374 90. JITNCACEiE. 



3. L. pildsa (Willd.) ; 1. lanceolate hairy, panicle suboymose 

 only slig^htly branched, peduncles 1 — 3-fl., upper ones reflexed 

 after flowering, fl. solitary, style (excluding stigmas) exceeding 

 stam., filaments about half as long as the auth., caps, blunt ex- 

 ceeding the perianth, seeds with a falcate crest. — JS. B. 73Li. St. 

 77. 3. — St. slender, 6 — 12 in. high. Caps, ovoid, trigonous, sud- 

 denly contracted above. — L. Borren (Bromf.) is a sterile form 

 with shorter and acuter capsules. — Thickets. P. V. E. S. I. 



4. i. campes'tris (Willd.) ; 1. linear haiiy, panicle of S or 4 

 ovate dense sessile or stalked clusters, per.-segm. lanceolate- 

 acuminate exceeding the blunt apiculate ca,^s.,Jilaments much 

 shorter than the anthers, seeds nearly globular with a basal ap- 

 pendage.— E. B. 672. St. Tl. 5.— St. 4—6 in. high. Anth. 

 linear, about 6 times as long as the filaments. Large forms often 

 mistaken for Sp. 5. — Pastures and diy places. P. I v. V. E. S. I. 



6. L. nmltifldra (Lej.) ; 1. linear hairy, panicle of many ovate 

 dense sessile or stalked clusters, per.-segm. narrowly lanceolate 

 strongly acuminate exceeding the blunt apiculate ctt^s., filaments 

 more than J as long as the anthers, seeds nearly twice as long as 

 broad rvith a basal ajjpendage. — B. B. S. 2718. St. 77. 7. L. 

 congesta Sm. — St. 8 — 20 in. high. Anth. small, rather short. 

 Clusters on elongate drooping stalks, or (Z. conffesta Lej.) sub- 

 sessile in a rounded lobed head, or a few stalked. — A^et and 

 turfy places. P. VI. E. S. I. 



6. L. spicdta (DC.) ; 1. narrow slightly channelled hairy, 

 panicle oblong lobed nodding spikelike, clusters falling short of 

 their bracts, per.-segm. narrow acuminate bristle-pointed, fila- 

 ments half as long as the anthers, caps, blunt apiculate, seeds 

 oblong with a very slight basal appendage. — E. B. 1176. — St. 3 

 — 12 in. high. L. short, slender. Spike ^ — 1 in. long, nodding. , 

 Partial bracts tapering, bristle-pointed. — Mountains. P. VII. 



E. S. 



7. L. arcudta (Hook.) ; 1. channelled slightly hairy, panicle 

 subumbellate of few 3 — 5-flowered clusters on long drooping pe- 

 duncles, per.-segm. broadly-lanceolate bristle-pointed, filaments 

 as long as the anthers, caps, roundish-ovate, seeds oblong blunt 

 or apiculate scarcely appendaged below. — E. B. S. 2G88. — St. 

 slender, 2 — 5 in. long. L. short, curved, narrowly linear. 

 Panicle of 3 — 5 small clusters, one nearly sessile, the others on 

 long deflexed stalks. — Highest summits of the Cairngorum and 

 Sutherland Mountains. P. VII. ? ' S. 



