of white hairs varies in both. The panicle of the present
is certainly very different, consisting usually of 7 or 8
roundish or ovate, dense obtuse clusters or spikes, the
first almost sessile, the rest on long, partly spreading stalks.
Calyx rather paler, more taper-pointed, scarcely extending
beyond the capsule, which is of a rather narrow obovate
form.”—Sm. in Engl. El.
We have ourselves expressed an opinion in the Flora
Scotica, and in the British Flora, that this ought only to be
considered as a var. of L . campestris. Mr. Purton was the
first to distinguish it as a species in this country ; and upon
the continent, Lejeune, and, following him, Decandolle in
the Supplement to the Flore Françoise, did the same : but
the latter author, in the Botanicon Gallicum, has again
referred it to L . campestris.
In moory and turfy soil L . congesta is not uncommon.
It is perennial, and flowers in the month of June, a month
later, according to Mr. Purton, than L . campestris does in
similar situations.—W. J . H.