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3. L. pihka (Willd.) : 1. lanceolate hairy, panicle subcymose 
only slightly branched, pedtmcles 1 — 3-fl., upper ones reflexed 
after flowering, tl. solitary, style (excluding stigmas) exceeding 
stam., filaments about half as long as the anth., caps, blunt ex- 
ceeding the perianth, seeds with a falcate crest. — E. B. 736. St. 
77. 3.— St. slender, 6—12 in. high. Caps, ovoid, trigonous, sud- 
denly contracted above. — L. Borreri (JBrom£) seems to be an 
abortive state of this species. — Thickets. P. V. E. S. I. 
4. L. campes'tns (Willd.) ; 1. linear hairy, panicle of 3 or 4 
ovate dense sessile or stalked clusters, segments of perianth lan- 
ceolate-acuminate exceeding the blunt apiculate caps. ,Jilamenfs 
mtwh shortei- than the anthers, seeds nearly ylohdar with a basal 
appmdage.—E. B. 672. St. 77. 5.— St. 4—6 in. high. Anth. 
linear, about 6 times as long as the filaments. — Pastures and dry 
places. P.IV.V. E.S.I. 
5. L. multijl4ra (Lej.) ; 1. linear hairy, panicle of many ovate 
dense sessile or stalked clusters, segments of perianth naiTOwly 
lanceolate strongly acuminate exceeding the blunt apiculate 
ca.'p&.fjilaments nearly as long as the anthers, seeds nearly tioice as 
long as broad with a basal appendage. — -E. B. S. 2718. <S5!. 77. 7. 
L. congesta Sm. — ^St. 8 — 20 in. high. Filaments more than half 
as long as the rather short small anth. and often as long as 
them. Panicle with the clusters nearly all stalked, or O. L. 
congesta Lej., L. campestris ^. Hook.) contracted into a rounded 
lobed head. — Moorish and turfy places. P. VI. E. S. I. 
6. i. spicdta (DC.) ; 1. narrow slightly channeled haiiy, 
panicle oblong lobed nodding spikelike, clusters falling short of 
their bracts, segments of perianth narrow acuminate bristle- 
pointed, filaments half as long as the anthers, caps, blunt api- 
culate, seeds oblong with a very slight basal appendage. — E. B. 
1176.— St. 3—12 in. high. L. short, slender. Spike i— 1 in. 
long, nodding. Partial bracts tapering, bristle-pointed. — Moun- 
tains. P. VII. E. S. 
7. L. arcudta (Hook.) ; 1. channeled slightly hairy, panicle 
subumbellate of few 3— 5-flowered clusters on long drooping pe- 
duncles, .segments of perianth broadly-lanceolate bristle-pointed, 
filaments as long as the anthers, caps, roundish-ovate, seeds ob- 
long blunt or apiculate scarcely appendaged below. — E. B. S. 
2688. — St. slender, 2 — 5 in. long. L. short, curved, narrowly 
linear. Panicle of 3—5 small clusters, one nearlj' se.«sile, the 
others on long deflexed stalks. — Highest summits of the Caim- 
gorum and Sutherland Mountains. P. VII. \T;II. S. 
