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pestris of With. Ed. in. E.) is much more hairy than the preceding, and at 
the base of the stem the hairiness looks as if some dressed flax adhered 
to the plant, whence I have named it liniger. The leaves are a quarter 
of an inch broad, but in the preceding not more than half that breadth. 
The jlowers are much more numerous and closely compacted into globu¬ 
lar heads, and appear a month later. (Mr. Caley noticed it in three suc¬ 
cessive years bearing the same characters : he observes that J. campestris 
grows along with it, and attains its height, but is easily distinguished 
from it by its slender habit, and being destitute of a globular head. Mr. 
Swayne says it flowers the latest of our leafy-stemmed rushes, and resem¬ 
bles J. campestris, but is very distinct. Mr. Teesdale likewise proved 
this plant to be unaltered by cultivation. E.) 
Flaxen Rush. (Many-headed Bog Wood-rush. L. congesta. De Cand. 
Forst. Sm. Juncus liniger. With. Purt. J. campestris [3. Linn. FI. 
Brit. L. campestris (3. Bich. Linn. Tr. Hook. Grev. which latter author 
thus distinguishes the two varieties of Linn. (3. culms taller (than L. cam¬ 
pestris); flowers collected into a dense roundish head; leaves slightly 
hairy. J. sudeticus. Willd. Turfy bogs. y. culms taller (do.) : spikes 
less obtuse, on sub-erect peduncles ; leaves excessively hairy. J. liniger. 
With. Woods and hedges. E.) Turfy bogs. Short wood, near 
Pucklechurch, flowering the latter end of June. Mr. Swayne. (On the 
side of the road from Coughton to Sambourne, Warwickshire. Purton. 
On boggy heaths, Northumberland and Durham, frequent. Mr. Winch. 
E.) P. June. 
JL. spica'ta. (Panicle dense, compound, oblong, lobed, drooping : cap¬ 
sule elliptical, with a small point: crest of the seeds obsolete: 
stem-leaves channelled. 
FI. Dan. 270— {E. Bot. 1176. E.)— FI. Lapp. 10. 4. 
I have seen J. campestris growing with it, but they are perfectly distinct. 
Sm. Well distinguished by its drooping, compound spike. Hook. Five 
or six inches high. Spike terminal, pointing almost horizontally, about 
half an inch long. 
Spiked Wood-rush. On bare spots on mountains; often on their sum¬ 
mits. (Z,. spicata. Bich. Hook. Sm. Juncus spicatus. Linn. With. 
Dicks. Sm. E.) On the summit of Ben Lomond. Sir J. E. Smith. On 
Ben Bourd near Invercauld; on all the mountains between Angus-shire 
and Dee side, and on those of Breadalbane and Glenlochai. Mr. Brown. 
(On Ben Lawers and Ben y Gloe. Mr. Winch. Fairfield, near Amble- 
side. Mr. Joseph Woods. E.) P. July—Aug. 
(L. arcua'ta. Panicle somewhat umbellate, partly compound, with 
drooping branches: heads globose, of few flowers: bracteas 
membranous, fringed : capsule elliptical: leaves channelled. Sm. 
Hook FI. Lond. 151— Wahlenb. Lapp. 87. t. 4. 
Root invested with scaly sheaths. Stem three or four inches high, erect, 
bearing one or two leaves. Radical leaves numerous, incurved, partially 
hairy. Stem-leaves with long reddish sheaths. Flowers about three 
together. Caps, shorter than the calyx, bluntish, with a small deciduous 
point, originating in the base of the style. Seeds with scarcely any crest. 
Panicle branches recurved. 
Curved Mountain Wood-rush. Juncus arcuatus. Wahlenb. L.arcuata. 
Hook. Sm. Gathered on the Grampian hills, Gairn-gorum, Ben-y-Bord, 
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