300 ` Mr. J. E. BrengNo's Observations 
glaucous, rigid, tapering to a stiff point; sheaths at the base 
brown, polished, even. Panicle erect, decompound, as if pro- 
liferous, shorter than the stem; branches very unequal, the 
first much longer than the rest. Bracte membranous at the 
base, spinous, subulate. Flower-scales lanceolate, acuminate. 
Calyx-leaflets lanceolate, acute, zagged towards the point. 
Capsule linear-oblong, triangular, three-celled, light brown. 
Seeds ovate; coruncle elongated at each end. 
The J. maritimus is a slenderer, lower plant, with an oblong 
and smaller capsule than the last. The panicle is also much more 
branched, the first branch far overtopping the others, and the 
calyx-leaflets lanceolate and acute. The two species cannot be © 
mistaken if seen together when ripe. It is common on most 
parts of the coast; and, like the last, prevents the sea from 
making incursions on the land. The flower-scales in this species, 
and in most of the others, are very much disposed to become 
foliaceous. j theta est | 
-+. 8, JUNCUS GLAUCUS. 
Juncus aphyllus, paniculà laterali erecta angustá, capsulis el- 
lipticis acutiusculis calyce brevioribus. 
J. culmo nudo glauco apice inflexo tereti, panicula laterali erecta, 
capsulis oblongis acutis. Rost. Monograph. 9. 
J. culmo nudo glauco apice inflexo, panicula laterali effusa, ra- 
mis elongatis, floribus acuminatis, Willd. Sp. Pl. ii. 206. 
J. culmo nudo stricto glauco, panicula laterali erecta, capsulis 
ellipticis acutis. Eng. Bof. x. 665. Flor. Brit. 375. 
J. culmo striato glauco, basi stipulis fuscis, panicula. laterali 
sparsa. Sibth. Fl. Oz. 113. . : : ri 
J. effusus B. Huds. 149. 
J. inflexus.  Leers 88. t. xiii.. f. 3. (char. spec. dub.) — Relh. 141. 
With. 345. Abbot, T8. Huds. Fl. Angl. 1st ed. 130. 
J. acutus 
