Juncus Sylvaticus. Great 



Wood-Rush. 



JUNCUS Lin. Gen. PL Hexandria Monogynia. 



Cal. 6-phyllus. Cor. o. Cap/, l-locularls. 



Rail Syn. Gen. 27. Herb.*: graminifoli^e flore imperfecto culmifer.e. 



JUNCUS Jylvaticus foliis planis pilofis, corymbo decompofito 3 floribus fafciculatis feitilibus* 

 Hudjon Ft. Angl. p. 15 i. 



JUNCUS foliis planis hirfutis, floribus paniculatis, fafciculatis. Haller hifl. n. 1324. 



GRAMEN nemorofum hirfutum latifolium majus. Scheuch. Agrojl. p. 317. C. B. Pin. 7. 



GRAMEN nemorofum hirfutum latifoliurri maximum. Rati Syn. p. 416. The greater! broad- 

 leaved hairy Wood-Grafs. 



feRAMEN luzulas maximum. J. B. II. 493. Lightfooi Fl. Scot. p. 180. 



Authors have contributed not a little to miflead fludents, by defcribing this fpecies of Juncus, as uncom- , 

 monly large and fcarce, and it is probable that Mr. Ray would not have confidered it as a fpecies, had he 

 not by accident met with fome very luxuriant fpecimens of it; in certain fituations it doubtlefs may be found 

 very large, and tall, but it more ufually occurs with a ftalk a little more than a foot high ; of fome plants 

 growing in my garden, clofe to each other, in a moift, but not very fhady fituation, the comparative height 

 of the Juncus camp ejir is, pilofus, and Jylvaticus, was as follows, campejlris g inches, pilofus 11, and Jylva- 

 ticus 15 ; the account of its being a fcarce plant is flill more erroneous, as there is hardly a wood in the 

 neighbourhood of London, nor as far as we have obferved in any part of the kingdom, in which they do nolf 

 grow plentifully together.; they do fo at lead in Bifhop's-Wood, Hampftead, which is near the fpot where 

 Mr. Ray defcribes his plant as growing. 



By Linnaeus this plant is confidered as a variety only of the pi lojus : Mr. Hudson and Baron Haller, 

 examining it with more attention than Linnaeus, make a diftincl; fpecies of it, and give fuch a defcription of 

 it as cannot fail to make it known. 



To the characters given in their fynonyms above quoted, we may add that the leaves are not only much 

 broader, and more concave, but more fharply pointed than thofe of the pilofus, that it flowers three weeks 

 or a month later, and that when the flowering is over, the flower-ftaiks of the pilojus are more reflexed or 

 pendulous than thofe of the Jylvaticus. 



This fpecies flowers in May, or earlier if the feafon be a mild one. 



