$08 Mr. J. E. Bicueno’s Observations 
J. bulbosus, foliis linearibus canaliculatis, culmo basi folioso, pa- 
niculá cymosa, capsulis obtusis. Flor. Brit.381. Eng. Bot. xiii. 
J. bulbosus, folis linearibus canaliculatis, capsulis obtusis. Sp. 
‘Pl. 466. Huds.150. Relh. 143. Sibth. 115. Abbot, 79. -Leers 
Fl. Herb. 89. t. xiii. f: 7. 
J..parvus cum pericarpiis rotundis. Raii Syn. 433. 
Gramen juncoides junci sparsa panicula. Park. 1190. 7.? | 
Gramen junceum aquaticum. Ger. 11. 2. Ger. Ein. 12.2. Park. 
3260; 3. 
Angl. Rounp-rruitep Rusu. Rushie Water Grass. 
Habitat in pascuis humidis. 
Peren. July, August. : 
Root creeping, horizontal, fibrous, not bulbous. Stem erect, from 
six to twelve inches high, simple, cylindrical at the base, com- 
pressed upwards, smooth, leafy, particularly at the base. Leaves 
linear, channelled, dilated and involute at the base, striated. 
Panicle inclining to a corymb, compound, many-flowered, the 
first branch longer than the others. Bractes foliaceous, chan- 
nelled; the lowermost longer than the panicle. Calya-leaflets 
obtuse, brown, scariose at the edge, shorter than the capsule, 
Capsule rotund, very obtuse, mucronate. 
I have ventured to separate Linneus’s Juncus bulbosus into two 
species, and to abolish the trivial name altogether, in consequence . 
of the confusion of synonyms that it has occasioned, and its total 
want of appropriateness. The plant bearing this name in the first 
edition of the Species Plantarum, is the uliginosus of Smith and of 
the present paper (which has a bulbous root), as appears from. 
the remarks of Ehrhart; and the transfer of it in the succeeding 
editions to the present plant, seems to have originated in an over- 
sight of the illustrious Swede. The name given by Jacquin is 
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