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with a long hooked appendage at the top, filaments flattened 
about half the length of the anthers. Juncus Z.: E.B.t. 
736. 
Woods, frequent. If. 3 — 5. — Much smaller than the last, with 
the flowers standing singly on the panicle, dark brown, Capsule 
broadly ovate, contracted below the summit where it is so retuse as 
to appear truncate. Appendage of the seeds hooked and recurved at 
the point. 
3. L. Fursteri DC. ( narrow-leaved hairy W.) ; leaves hairy, 
panicle subcymose subtended by a narrow linear bractea but 
little branched contracted, peduncles 1 -flowered nearly all 
erect, sepals narrow acuminate a little longer than the acute 
capsule, its valves acute or acuminate, recent seeds with a 
straight obtuse appendage at the top, filaments compressed 
ascending about as long as or slightly shorter than the anther. 
Juncus E. B. t. 1293. 
Groves and thickets, especially on a calcareous or gravelly soil. 
More common in Surrey and Isle of Wight than L. pilosa. About 
Forfar, and banks of the Doon, Ayrshire. If.. 3 — 6 Much more 
slender than the last in every part, and taller. Seed with a large 
oblong crested appendage on the top. Intermediate between this and 
the last, is a plant found in the Isle of Wight, Sussex, and Hereford- 
shire, which seems never to perfect its seeds: although larger, and in 
some places more abundant than either, it seems to be a hybrid ; the 
late Dr. Bromfield named it L. Borreri, and, if a species, it may 
be characterised thus : — Leaves hairy ; panicle subcymose, slightly 
branched, oblong, with long narrow acuminate bracteas at its base ; 
peduncles 1 — 2 flowered, nearly all erect ; sepals acuminate, much 
longer than the (unripe) capsule, its valves acute ; seeds with a 
“straight blunt appendage or crest:” Bromf. Had the plant been 
able to perfect its seeds, we would have agreed with Mr. Bentham in 
uniting L. Forsteri to L. pilosa. 
4. L. campestris Willd. ( Field W.) leaves hairy, spikes 
dense somewhat umbellate or contracted into a rounded lobed 
head, sepals acuminate longer than the obtuse apiculate cap- 
sule, seeds with a short conical stalk-like appendage at the 
base. — a. filaments about 6 times shorter than the anther, 
seeds nearly globose. Juncus L. : E. B. t. 672. — j8. taller, 
filaments from half as long to as long as the anther, seeds 
twice as long as broad. L. congesta Lej.: E. B.S.t. 2718. 
L. multiflora Lej. 
Woods and dry pastures, frequent ; o. and jS. growing together. 
11- 4, 5. — Stem 4 — 8 inches, or even one foot or more high. 
Flowers collected into ovate or oblong nearly erect spikes, of a reddish- 
brown colour, sometimes very pale. In /3. the spikes are often nearly 
all sessile. 
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