Juncus Pilosus. Small Hairy Wood-Rush. 



JUNCUS Lin Gen. PL Hexandria Monogynia. 



Cat. 6-phyllus, Cor. o. Cap/, l-locularis. 



Rail Syn. Gen. 27. Herb,e graMin*foli,e flore imperfecto culmifer.£. 



JUNCUS pilofus foliis planis pilofis, corymbo ramofo. Lin. Syjl. Vegetab. p. 280. Sp. PL 468, 

 FL Suec. 308. 



JUNCUS foliis planis, hirfutus, floribus umbellatis, folitariis, petiolatis, ariftatis. Hatter hijl. 

 n. 1325. 



JUNCUS pilofus. Scopoli FL Cam. n. 435. 



GRAMEN nemorofum hirfutum latifolium minus. Bauhin pin. 7. 



GRAMEN nemorofum hirfutum. Ger. emac. 19. majus Park. 1184. 



GRAMEN nemorofum hirfutum vulgare. Rail Syn. p. 416. Small hairy Wood-Rufh. Hudfort* 

 FL Angl. p. 151. Lightjoot. FL Scot. p. 186. 



RADIX perennis, fibrofa, fibris numerofis, fufcis, fto- $ ROOT perennial, and fibrous, fibres numerous and 

 lonibus brevibus acutis quoque inftruitur, ita | brown, it is alfo furnifhed with fhort pointed 



ut fubrepens dici poteft. | fhoots, fo that it may be called fomewhat 



I creeping. 



CULMI plures, ex eademradice, fpithamaei et ultra, STALKS many from the fame root, about a fpan in 

 fuberefti, foliofi, fuperne nudi, fimplices, | length, fometimes more, nearly upright, 



lasves, ftriati, teretes, tribus aut quatuor ^ leafy, naked above, fimple, fmooth, ftria- 



geniculis minime protuberantibus inftrudi. | ted, round, furnifhed with three or four 



joints, which do not protuberate. 

 FOLIA radicalia plurima, tres quatuorve uncias | LEAVES next the root numerous, three or four 



longa, lineas tres, trefque cum dimidia lata, § inches long, and three lines or three and a 



ad bafin paulo anguftiora, parum concava, | half broad, fomewhat narrowed at the bafe 3 



fuperne obfcure plerumque virentia et Isevia $ a little concave, above generally of a dull 



glabraque, inferne dilutius virentia et glabra, | green colour, fmooth and rather gloffy, 



ad margines autem, raris et longis pilis | beneath of a paler green, and (lightly gloffy, 



villofa, denfius autem hirfuta funt verfus J> at the edges efpecially, covered with a few 



eorum origines, faepe rubentia, apice obtu- | long hairs, which are moft numerous towards 



fiufcula et fubtruncata, caulina plana. $ the bafe of the leaf, often of a reddifh colour, 



1 a little blunt and as it were cut off at the 



point, the ftalk leaves flat. 

 FLORES paniculati, panicula diffufa. | FLOWERS forming a fpreading panicle. 

 PEDUNCULI inasquales, pauci fimplices, plures § FLOWER-STALKS of unequal lengths, a few of 



proliferi, dichotomi et trichotomi, demum | them fimple, moft of them proliferous, di- 



retro porrecti, omnes uniflori, flofculis inter- <?> chotomous or trichotomous, finally ftretcht 



mediis feffilibus. | out backward, all ofthemfupporting afingle 



§ flower, the intermediate ones feflile. 



CALYX Gluma bivalvis, Jig. 1. Perianthium hexa- <j CALYX: a Glume of two valves, fig. 1. a Perianthi- 

 phyllum, foliolis oblongis, acuminatis, cari- ^ um of fix leaves, which are oblong, pointed, 



natis, concavis, ex purpureo fufcis, perfif- j> keel'd, concave, of a purplifh brown colour 



tentibus, jig. 2. au£L \ and permanent, jig. 2. magnified. 



COROLLA nulla. 4> COROLLA wanting. 



STAMINA: Filamenta fex, capillaria, breviffima, | STAMINA: fix Filaments, capillary and very 

 Anthers oblongae, erectae, flavse, fig. 3. § fhort; Anther/e oblong, upright, and 



1 yellow, jig. 3. 



PISTILLUM : Germen triquetrum, acuminatum; <t> PISTILLUM : Germen three-cornered, pointed; 

 Stylus brevis, filiformis ; Stigmata tria, | Style fhort, filiform: Stigmata three, 



longa, filiformia, villofa, jig. 4. § long, filiform, and villous, fig. 4,. 



The Juncus pilofus, fylvaticus, and campejlris, are diftinguifhed from the other fpecies, by their grafs-like 

 hairy leaves; the firft of thefe has fome little affinity with the campejlris already figured, but differs from it, 

 not only in its place of growth, but in having its flowers ftand fingly, and not in clufters ; while the campejlris 

 delights in expofed, the pilofus is found only in woods, and fhady fituations ; and from this circumftance we 

 may perhaps in fome degree account for its flowering earlier than any of the others, for if the feafon be not very 

 unfavourable, it will begin to flower in February, and is ufually out of bloom the beginning of May. 



We know of no ufe to which this fpecies, or the fylvaticus, is applicable; nor yet from the places they 

 inhabit, can they be confidered in any degree noxious in Agriculture. 



