Juncus Sylvaticus. Great Hairy Wood-Rush, 
JUNCUS Lin. Gen. PI, HexaNdria Monogynia. 
Cal. 6-phyllus. Cor. o. Capf. i-Iocularis. 
kan Syn. Gen. 27. Herb graminiFolias fiore imperfect6 culmifera!. 
JUNCUS fylvaticus foliis planis pilofis, corymbo decOmpoflto, floribus fafciculatis feflilibus. 
xruajon ri. Angi. p. 15 u 
JUNCUS foliis planis hirfutis, floribus paniculatis, fafciculatis. Haller hijl. n. 1324. 
GRAMEN nemorofum hirfutum latifolium majus, Scheuch. Agrojl. p. 317. C. B. Pin. 7. 
GRAMEN ««tannu Rail Syn. p. 4,6. The greateft broad- 
GRAMEN luzulm maximum. J.B. 11.493. Lightfoot FI. Scot. p. 180. 
Authors have contributed not a little to miflead Undents, by deferring this fpecies of Tuncus as uncom- 
monly large and fcarce and it is probable that Mr. Ray would not have confi/ered it a S J a fpecies, had he 
not by accident met with fome very luxuriant fpec.mens of it; in certain Gtuations it doubtlefs may be found 
very large, and tall, but it more ufually occurs with a ftalk a little more than a foot high ; of fome plants 
growing ,m my garden, clofe 1 to each other, mamoift, but not very fliady f.tuation, the comparative Et 
of the Juncus campejlns, pilajiis, and fylvaticus, was as follows, campejlris g inches, pilofusn and /yJL- 
tUU \h 5 ; , the , a “ ount ° f m be,D ? a fcarce plant IS 11,11 raore “ronsous, as there is hardly a wood in the 
neighbourhood of London, nor as far as we have obferved in any part of the kingdom, in which they do not 
tnBifliops-Wood, Ilampftead, which is near the fp^t where 
By Linn/eus this plant is confidered as a variety only of the filofus : Mr. Hudson and BaronHALLER 
examining it with more attention than Linnasus, make a diftinH fpecies of it, and give fuch a defeription of 
it as cannot fail to make it known. 6 ^ 
To the charaHers given m their fynonyms above quoted, we may add that the leaves are not only much 
broader, and more concave but more fharply pointed than thofe of the filofus, that it flowers three weeks 
or a month ater, and that when the flowering is over, the flower-ftalks of the pilot us are more reflexed or 
pendulous than thofe of the fylvaticus. 
This fpecies flowers in May, or earlier if the feafon be a mild one. 
