HEXANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Luciola. 447 
(J. polyceph'alus. Leaves apparently jointed, awl-shaped, cylin¬ 
drical : panicle erect, twice or thrice-forked, with nearly simple 
branches: heads many-flowered : calyx-leaves lanceolate, acute, 
rather shorter than the elliptic-ovate bluntish capsule. 
This has a very peculiar habit, and differs from all the other species in this 
division, by the very simple ramifications of the panicle, and the few 
but large heads containing from five to eight spreading flowers, each 
upon a short stalk. 
Many-headed Jointed Rush. Highland mountains. Mr. G. Don. 
P. Hook. Scot. E.) 
(LUCFOLA.* Cal. six-leaved : Caps . one-celled, three-valved: 
Seeds three, erect.f 
(L. PiLcfsA. Panicle cymose, widely spreading and reflexed: flowers 
solitary: capsule obtuse: crest of the seeds hooked. 
E. Bot. 736— Curt. 345-— Leers 13. 10— H. Ox. viii. 9. 1— Ger. Em. 19. 2—* 
Park. 1184. 1 —Ger. 17. 1— C. B. Th. 101. 
Stem nine to twelve inches high, leafy. Seed with a pale curved appendage 
at the top, ( coruncula ), as long as the seed itself. Vid. Linn. Tr. v. xii. 
p. 330. t. 9. f. 1. The peculiar shape of the coruncula, observes Mr. Bi- 
cheno, will at once enable the Botanist to distinguish this plant from all 
its congeners, but when that cannot be seen, the divaricate and dark 
panicle will generally suffice to separate it from L. Forsteri; and the 
solitary jlowers prevent it being confounded with other British species. 
Broad-leaved Hairy Wood-rush. (Welsh: Brwynen Jlewog. E.) 
L. pilosa. Willd. Bich. Hook. Grev. Juncus pilosus. Linn. Huds. 
With. Curt. Sm. Leers. In groves, and on broken banks, common. 
P. March—April. E.) 
(L. Forste'ri. Panicle cymose, erect: flowers solitary: capsule 
pointed: crest of the seeds straight and obtuse. 
Hook. FI. Lond. 68— E. Bot. 1293. 
Root fibrous, black, scarcely stoloniferous. Straws from a span to a foot 
high, upright, undivided, slender, cylindrical, smooth, leafy. Leaves 
strap-spear-shaped, sharp-pointed, twice or thrice as narrow as those of 
J.pilosus; hairy at the edge towards the base j the upper ones larger, 
the root-leaves very small. Panicle terminal, tufted, branched, all the 
branches upright, never wide apart or bent back. Floiuers like those of 
J. pilosus, but the segments of the calyx far more pointed. Capsules egg- 
shaped, sharp-pointed, not blunt at the end. FI. Brit. Linn. Tr. v. xii. p. 
331. t. 9. f. 2. The leaflets of the perianth are longer and narrower than 
in L. pilosa ; the capsules less obtuse, and mostly terminated by the per¬ 
sistent base of the style; to which may be added its slenderer habit and 
paler colour, especially about the flowers. Hook. 
* (So named from a supposed resemblance, when its heads are glistening with dew, to the 
fly called Lucciole,{lucco , to shine), of warmer climates, that shines as the glow worm; or, 
according to Gerard, because the heads of the flowers shine in the night, 44 wherefore in 
Italy they call it Luciola , quia noctu lucet.” E.) 
t (The marginal hairs of this genus are singularly constructed ; being composed of a 
number of smaller fibres, which are jointed and twisted ; so that upon the application of 
moisture, in a dry day, as in the awns of Avena , they untwist themselves. Bicheno. E.) 
