JuJicus.'] ' JUNCEiE. 



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Hook, in Scoresb, Greeni. App. p, 410.— Juncus campestris. Solandr. in Phipps' Voy. 

 0. minor; foliis latioribus, bracteis partialibus vix fimbriatis. Hook. L c. 



Hab. a. an(l/3. Arctic Sea-shore. Dr Richardson; and Arctic Islands. Sir E. Parrj/, &iC.—(i. Most 

 elevated of the Rocky Mountains. J)rummo?id. —The first variety, as I have stated in the Appendix to Sir 

 Edward Parry^s second voyage, is perhaps too near L. campestris; and the second van almost seems to 

 unite the first with the following ; yet I think they are distinct. 



7. L. araiata (Hook. 77. Lond. N. S. t. 153); foHis canaliculatis pilosis (pills ssepe 

 obsoletis), panicula subumbellata, floribus glomeratis, glomerulis 3-5-floris, pedunculis 

 nutantibus, bracteis inembranaceis fimbriatis, capsula ovato-globosa sepalis lato-lanceo- 

 latis breviori. Hook. inE. Bot. SuppL L 26. Cham, et Schlecht. LinrKsa, 3. p. 375. Hook. 

 et Am. in Bot of Beech. p. 131.— /5. major; spithamsea et ultra. 



Hab. N. W. America. Kotzebue's Sound. Chamisso. Beechey. Summit of Mount Rainier. (var./3.) 

 Tohnie. Summits of the Rocky Mountains. Brummond.— The Mount Rainier specimens are much larger 

 than our European Z. arcuata, and than that from the Rocky Mountains, and the leaves are broader, and 

 the flowers deeper brown ; they seem to connect the species with L. spadicca. 



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pungentej florum fascicule lateral! sessili, perianthii laciniis ovato-lanceolatis acutis 

 capsula elliptica trigona mucronata brevioribus. Svensk. BoL t 479./ 5. — J. compressus. 

 ^. Hoenkei. Meyer in Herb. Hook, et in Reliq. Hoenk. Ease. 2. p, 141.— J. Hccnkei. Meyer 

 Syn. June. p. 10 — p. gracilis; floribus subterminalibus paucis 1-3. J. platycaulos. 

 {H, B. K.) /3, aphyllus. E. Meyer in Herb, nostr. 



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Hab. Arctic Sea-coast. Dr Richardson. Point Mulgrave, in Behring's Straits. Hcenke.—fi. At a great 

 elevation on the Rocky Mountains. Drummond.^My specimens have been named J. compressus (H. B. K.), 

 {i. Hoenkei of Meyer, by the learned Meyer himself; but they correspond so exactly with the true J. arcticus, 

 from Lapland, and Iceland, and Greenland, that I cannot entertain a doubt of this being the same. As it is a 

 very arctic or very alpine species, I have omitted one of the two stations given by Hcenke, his ** Nutka-Sund 

 vel Poriu Mulgrave.''— fi. has very few flowers to each slender culm, and those generally near the apex, 

 which thus seems to form a bractea. 



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2. J. Balticus ( Willd.) ; repens aphyllus, scapo tereti laevi opaco rigido apice pun- 

 gente, floribus paniculatis, panicula brevi laterali, perianthii laciniis subaequalibus ovato- 

 lanceolatis acutis longitudine capsulae ellipticae mucronatae. Hook, in E. Bot Suppl L 

 262L— J-arcticus. Hook. Fl, Lond. N. S. t 151, [nan Wiild.)— J. compressus. {H. B. K.) 

 Cham, in LinncBU^ 6. p. 369. et in Herb, nostr. [non Jacq.)~3. complanatus. Schult 

 /3. laxa; panicula bi-triunciali valde ramosa laxa. — J. glaucus. Rich. Jpp. 77. 11. 



Hab. Unalaschka. Chamisso. N. W. America. Menzies. Saskatchawan River, near the mountains. 

 Douglas. Slave Lake. Dr Richardson.— (i. Throughout Canada to the Saskatchawan. Labrador. Dr 

 Morrison. — A taller and more harsh and rigid plant than the preceding, with the fascicles of flowers on 

 branched peduncles, so as to constitute a panicle — This, which is also Chamisso's J. compressus^ H. B. K, 



(Herb, nostr.), is unquestionably the same plant as the J. Balticus of England and Sweden The /3. is a 



very remarkable variety, with a much larger and looser panicle, and remote flowers. It docs not seem to 



