100 HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Luciola. 



PFoods, thickets. North side of Shotover Hill. Stow Wood. Tar 

 Wood. Sb. (Bagley Wood. Copse between Childswell Farm, 

 and Wootten Heath. Bx.) 



Per. May. 



Discr. from L. pilosa by its greater size : by the fl. growing in 

 clusters, about three in each, branches of the panic, less strad- 

 dling, not hanging down. 

 This with L. pilosa for packing, and stuffing mattresses. 



Stem three or four ft. Ls. flat, linear-spear-shaped, sharp-pointed, 

 hairy at the margin, root-ones half an inch or more in breadth. 

 Stem-Is. smaller, shorter. Bract, linear, acute, hairy. 



L. campestris. Field IVood-r. Panicle of three or four 

 egg-shaped, dense, partly stalked clusters. Capsule 

 inversely egg-shaped, blunt, with a small point, shorter 

 than the calyx. Seeds stalked, without a crest. Leaves 

 flat. Juncus campestris. E. B. 672. C. 2. 19. Sb. 

 116. Gramen exile hirsutum. G. E. 17* 



Dry^ barren pastures. 



Per. April. 



Conspicuous by its large, sulphur antli., and dark-copper-brown 



husks. 



Root creeping. Stems four or five inches, simple, straight, leafy. 

 Ls. linear-spear-shaped, acute, very hairy on the margin. Panic. 

 terminal, at length drooping, one nearly stalkless. FL stalkless, 

 three or four torn bract, at the base. Cal.-ls. spear-shaped, 

 pointed. Style slender. 



L. congesta. Many-headed Flaxen TFood-r. Panicle of 

 numerous, roundish-egg-shaped, dense, partly stalked, 

 clusters. Capsule inversely egg-shaped, blunt, with a 

 small point, as long as the calyx. Seeds stalked with- 

 out a crest. Leaves flat, rough-edged. Var. of L. 

 campestris ? Juncus campestris /3 elatior. Sb. Gra- 

 men capitulis globosis. G. E. 18. Purton Fl. p. 

 352. V. iii. pt. ii. fig. 



Marshy, turfy ground. Peat bogs on BuUingdon Green. Ensham 

 Heath. Sb. North side of Shotover Hill. (Bagley Wood. B.v.) 



Per. April. 



Stem erect, eighteen inches. Ls. much narrower than in L. cam- 

 pestris. Panic, very different, of seven or eight roundish, egg- 

 shaped, dense, blunt, clusters, the first almost stalkless, the rest 

 on long, partly spreading stalks. Cal. paler, more taper-pointed, 

 scarcely extending beyond the caps. 



Discr. from L. campestris : size of the plant, quantity of flax-like 

 substance, large cylindric heads, on fruit-stalks from an inch to 

 an inch and a halfj and its^. full a month later. Purton. 



