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Juncus 
35. J. pallidus R. Brown, Prodr. fl. nov. Hollandiae, 1810, p. 258. 
— Densissime caespitosus, robustus, elatus. Caules teretes, molles, usque 
2 m alti, medullà asterisciformi continuà, rarius loculose-interruptä repleti. 
Inflorescentia pseudolateralis, anthelata, multiflora, contracta vel plus minus 
effusa. Flores pallidi. Stamina plerumque 6. Fructus trigono-ovatus, muti- 
cus, vel brevissime mucronatus, triseptatus. Semina apice brevissime obli 
que albo-caudata. 
Litt. J. vaginatus aut. mult. non R. Brown. — E. Meyer, Syn. Junco- 
rum, 1822, p. 16. J, pe Lanaree, Monographie Joncées, 1825, p. 119 (aliam 
plantam describit: triandram, glaucam, 6—10 pollicarem). C. S. Kuyta, 
En. plant., 1841, III, p. 321 (an planta Browniana? sub speciebus triandris 
enumer.!). J. vaginatus E. Meyer in: Leumann, Plantae Preissianae, 1846, 
II, p. 46. J. D. Hooker, flora Nov. Zealandiae, 1853, I, p. 263 (dubius, sub 
nom. J. vaginali). J. correctus E. G. Sreuper, Syn. plant. glum., 1855, II, 
p. 296. »J. Drummondii Stevner in Dua E. G. Sreuper, ibid. J. D. Hooker, 
fl. Tasmaniae, 1860, II, p. 66 (sub nom. J. vaginatı). J. D. Hooker, hand- 
book New Zealand Flora, 1864, I, p. 289 (sub nom. J. vaginali). G. BENTHAM, 
fl. australiensis, 1878, VII, p. 130 (planta Browniana, sed plerumque triandra 
dicitur). J. macrostigma W. CorENso, A Description of some newly disco- 
vered and rare indigenous Plants, in: Transaet. and Proe. New Zealand 
Instit., 1885, XVII, p. 253 (teste specim. authentico in hb. Kew.). 
Descr. Perennis, densissime caespitosus (an viridis vel glaucus?). Radices 
fuscae, teretes, diam. 0,5—1! mm. Rhizoma horizontale, crassum, internodiis brevis- 
simis, caules confertos emittens. Caules erecti, stricti, molles, teretes, laeves, in statu 
sicco subvalleculati, basi tantum foliati, scapiformes, 420—4180 (rarius 200) em alti, 
diam. 3—5, rarius 10 mm, medullà eximie asterisciformi, plerumque continuä (rarius 
irregulariter loculoso-interruptä) repleti. Folia basilaria cataphyllina, magna, straminea, 
basi ferruginea, supremum eorum usque 25 cm longum, vaginam latam formans, apice 
brevissime aristato- mucronatum; folium unicum frondosum turionis sterilis cauli- 
forme, caule brevius. Inflorescentia pseudolateralis, anthelata, supra -decom- 
posita, multiflora, vel contracta, vel plus minus effusa (ramis primanis plus minus elon- 
gatis); flores in ramis ultimis plus minus secundi. Bractea infima erecta, cauliformis, 
elongationem caulis simulans, subulata, 5—30 (rarius usque 60) cm longa, sequentes 
hypsophyllinae ; prophylla floris late-ovata, acuta, fere toto scariosa, flore pluries bre- 
viora. Flores ca. 3 mm longi, pallidi. Tepala glumacea, firmiora, straminea, externa 
paullo longiora, lanceolata, acutata, interna ovato-lanceolata, acuta, latius membranaceo- 
marginata, Stamina 6, tepalis externis plus quam !/; breviora ; filamenta linearia, alba; 
antherae lineares, filamentis vix longiores. Pistillum perigonio brevius; ovarium tri- 
gonum ; stilus brevissimus; stigmata longa, erecta. Fructus trigono-ovatus, muticus, 
vel brevissime mucronatus, perigonium aequans vel plus minus superans, stramineus, 
nitidus, triseptatus; pericarpium firmum. Semina 0,5—0,6 mm longa, ferruginea, basi 
et apice fusco-maculata, oblique oblonga, vel anguste oblonga, apice brevissime albo- 
caudata. 
Distr. geogr. Neuholland (nach Bevrmaw in allen Colonien); Tas- 
mania; Neu-Seeland. 
Collect. Preiss, Swan-River, 1864 (!). Guns, 569,570 (?, J. D. Hooker). 
