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XCVIX. JUNCACE^E. 
\_Luzula. 
20. J. triglumis IL. (three-flowered R.) ; leaves linear- 
subulate channelled bitubular their sheaths auricled above, 
flowers mostly 3 generally as long as the membranous brac- 
tea, capsule elliptical acute longer than the rather obtuse sepals. 
E. B. t. 899. 
Boggy places among the mountains in the north of England, Wales, 
and especially the Highlands of Scotland, y. 7,8. — -Mr. Bentham 
unites this and the last species; but BIr. W. Wilson, who had paid 
much attention to the two, has observed of this plant: “ Sterns several 
from the same root, perfectly rounded, not channelled on one side, as 
in J. biglumis, naked above, and generally with 2, and sometimes 3 
leaves near the base. Leaves with dilated sheaths, which are auricled 
at the top, setaceous, channelled, bitubular, with transverse partitions ; 
radical leaves also setaceous, more slender and longer than in J. 
biglumis. Sometimes 4 flowers are found together, the additional 
ones placed lower down and separated from the rest. Outer bractea 
sometimes as large as in J. biglumis: each flower has one bractea at 
its base. Sepals more membranous than in the last, narrower and 
more acute. Capsule longer than the calyx, with a tapering rather 
acute extremity, and with indistinctly furrowed sides ; colour almost 
black.” 
2. Luzui.a De Cand. Wood-rush. 
Perianth of 6 sepals, glumaceous. Filaments glabrous. Stig- 
mas 3. Caps. 1-celled, 3-valved ; valves without dissepiments. 
Seeds 3, at the bottom of the capsule. (Leaves soft, plane , 
generally hairy.) — Name: the Gramen Luzulce of Bauhin; and 
Luzula, Smith tells us, is altered from lucciola , or luzziola, a 
glow-worm ; because the heads of flowers, wet with dew and 
sparkling by moonlight, gave some idea of those brilliant 
insects. 
1. L. sylvdtica Bich. (great hairy W.) ; leaves hairy, panicle 
subeymose doubly compound, peduncles elongate of about 3 
fascicled flowers, sepals aristate as long as the ovate mucronate 
capsule, seed minutely tubercled at the end, filaments very 
short. L. maxima DC. Juncus sylvaticus Huds.: E.B. t. 737. 
J. pilosus S. L. 
Woods, hilly places, and upon the mountains, frequent, y . 5, 6. 
Stem 1 — 14 foot high, woody under ground. Leaves broad, shining, 
striate. Floral bracteas ciliate. Caps, with a very sharp point, deep 
brown. Seeds elliptic-ovate, with scarcely any crested appendage on 
the top. 
2. L. pilosa Willd. (broad-leaved hairy TF); leaves hairy, 
panicle subeymose but little branched spreading, peduncles 1 
— 3-fiowered bent back when in fruit, sepals acuminate rather 
shorter than the retuse capsule, its valves truncate, recent seeds 
