IRbodora 
JOURNAL OF 
THE NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB 
Vol. 24. September, 1922. No. 285. 
NOTES ON THE FLORA OF WESTERN NOVA SCOTIA 
1921. 
M. L. FERNALD. 
(Continued from page 164.) 
"*JuNcus EFFUSUS L., var. CONGLOMERATUS (L.) Engelm. See 
Fernald & Wiegand, Ruopora, xii. 85 (1910). Locally abundant in 
peaty soil, Shelburne. The old record from Nova Scotia was based 
on young and unidentifiable material. 
J. EFFUSUS, var. Pytarr (Laharpe) Fernald E Wiegand. Hants 
Co.: swales near Uniacke Lake. 
J. SUBCAUDATUS (Engelm.) Coville & Blake, var. PLANISEPALUS 
Fernald, Ruopoma, xxiii. 241 (1922). Many new stations east to 
Hants and Halifax Cos. 
J. MILITARIS Bigel. The commonest form of J. militaris has, as 
described by Bigelow, the “Culm . . . with a long sheath or 
two at base, and commonly another above the leaf. Leaf cylindrical, 
erect, . . . inserted below the middle of the culm, and exceeding 
it in height," and tradition, as recorded in the herbarium of the late 
T. O. Fuller, tells us that “Bigelow named this militaris because it 
reminded him of a soldier carrying his bayonet above his head." 
So general is this combination of characters, the very tall and erect 
leaf and above it the firm bladeless sheath, that they have been 
treated as diagnostic. Thus, in the Pflanzenreich, Buchenau dis- 
tinguishes J. militaris from related species by “Folium frondosum 
unicum, ca. in medium caulem insertum, strictum, crassum, unitubu- 
losum, pungens, usque 100 cm. longum,"? while the key-character 
used in the 7th edition of Gray's Manual is: * Upper cauline leaves 
1 Bigelow, Fl. Bost. ed. 2: 139 (1824). 
? Buchenau in Engler, Pflanzenr. iv. pt. 36: 173 (1906). 
