Luzula.] JUNCACE^. 517 



while, silky hairs. Flowers clustered, 2 or 3 together, in a large, terminal, com- 

 pound, diffuse or spreading panicle, their peduncles in part strongly deflexed, with 

 an acute, sheathing, membranous, ribbed and hairy bract at the base of each. 

 Segments of the perianth ovato-lanceolate, thin, bmwnish at the edges, with a 

 greenish midrib, and terminating in a small point or mucro. Stamens about as 

 long as the perianth ; anthers large, pale yellow. Germen with 3 blunt salient 

 angles ; style straight, angular ; stigmas 3, twisted. Capsules much smaller than 

 in the two following species, chestnut-brown, obtusely trigonate, shining, about 

 equal to the segments of the perianth, excluding the lung, very sharp, mucronate 

 point. Seeds 3, dark reddish brown, somewhat pellucid, ova to-elliptical, striato- 

 rugulose,with a very small roundish and flattened crest or caruncle ; smaller than 

 those of L. Forsteri. 



2. L. pilosa, Willd. Broad-leaved Hairy Wood-rush. " Cee- 

 spitose, leaves hairy, panicle subcymose but little branched spread- 

 ing, peduncles 1 -flowered bent back when in fruit, sepals acumi- 

 nate rather shorter than the retuse capsule, its valves truncated, 

 seeds with a long hooked appendage at the top, filaments about 

 half the length of the anthers." — Br. Fl. p. 453. Juncus pUosus, 

 L. : Host. Grain. Aust. iii. t. 110. E. B. t. 736. 



In rather dry groves, thickets, and on bushy banks, often amongst dead leaves ; 

 very common. Fl. March — May. Fr. May, June. 2^. 



In Quarr copse, St. John's wood, Firestone copse, and other places about Eyde. 

 Common at Apse castle. 



Root creeping and densely tufted with capillary brownish fibres, emitting 

 numerous erect or inclining simple stems, from about 6 to 12 inches high, round, 

 slender, smooth, solid and leafy. Radical leaves numerous, mostly shorter than 

 the stems, linear-lanceolate, broader than in L. Forsteri, flat, and pointed with 

 thickened, pale brown, callous tips, gradually attenuated downwards into their 

 brownish, membranous, concave bases, more or less beset along their margins with 

 white, flocculent, silky hairs ; stem-leaves few, distant, alternate, much shorter than 

 the rest and usually more hairy, especially at the tgp of their close glabrous 

 sheaths; all dark green or partly russet-brown, glabrous and somewhat shining. 

 Panicle subcymose, of a rounder more irregular outline than in L. Forsteri, its 

 branches once or twice unequally forked, and, as well as the pedicels or ultimate 

 divisions, divaricate, spreading or reflexed in various degrees, particularly in seed, 

 subtended at its base by an erect brad, much broader and more leaf-like than in 

 L. Forsteri or L. Borreri. Flowers solitary, the size of those of L. Forsteri. 

 Bracts mostly 2, sheathing the base of each flower, broadly ovato-scariose, acute 

 or acuminate. Segments of (he perianth lanceolate, very acute, mucronato-acumi- 

 nate, dark chestnut-brown, their points and margins whitish and scariose, the three 

 inner segments flat, the outer concave, keeled. Anthers pale yellow, linear-ellip- 

 tical, above twice the length of the greenish and flattish _/iiame)!*s. Germen ovoid- 

 trigonous, much shorter than the stamens. Capsule broadly ovoid, trigonous, 

 obscurely 3-lobed, with as many very blunt angles, the summit very obtuse or 

 rounded, with a subconical figure, sometimes minutely tipped with the base of the 

 style, but scarcely mucronate, much longer than the persistent perianth. Seeds 

 exactly resembling in form, size and colour those of L. Forsteri, but furnished 

 with a similar appendage about twice the length, attenuated into a point and 

 uucinately contorted. 



3. L. Borreri, Nob. Borrer's Wood-rush. " Leaves lax droop- 

 ing," "peduncles strongly divaricate and reflexed," "caj^sule shorter 

 than the erect or converging perianth ovoid somewhat acute tri- 

 gonous," " seeds with a straight blunt appendage," " anthers some- 



