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THE RUSH FAMILY. 



4. Field Woodrush. Luzula campestris, Br. (Fig. 1064.) 



(Juncus, Eng. Bot. t. 672, and L. congesta, Suppl. t. 2718. L. multi- 

 flora, Bab. Man.) 



The foliage, stature, and white hairs 

 are those of the hairy W., but the 

 flowers, instead of being single, are col- 

 lected 6 or 8 or more together in close 

 ovoid heads or clusters, of which from 

 3 to 6 form a small terminal panicle ; 

 the central cluster sessile, the others on 

 slender peduncles varying from a line or 

 two to an inch in length. Perianth-seg- 

 ments very pointed, brown, with light- 

 coloured shining edges, about 1\ lines 

 long. Capsule shorter and obtuse. 



In dry pastures, woods, and heaths, 

 throughout the northern hemisphere 

 without the tropics, and in some parts of 

 the southern hemisphere. Abundant in 

 Britain. Fl. spring. In some speci- 

 mens the peduncles are so shortened as 

 to give the inflorescence the appearance 

 of that of the spiked W., but the outer clusters are never quite ses- 

 sile, and the perianth is always much larger than in the spiked W. 



Fig. 104. 



5. Spiked Woodrush.. Luzula spicata, DC. (Fig. 1065.) 

 (Juncus, Eng. Bot. t. 1176.) 



Bather smaller than the field W., and 

 the flowers considerably smaller (about 

 f line long), in dense clusters, all sessile, 

 forming an ovoid or oblong terminal 

 spike, \ to near 1 inch long, and more 

 or less drooping, the lowest 1 or 2 clus- 

 ters often a little apart from the others, 

 but always sessile within a short leafy 

 bract. 



An alpine species, common in north- 

 ern and Arctic Europe, Asia, and Ame- 

 rica, and in the high mountain-ranges 

 of central and southern Europe, the 

 Caucasus, and Altai. Abundant in Scot- 

 land, very local in northern England 

 and North Wales, and unknown in Ire- 

 land. Fl. summer. 



Fig. 1065. 



