MONOCOTYLEDONOUS OR ENDOGENOUS PLANTS. 559 



§ 2. TuiANTHA. Itacemes compound, the.fiow«rs mccesnvebj openiny from (r<e apex 

 doumward {centrifugal) ; anthers innate; seeds uilh tail-like appendages at 

 each end. Pubescent herbs. 



T. PUBEXS, Ait. iS^em and pedicels roiigh-puberulent ; 

 leaves long, linear; racemes (3'-6' long) loosely flowered; 

 pedicels mostly three in a cluster, longer than the greenish 

 white flowers ; capsule as long as the perianth. September. 

 Stem l°-li° high; leaves G'-12' long. 



T. GLUTINOSA, Willd. Stem and pedicels clammy-pubes- 

 cent; leaves short, linear-sword-shaped; racemes {V \ot\^) 

 dense-flowered; pedicels 3-5 in a cluster, shorter than the 

 yellowish flowers ; capsule longer than the perianth. Juno. 

 Stem l°-l|-° high; leaves -i'-C long. 



145. EUSH FAMILY. Order, Juncace.^. 



Tough grass-like herbs, with naked or leafy and jointed 

 steins, flat or terete leaves, and regular cymose-clustered or 

 piimc\e(\. flotvers ; peria7it?i of six nearly equal calyx-like 

 persistent divisions; stamens^ or 6, inserted on the base 

 of the sepals ; anthers 2-celled, introrse, fixed at the base ; 

 ovary free from the perianth, 1-3-celled, 3-many-ovuled ; 

 stjjle single; stigmas oommonly 3, hairy; capsule septi- 

 cidally 3-valved ; seeds anatropous ; embryo minute at the 

 base of the albumen. 



SYNOPSIS. 



Capsule 1-celled, Z-seeded. Leaves mostly hairy Luzula. 



many-seeded., the placenta!, separating into the partitions. Smooth herhx, 



with alternate leaves Juncus. 



LUZULA, DC. WooD-RusiL 



Sepals flat ; stamens 6 ; style very short ; stigmas filiform, 

 villous; capsule 1-celled, 3-valved, 3-seeded; seeds erect 

 from the base of the cell. — Perennial herbs, with flat mostly 

 hairy /er^T.s and umbellate or spiked /oz^'crs. 



