JUNCACE^. 



881 



attaining lj to 2 feet or more, and the 

 leaves a breadth of 3 or 4 lines and a 

 length of above a foot. Flowers in 

 little clusters of 2 or 3, in a large, loose, 

 compound panicle. Perianth rather 

 smaller than in the hairy W., the seg- 

 ments broader but with a fine point. 

 Capsule nearly of the same length. 

 Seeds without any appendage. 



In woods, chiefly in hilly districts, in 

 western, southern, and central Europe, 

 as far as central Germany and western 

 Scandinavia. Extends all over Britain. 

 Fl. early summer. 



Fig. 1062. 



3. Curved Woodrush. Luzula areuata, Hook. (Fig. 1063.) 

 (Eng. Bat. Suppl. t. 2688.) 



A small species, seldom attaining 6 

 inches, with the leaves channelled al- 

 most as in Hush, and without the white 

 hairs of our other Woodrushes. The 

 panicle consists of 3 or 4 clusters or 

 heads of 3 or 4 flowers each, about half 

 the size of those of the hairy W. ; the 

 central cluster sessile, the others on ra- 

 ther long, slender, curved peduncles. 

 Capsule nearly globular, shorter than 

 the perianth. Seeds without any ap- 

 pendage. 



A high northern species, frequent in 

 Arctic Europe, Asia, and America. In 

 Britain, only on the summits of the 

 Cairngoram and Sutherland mountains 

 in Scotland. Fl. summer. 



YOL. II. 



Fig. 1063. 



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