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often compound of many (in well-developed examples 10-20 
clusters, branches slender, mostly erect, very unequal. Clusters, 
except the large central sessile one, small roundish oblong or 
oblong, of 4-20 small flowers. Perianth-segments pale, yellowish- 
brown at the centre, outer ovate acuminate long- pointed wees 
exceeding the ae séarhin towards the apex incurved, abou 
165 to 1:87 mm.* long, about 6 mm. broad, inner Ap 
ovate edie alrhout mucronate, about 1:35 to 1:5 mm. long, 
about ‘45 to ‘52 mm. broad. Stamens are halt the iogth of 
the outer perianth-segments, filaments usually slightly longer than 
the anthers. Fruit dark chestnut brown when ripe, valves in- 
cluding the beak about 1:65 mm. long, about ‘97 mm. broad. 
Seeds ane sais ‘75 to ‘9 mm. long (not including appendage), 
to- 
A very alaifant plant, strikingly different from all the ordinary 
a of L. mult tiflora. It may be distinguished from that —_* 
by the difference in the size and shape of the inner and oute 
perianth- oe me ae in which character it agrees with L. sclebiad 
C. differs from both DL. multiflora and L. sudetica by the 
more slender and less rigid atema,; narrower leaves, more slender 
a biaye oo more roared clusters, smaller and more numer- 
us flowers, smaller fruits, and minute seeds, the latter being in 
the Huntingdonshire a less than a quarter the size of those 
of L. multiflora 
L. pallescens ‘differs in the lighter colour of the plant and the 
ale greenis wn n sudetica ~~ 
latter are dark b Buchenau describes the fruit of L 
‘pallescens was first described and figured by Linnzwus in 
137 in the Flora Lapponica, and the specimen from which his 
[L. campestris] ad quem proxime accedit, differt quod 1. folia 
i 2 
ie glabra sint & angustiora. 2. spice in hac plures, decem vel 
cim 3. spic ius ot ovate, albicantes sint 4 
pedunculi ogee Sake sustinentes longiores sint & versus idem 
en a variety of Saas campestris It was raised to specific rank 
under the binominal name J. pallescens by Wahlenberg in 1812. 
Besser ort transferred Wahtiebioes s name to Luzula without 
a descripti 
Dr. nau, the monographer of the Juncacee, placed 
= nitions, z sudetica, and L. pallescens as varieties of his large 
cies L. campestris, and this course is adopted by some other 
Continental authors. In dealing with the Juncacee of the world 
as Buchenau did in his Monograph, there may be som ething to be 
said in favour of the plan of adopting large aggregate species, such 
¥: : The measurements gre all taken from the Huntingdonshire specimens, 
