Juncus. | CLXII. JuNcacEx. (J. D. Hooker.) 393 
with densely packed flowers. Sepals ~5-} in. Sfamens 3, rarely 6, shorter than 
the sepals. Capsule obtuse or mucronate. Seeds very obtuse at each end, minute. 
—A graceful form with effuse nodding or decurved very lax-flowered cymes 3-5 in. 
long, long-pedicelled triandrous flowers and more or less interrupted pith, is common 
in the Sikkim woods at 5-8000 ft. elevation. 
$. J. glaucus, Ehrh. Beitr. vi. 83; stems rigid glaucous deeply 
striate, pith interrupted, sepals lanceolate about equalling the ovoid mucro- 
nate capsule, stamens 6, seeds obtuse at either end. Kunth Enum. iii. 316; 
Thwaites Enum. 340; Wall. Cat. Boiss. Fl. Orient. v. 353; Buchen. in 
Engl. Bot. Jahrb. vi. 199; xii. 243; Reichb. Iv. Fl. Germ.t. 412. J. effusus, 
Steud, Pl. Hohenack. . 
WzrsrERN HIMALAYA, alt. 6-9000 ft., from Kashmir to Nepal; the NILGHIRI 
Hitts and CEfLON.—DISTRIB. Europe, N. Asia, N. Africa. . 
Habit of T. effusus, but usually stiffer and darker green with deeper striated 
stems. I have great difficulty in referring some of the Himalayan dried specimens 
whether to glaucus or to effusus. 
4. J. maritimus, Lamk. Encycl. iii. 964; stem terete, basal sheaths 
short pale, leaves few terete pungent, cyme decompound, branches erect, 
sepals lanceolate acute, petals shorter oblong obtuse rather shorter than 
* ovoid or conic 3-celled capsule, seeds shortly tailed at each end. 
Kunth Enum. iii. 322; Buchen. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xii. 256; Reichb. Lc. 
Fl. Germ. ix, t, 402 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient. v. 354. 
Sandy shores of SINDH, Stocks, &c.—DisTRIB. Affghanistan and westward to 
the Atlantic, N. and S. America, Australia. 
Stems 2-4 ft., striate, pith solid ; basal sheaths narrow, obtuse, pungent or pro- 
duced into a solid terete pungent leaf. Cyme 1-2 in. long; floral bracts ovate, 
mucronate, margins broadly membranous ; sepals }—} in. long, pale green, margins 
membranous; stamens 6, filaments dilated and connate at the base, anthers linear. 
Capsule sometimes half as long again as the sepals, obtuse, mucronate, shining. 
eeds oblong or obovoid. 
Sect. ITI. Perennial. Stems simple, slender, leafy. Leaves filiform, 
hot septate. Cymes terminal. Stamens 6, included. Capsule shorter or 
nger than the perianth. 
l d J. tenuis, Willd. Sp. Pl. ii. 214; stem very slender tufted curved 
e caved, leaves very slender flat or involute, cyme terminal rather 
Gel E: lowers small distant or sparingly clustered, t 
‘mate much longer than the 6 stamens, anthers shorter than their 
„aments; capsule hardly exserted subglobosely trigonous. Kunth Enum. 
308° ; Buchen. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xii. 193; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. ix. t. 
re Grigith—Dister As., Am., N. Zealand. 
i ao 9-18 in. and leaves wiry. uates rarely exceeding the stem, deeply striate ; 
ne po embranous, 2-auricled. ` Cyme narrow or broad, compound, rarely dense: ” 
ow Tact Or bracts filiform, usually exceeding the cyme; floral mem ranous ; 
ers green ; Sepals spreading, à in. long; anthers shorter than their filaments ; 
sibi, 2 short. Capsule mucronate. Seeds obovoid or oblong, apiculate,— 
my introduced into Assam, as the species is spreading out of Europe. 
Gei A compressus, Jacg. En. Sirtp. Vind. 60, 935; stems slender 
w aved, leaves slender channelled, cyme terminal, branches spreading, 
mg subsolitary, sepals linear-oblong obtuse about equalling the broadly 
