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XCVII. JUNCACEiE. 
\Narthecium. 
5. L. arcudta Hook. ( curved Mountain W.) ; leaves channel- 
led hairy, panicle subumbellate of few 3 — 5-flowered heads 
with long drooping peduncles, bracteas membranous fringed, 
capsule ovato-globose apiculate shorter than the broadly 
lanceolate nmcronate-aristate sepals, filaments as long as the 
anthers. E. B. S. t. 2688. 
On the barren stony summits of the great Cairngorm range of 
mountains; Fonniven, and Ben More in Assynt, Sutherland; Loch- 
na-gar, Aberdeenshire. 11. 7. — The smallest of our Luzulae and 
one of the rarest and most distinct. It comes nearer Mr. Brown’s 
L. hyperborea than any other, but that wants the curved peduncles. 
Seeds without an appendage at the top, and with scarcely any at the 
base. 
6. L. spicdta DC. ( spiked Mountain TF.) ; leaves slightly 
channelled, spike solitary drooping compound, spikelets shorter 
than their subdiaphanous mucronate bracteas, sepals narrow 
mucronate-aristate about as long as the elliptical apiculate 
capsule, filaments nearly as long as the anthers. JuncusZ. : 
E. B. t. 1176. 
High mountains in the north of England, and more abundantly in 
Scotland. 11. 7. — Stem 7 — 8 inches high, slender. Leaves small, 
narrow, hairy only at the margins of the sheaths. Spike dark- 
coloured, interrupted near the base. Capsule shining, very dark 
brown. Well distinguished by its drooping compound spike and 
narrow leaves. 
3. Narthecium Huds. Bog-Asphodel. 
Perianth coloured, of 6 linear-lanceolate, spreading, at length 
connivent sepals. Starn. woolly. Germen pyramidal. Stigma 
entire. Caps. 3-celled at the base, 3-valved. Seeds numerous, 
with an appendage at each extremity. — Named from vapQpl, a 
rod ; probably from the elongate straight raceme of flowers. 
It is remarkable that this word is an anagram of - Anthericum, a 
genus with which Linnseus had united it. 
1. N. ossi/ragum Huds. ( Lancashire B.) ; leaves linear uni- 
form, pedicels with one bractea at the base and another above 
the middle, stamens much shorter than the perianth. E. B. t. 
535. 
Wet places, in moors and mountains, frequent. 11 . 6 — 8 Stem 
f> — 8 inches high, decumbent at the base. Rhizome creeping. Leaves 
all radical, uniform, equitant, striate, about ^ as long as the scape, 
which has many scales or bracteas. Capsule loculicidal ; the dissepi- 
ments united at the base, and there bearing the axile placentas , sepa- 
rating upwards. Coat of seed chaffy, elongated into a filiform- 
subulate appendage to each extremity ; that at the lower end resem- 
bling a very long seed-stalk. 
