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II. A Determination of Three British Specie I. of Juncus, with 
Jointed Leaves. By the Rev. Hugh nn 5 EA ie E ; 
Read November 1, 1808... 
Ix the course of a morning's walk having been fortunate in an 
opportunity of examining the knotty-leaved division of the ge- 
nus Juncus, by finding all the species on nearly the same spot, 
I am induced to request leave to lay before a Linnean Berto 
the result of my observations. | Ä 
lere then I must premise, that the want of an opportamty of 
examining them in a proper state, and comparing them together, 
I take to have been the cause that what seem to me to be di- 
stinct species have been treated as varieties only, by men of 
eminence in the science of botany. 
In consequence of the attention which I bestowed on them, I 
am much inclined to suppose that I can determine into three 
very distinct species, what have been deemed ¢wo varieties only 
of the species J. articulatus, Linn. Sp. PL, Sm. Fl. Brit., and 
Leers Fl. Herborn.; but are considered as two species, indeed, 
. by Dr. Sibthorp, viz. compressus and nemorosus ; and two species, 
likewise, by Mr. Relhan, viz. compressus and articulatus. 
My three species I shall at present distinguish NT, e 
COND, and THIRD. | 
In the rrrst the branches of the panicle are strong, erect, 
fewer, and less diffuse than in the other two; the capsule is 
large, of a deep reddish brown colour, and finely glossed; of 
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