392 OLX. JUNCACEZ. (J. D. Hooker.). 
Onnpn CLXII. JUNCACEZ. 
Erect, rarely annual herbs; stems tufted or with a creeping rootstock. 
Leaves flat, terete, or reduced to sheaths. Flowers in axillary or terminal 
cymes, 2 sexual, bracteate, green, or whitish and membranous, or brown 
and coriaceous. Perianth inferior, segments 6 in two series, persistent, 
imbricate. Stamens 6, rarely 3, hypogynous or on the bases of the seg- 
ments; anthers basifixed. Ovary l- or 3-celled, style filiform or short, or v, 
stigmas 3, filiform; ovules 3 basilar in the 1-celled ovary, or many 1n the 
inner angles of the 3-celled, anatropous. Capsule 1-3-celled, loculicidally 
3-valved. Seeds erect, testa membranous, often produced at each end ; 
albumen dense; embryo small, next the hilum.—Genera 14; species 
about 200. 
Ovary many-ovuled . . . e.’ oo a s.s. > l JUNCUS. 
Ovary 1-celled 3-ovuled . e. e. 2... . . 2, LUZ 
1. JUNCUS, Linn. 
Glabrous herbs. Perianth with the 3 outer segments keeled or the 
midrib thickened. Stamens 6, rarely 3. Ovary 3- rarely 1-celled, ovu 
many.—Species about 150, temperate and arctic, rarely tropical. 
Sect. I. Annual Stem copiously branched. Leaves not septate. 
Cymes scattered, few-fld. 
1. J. bufonius, Linn. Sp. Pl. 466; slender much dichotomously 
branched from the base upwards, cymes numerous, flowers pale, ET; 
solitary or clustered, sepals and petals unequal. Kunth Enum. 11. 997? 
Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 395; Royle Ill. 401; Wall. Cat. 8997; Boiss ^^ 
Orient. v. 361; Buchen. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb, xii. 174. | 
NORTHERN INDIA; from the plains to 13,000 ft. in the Himalaya, but local. 
Distris. N. temp. regions. few. 
Densely clustered, 1-12 in. high, erect or ascending, pale green. Ten ehes 
setaceous, channelled above, sheaths pale. Cymes scattered on the stew, d open 
short or long, often flexuous; bracts scarious; flowers 3—4 in. long, later inate 
6-androus, terminal closed 3-androus; sepals and petals lanceolate, long acum sule 
and with broad membranous margins. Stamens half as long as the sepals. CaP e. 
shorter than and closely embraced by the perianth, obovoid, obtuse, mucronate, 
Seeds very minute, finely reticulate, tips nearly rounded. 
Sect. IT. Perennial. Rhizome stout, tufted and creeping. Stemi beni 
terete, produced beyond the decompound cyme and then erect and P 
gent; bases closed with rigid leafless sheaths. Leaves 0, or terete li 
stem. Flowers usually distinctly pedicelled. 1 
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2. J. effusus, Linn. Sp. Pl. 326; stems soft, pith continuous, sepas 
lanceolate exceeding the obovoid retuse capsule, stamens usually 3, ^t y. 
not tailed at the ends. Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 920; Boiss. Fl. vim 
352; Buchen. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. vi. 199 ; xii. 228. J.communis 
Junc. 12; Kunth Enum. iii. 390. 
Sikkim HIMALAYA, alt, 6-10,000 ft. Enn Hiris, alt. 5-5500 ft. 
Europe, N. Asia, Africa, America, and Australia. 
Usually forming circular densely matted tufts of pale green finely st le, e 
1-3 ft. high, and 3-1 in. diam. ; spathes all leafless. Cymes most variab SCH 
lax und pendulous with slender branches and distant flowers, or globose we 
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