on the Genus Juncus of Linnaeus, ` ‘808 
J. culmo nudo filiformi nutante, paniculá laterali. ‘Sp. Pl. 465. 
Leers 89. t. xiii. f. À. Huds, 149. ` Smith Spicileg. t. 8. 
J. parvus, calamo supra paniculam compactam longius producto. 
Raii Syn. 432. 
Angl. Least Rusu. Thread-form Rush. 
In irriguis alpinis, inque Anglia preecipué ad ripas lacuum bore- 
alium. 
Peren. July, August. 
Root creeping, horizontal, fibrous. Stem soft, generally a few, 
rarely ten inches high, very slender, tapering towards the sum- 
mit, frequently drooping, sheathed at the base with scales, 
which are light-brown, obtuse, remarkably awned. Panicle 
from three- to eight-flowered, nearly simple, remarkable for 
bursting from about the middle of the stem. Flowers sessile, 
supported by a small bracte. Fruit peduncled. —Calya-leaflets 
lanceolate, acute, very nearly equal; keel three-nerved. Cap- 
sule globose, about the length of the calyx. 
This plant has never been found in England, excepting on the 
margin of the lakes in the North, being a similar situation to 
that in which it is found on the Continent. Pursh states it to 
be frequent in boggy mountain-meadows in North America. Its 
diminutive size, and long slender summit above the panicle, suffi- 
ciently mark its character; though in habit it approaches very 
nearly to the two last described. Indeed, I anticipated a closer re- 
semblance when I found three stamens to be common to both the 
other soft Rushes conglomeratus and effusus; and 1 examined nume- 
rous fresh specimens of filiformis, with the view to discover the same 
numerical structure, but could never observe it. The small awnat 
the point of the radical sheaths appears to be an attempt towards 
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