HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Luciola. 99 



partitions. Panicle repeatedly compound ; branches 

 straddling, and bent back. Calyx-leaves blunt, as long 

 as the capsule. E. B. 2144. 



Marshes. > 



Per. August. 



Discr. Its pale, entangled, much branched panic, with last 



branchlets strongly bent back, L-joints cellular. Ls. two, mostly. 



Stem erect, two or three f. FL small, from the side of the stem 



and terminal, in small heads. 



LU'CIOLA.' Wood-rush. 



L. pilosa. Broad-leavedy Hairy Wood-r. Panicle sub- 

 cymose, widely spreading, and last branches bent back. 

 Flowers solitary. Capsule pointless. Crest of the 

 seeds hooked. Juncus pilosus. E. B. 736. C. 5. 

 25. Sb. 115. Gramen hirsutum nemorosum. G. 

 E. 19. 



Shady groves, thickets. 



Per. March. 



Stems six to twelve inches, polished, leafy. Ls. flat, linear-spear- 

 shaped, bright-shining-green, pointed, entire, fringed with distant 

 long white hairs. Panic, terminal. F"/. solitary, terminal, and 

 from the side of the stem, each accompanied with a pair of 

 sheathing, acute bract. CaL-Is. spear-shaped, pointed, dark- 

 brown, bordered with white. Anth. large, square, yellow. 

 Caps, pale-yellowish in contrast with the brown cal. 

 Herbage dry, tough. 



L. Forsteri. Narrow-leaved Hairy Wood-r. Panicle 



cymose, erect. Flowers solitary. Capsule pointed. 



Crest of the seeds straight and blunt. Juncus Forsteri. 



E. B. 1293. Luzula Forsteri. H. L. m. 

 Groves. Beech- Wood about a mile and a half from Henley, near 



road to High Wycombe. Bx. 

 Per. May. 

 Ls. much narrower. Panic, smaller. 



L. sylvdtica. Great TVood-r. Panicle sub-cymose, 

 doubly compound. Flowers and bracteas crowded. 

 Capsule pointed. Crest of the seeds scarcely distin- 

 guishable. Juncus sylvaticus. E. B. 737- C. 5. 26. 

 Sb. 116. 



1 From the heads of fl., wet with dew, and sparklinf;; by moonlight, giving 

 an idea of the lucciola (Ital. for <;lo\v-worm ) Mr. Hicheno derived great 

 assistance in distinguishing the species of L., from tlie shape, and crest (corun- 

 cula) of the seeds. See Fig. in Linn. Trans. V, XI J. 



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