516 jUNCACE^. [Luzula. 



W. Med. — On the beach a little way out of Yarmouth eastward, and abundant 

 in ihe first meadow, or that nearest the sea, at Freshwater gate. 



/3. On muddy or sandy shores of the sea and of tide-rivers, and in salt-marsh 

 pastures ; frequent. [From our author's published notes in the ' Phylologist,' we 

 believe the above stations refer mainly to the var. /3., which is there enumerated 

 under the name of J. Gerardi, but the author adds, "and which I am disposed to 

 regard as a salt-marsh variety of J. compressus." — Edrs.'] 



12. J. bufonius, L. Toad Bush. " Stem dichotomous above 

 panicled, leaves filiform setaceous grooved, flowers solitary unila- 

 teral mostly sessile, capsules oblong obtuse much shorter than the 

 very acuminated leaflets of the perianth." — Br. Fl. p. 451. E. B. 

 t. 802. Host. Grain. Aust. iii. 60, t. 90. 



In damp sandy or gravelly spots where water has stood, by roadsides, the mar- 

 gins of ponds, and other wet places; abundantly, i?/. August, i^r. September ? 

 October. 0. 



Capsules elliptical-oblong, bluntly triquetrous, very obtuse at top, yellowish 

 brown and yellowish, shining and minutely punctulato- striate, submucronate, 

 usually much shorter than the very acuminate and erect perianth-segments. Seeds 

 very numerous and minute, pale brown and pellucid, mostly roundish ovoid or a 

 litlle oblong, finely and rugosely striated longitudinally, without a tunic, tipped at 

 each end with a brownish point. 



III. Luzula, DeCand. Wood-rush. 



" Perianth of 6 leaves, glumaceous. Filaments glabrous. Stig- 

 mas 3. Capsule 1-celled, 3-valved ; valves without dissepiments. 

 Seeds 3, at the bottom of the capsule. (Leaves soft, platie, gene- 

 rally hairy)." — Br. Fl. 



Perennial herbs, closely allied to the last genus in their inflorescence, but with 

 flat, grass-like, filamentuse leaves, and flowering for the most part much earlier. 

 Natives of all parts of the globe, in woods or on high mountains, more rarely in 

 open pastures. 



* Panicle decompound. Flowers solitary m- few together on the spreading or 

 defiexed peduncles. 



1. L. sylvatica, Birch. Great Wood-rush. "Leaves hairy, 

 panicle subcymose doubly compound, peduncles elongated of 

 about 3 fascicled flowers, leaflets of the perianth aristate as long as 

 the ovate mucronate capsule, seed minutely tubercled at the end, 

 filaments very short." — Br. Fl. p. 453. L. maxima, DC. Juncus 

 sylvaticus, Huds. : E. B. t. 737. J. pilosus 3'., L. J. maximus, 

 Willd. : Host. Gram. Aust. iii. 65, t. 98. 



In woods, groves and heathy ground, amongst bushes, mostly in hilly situations, 

 but not general. Fl. April — June. Fr. June. 2^. 



E. Med. — Woods about Shanklin and Cook's castle, as in Cowpit-cliff wood, 

 Hungevberry copse. Apse farm, &c. Abundant on a dry bushy bank at Apse 

 castle, above the htlle stream that skirts the hill on the N.W. side. In the Par- 

 sonage lynch, Nevvchurch, also in another wood near that place, plentifully, 1837. 

 Little Standen wood, near Newport, abundant. 



The largest and handsomest of the British Luzulse, growing in dense tufts. 

 Root thick, creeping, fibrous, throwing up leafy bunches. Stems erect, 1 — 2 feet 

 high, round, leafy, smooth and striated. Leaves numerous, tufted, sheathing, 

 bright green, smooth and shining, taper-pointed, ^ an inch or more broad at the 

 base, concave, quite entire along iheif edges, which are thinly fringed with long. 



