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Thysanotus junceus. Rushlike 

 Thysanotus. 



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Class and Order. 

 Hexandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. 



Corolla 6-petala, patens, persistens; petalis interioribus 

 latioribus, limbo utriiique colorato, marginibus fimbriatis 

 ciliis articulatis. Stamina 6, (raro 3,) imai corollae inserta, 

 vel hypogna, declinata. Filamenta glabra, brevia. Antherm 

 lineares, emarginaturaa baseos insert® : 3 interiores sacpius 

 elongatae, reclinatae. Germen loculis dispermis. Stylus fili- 

 formis, declinatus. Stigma parvum. Caps 3-loularis, 3- 

 valvis, valvis medio septiferis. Semina bina, altero erecto, 

 altero pendulo, strophiolata. Brown mutatis terminis. 

 Chlamysporum. Salisbury. 



Specific Character and Synonym. 



Thysanotus junceus; radicibus fibrosis, caulibus ramosis 

 diffusis teretibus striatis: ramulis subangulatis, foliis 

 radicalibus abbreviatis caulinisque strietis patenti- 

 erectis, umbellis paucifloris, antheris inaequalibus. 

 Br. Prodr. 283. 



Chlamysporum juncifolium; foliis linearibus integerrimis: 

 spicis laxe paniculatis, ipsis confertissimis : antheris 

 recurvis, alternis longissiinis. Salisb. Parad. Lond. 

 t. 103. 



Our plant did not appear, at the time we reeeived it, to 

 have either radical or cauline leaves to be distinguished 

 from the rush like, rounded, streaked stems, branched, 

 toward the top, into a few, divaricate, slender, somewhat 

 angular branches, bearing few-flowered umbels ; one flower 



only 



