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105. Juncus. 12. JlJNCEiE. 
PI. end. ph. 
22. Juncus ohtusiflorus. Bluntflowered junk. 
Leaves round, knotted, jointed ; panicle very much di- 
vided above, divaricated; sepales elliptical, obtuse, the 
length of the capsule. 
Gramen junceum sylvaticurn, Ger.em. 22,9. 
Juncus obtusiilorus, Ehr. Gram. 16. 
Juncus articulatus /3, Smith FI. Brit. 379, excluding the synonyms. 
Stagnant watery places; perennial; July, August. 
Root horizontal; culm upright, very smooth, fistulous, 
3 feet high ; leaves 2 or 3, long, thick, stiflj cylindrical, 
smooth, jointed, cellular ; sheaths short, pale : ligula short, 
obtuse, 2-cut ; cory mhus terminal, very much branched, 
entangled ; ultimate ones often retracted ; flowers small, 
4 or 5 in a head; edge of the sepales scariose, broad, 
brownish; capsules light brown, shining, oval, straight, 
blunt, mucronate. 
III. 106 . LUZULA. Luzula. 
Perigonium 6-parted, glumaceous, persisting ; hracteolce 
3 or 4, glumaceous ; stamens 6, short ; stigmata 3 ; capsule 
1-celled, 3-valved; seeds 3, affixed at the base. — Root per- 
ennial ; culm upright, jointed below the sheath, round, 
smooth, more or less leafy; leaves flat, lanceolate, edge fringed 
with hygrometical hairs ; sheaths smooth ; ligula pilose ; 
corymhus terminal, many-flowered. 
1. Luzula pilosa. Hairy luzula. 
Corymhus very much divided, becoming divaricated ; 
flowers solitary; sepales ovate, acute; capsule cordate, ob- 
tuse; caruncle of the seed hooked. 
Gramen nemorosum hirsutum vulgare, Raii Syn. 416, 3. 
Gramen nemorosum hirsutum, Gcr. em. 17. 
Gramen nemorosum hirsutum majus, Park. 1184. 
Juncus pilosus, Lin. S. P. 468. 
Juncus nem irosus, Lam. Enc. Meth. 3, 273. 
Juncus luzulinus, Fill. Delph. 2,235. 
Juncus vernalis, Ehrli. Gram. 109. 
Luzula vernal is, De Cand. Syn. FI. Gall. 182. 
Luzula pilosa, Willd. Hort. Ber. 393. 
Hairy wood-rush. Hairy wood-grass. 
Woods and hedges; perennial; April and May. 
Roots in tufts, stoloniferous ; culm 12 in. high, slender, 
simple; leaves broad; corymhus spreading; flowers lateral 
and terminal ; sepales acute, dark brown, edge white ; 
capsules inversely heartshaped, narrowed towards the 
middle. 
