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JUNCACEJE. 



LlJZULA. 



Am. 2. p. 188 ; Kunth, enum. 3. p. 307. Juncus campestris, Linn. sp. 1. p. 329 ; Michx. 

 fl. 1. p. 190 ; Pursh, fl. 1. p. 238 ; £z°- e /. 5osL p. 140 ; Ell. sk. 1. p. 410. 



Rhizoma creeping, sometimes tuberous. Culm 6-12 inches high, leafy. Leaves 2-3 

 lines long ; the margin ciliate with long loose white hairs, and a tuft of similar hairs in the 

 throat of the sheath. Spikes 4-8, many-flowered, ovoid or sometimes oblong : one or more 

 of them nearly sessile ; the others on unequal peduncles, forming a sort of umbel, which is 

 subtended by 1 - 3 leafy bracts. Perianth .brownish, with scarious bracts at the base ; the 

 leaflets with a long mucronate tip. Stamens rather shorter than the perianth : anthers large, 

 linear-oblong, yellow. Style exserted, filiform : stigmas slender. Capsule membranaceous, 

 trigonous-obovoid. Seeds ovoid, dark brown, with a conical appendage at the base. 



Fields, dry woods, etc. : common. Fl. April - May. Fr. June. 



2. Luzula pilosa, WiNd. Broad-leaved Hairy Wood-rush. 



Cespitose ; leaves broadly linear, hairy ; peduncles numerous, in an umbellate corymb, 

 mostly one-flowered, the upper ones bent downward after flowering ; leaflets of the perianth 

 acuminate, shorter than the obtuse capsule; seeds with a curved appendage at the tip. — 

 Willd. enum. 3. p. 393 ; Torr.fl. I. p. 365 ; Beck, hot. p. 373 ; Hook. fl. Bor.-Am. 2. p. 188. 

 L. vernalis, Desv. jour, de hot. p. 138, ex Kunth, enum. 3. p. 297. Juncus pilosus, Linn, 

 sp. 1. p. 329 (in part) ; Muhl gram. p. 200. 



Rhizoma creeping. Stem 6-10 inches high, slender. Leaves with long white hairs on 

 the margin and towards the base ; the radical ones broadly linear. Peduncles 8 - 12, varying 

 from half an inch to three-fourths of an inch long, filiform, several of them finally bent down- 

 ward ; the leafy bracts at the base short. Perianth brown, scarious on the margin. Stamens 

 included. Seed with a falcate appendage at the summit. 



Open woods and banks of rivers : northern and western counties. Fl. May. 



3. Luzula parviflora, Desv. Small-Jloicered Wood-rush. 



Smooth ; stems elongated ; leaves broadly linear ; corymb decompound, loose, the peduncles 

 elongated, capillary ; pedicels one-flowered ; leaflets of the perianth ovate, acute and mucro- 

 nate, about the length of the oval obtuse apiculate capsule ; seeds without an appendage. — 

 Desv. jour, de hot. 1. p. 144 ; Kunth, enum. 3. p. 300. L. melanocarpa, Desv. I c. p. 142. 

 t. 5.f. 2 ; Torr. fl. 1. p. 366 ; Beck, hot. p. 373 ; Hook, fl. Bor.-Am. 2. p. 187 ; Kunth, 

 I. c. p. 299. Juncus parviflorus, "Rostk. junc. 26. t. 1. f. 1, ex Bong.'''' J. melanocarpus, 

 Michx. fl. I. p. 190 ; Pursh, fl. I. p. 238 ; Bigel. fl. Bost. p. 140. 



Stems 12-18 inches high, leafy, slender, usually growing scattered. Leaves 2-4 lines 

 wide. Flowers in a loose corymbose panicle, nodding ; the longer branches often 2 inches in 

 length : pedicels about 3 lines long. Leaflets of the perianth usually a little shorter than the 

 mature carpel. Capsule with a short abrupt point. Seeds oval, brown, smooth. 



Mountains in the northern part of the State, particularly those of Essex county. Fl. July. 

 Our plant agrees in every essential character with L. parviflora of the north of Europe. 



