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members of the subgenus. Its morphological characters also resemble those of 

 the European species more than any other members of the subgenus. 



4. Luzula luzulina (Vill.) Dalla Torre & Sarnth. 



Luzula luzulina (Vill.) Dalla Torre & Sarnth. Fl. Tirol 6: 426. 1906. 



Juncus luzulinus Vill. Hist. PI. Dauph. 2: 235. 1787. 



Juncodes luzulinwm (Vill.) O. Ktze. Kev. Gen. PI. 2: 724. 1891. 



Juncus flavescens Host, Gram. Austr. 3: 62. 1805. 



Luzula flavescens (Host) Gaudin, Agrost. Helv. 2: 239. 1811. 



Nemorinia flavescens (Host) Fourr. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, NS. 17: 172. 1869. 



Luzula hostii Desv. Jour. Bot. Desvaux 1: 140. 1808. 



Luzula hostii Desv. var. murrea Fourn. Monde PI. 205: 4. 1934. 



Luzula murrea (Fourn.) Fourn. Monde PI. 212: 12. 1935. 



Luzula pallcscens Hoppe, Flora 2: 185. 1819. 



Luzula callosa Raf. Autikon Bot. 193. 1840. 



Luzula pubescens Sehrank, Flora 2: 446. 1819. 



Juncus pallescens Sehrank, Flora 2: 445. 1819. nom. nud. 



Juncus pedatus Jacq. ex Schultes & Schultes, Syst. Veg. 7: 264. 1829 (as synonym of 

 Luzula flavescens) . 



Perennial; with stolons, to 8 (sometimes 15) cm long, 1 mm wide, with dark 

 brown scale-like leaves and slender adventitious roots ; blades of basal leaves flat, 

 to 15 cm long, 3-6 mm wide, margins glabrous to sparsely pubescent, apex callose- 

 tipped with a mucronate projection extending from it ; culms erect to slightly 

 ascending, slender smooth, 20-30 cm tall, bearing 2-3 leaves ; sheaths closed, gla- 

 brous to slightly pubescent at the throat, blades linear 2-3 mm wide, to 5 cm 

 long, margins glabrous to sparsely pubescent, callose-tipped with a short mu- 

 cronate extension; inflorescence terminal, simple (rarely a few secondary pedi- 

 cels are present) ; pedicels 4-7, spreading to reflexed ; basal bract erect, shorter 

 than the inflorescence, leaf -like, the margins usually glabrous, usually mucronate 

 tipped ; other bracts light brown, with or without hyaline margins ; inner bract 

 at the base of each pedicel usually truncate with a hyaline tip, sometimes pubes- 

 cent : outer bract usually equalling the inner, tip acuminate ; bracteoles ovate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, awned, light brown with hyaline margins, shorter than 

 the flower ; perianth segments similar, equal, lanceolate, entire, with a long 

 slender tip, brown to stramineous, 3.5^4.5 (rarely 5.0) mm long; stamens 6 

 shorter than the perianth, filaments linear white, anthers linear longer than 

 the filaments ; pistil erect, ovary three angled to round, style filiform 1 mm long, 

 stigmas erect 3 mm long; fruit exceeding the perianth, to 6.0 mm long, rostrate, 

 apex with the persistent base of the style, light brown to stramineous ; seeds dark 

 brown to black, 1.5 mm long; caruncle erect to slightly curved, 1.0 mm long to 

 as long as the seed. 



Type. In the original description no type is designated and no specimens are 

 listed. It is described in "Histoire des Plantes de Dauphine." Dauphine is a 

 former province of southeastern France, therefore this region is probably the 

 type locality of this species. 



Representative Specimens: AUSTRIA: E. Asplund (May 18, 1927) (US); J. Ball (July 

 4, 1863) (US), (July 19, 1867) (jGH), (May, 1874) (US); Fauhini (May, 1852) (K) ; Gorz 

 (July 8, 1914) (GH) ; B. Enter (June 20, 1865) (K) ; E. Falla 89 (GH, US). CZECHOSLO- 

 VAKIA: Domin # Suza 332 (GH, US); V. Krajina 333 (GH, K, US). FRANCE: J. Gay 

 (June 25, 1830) (US); A. Songesn (June 14, 1862) (US). GERMANY: F. G. Strobl (June 

 & July, 1868) (K), (May 25, 1869) (K), (June 2, 1869) (K) ; Traunsteiner 423 (GH, K) ; 

 F. Vollmann 1436 (GH, K). ITALY: Bohlena (Aug. 1923) (K). POLAND: Bulandzianl-a, 

 BawlowsTci $ Walas 80 (GH, K). SWITZERLAND: J. Ball (Aug. 1883) (G) ; C. Brugger 



