Poner lby Dr. 
I x Flower: b. ripe caps inis with perianth and bracts ; aood: all 
(b. and c. drawn from Teneriffe specimens collected by Bourgean). * 
REVISION OF PORTUGUESE JUNCACE.E. 
gm Welwitsch ring kindly assisted me by lending me Mov 
uncaceæ collected by him in Portugal, I am with e per 
ncae, 
a 
mission, to give a lis of them. So little has been ublished on 
the plants of Port — EE excellent ‘Flora - sitanica* of 
the 
Brotero, in 1804, that any ae towards the bie of the 
* Link and Meyer each quote « M t it is not 
bid. “attached to a a for the name purpurea; bu 
Mise to his s specimen 
nor in his MSS, preserved in the m tih 
