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| 11. Juncus GRACILIS. í 
Juncus foliis linearibus planis, caule dichotomo racemoso foliis 
altiore, floribus solitariis. Compend. Flor. Brit. 56. 
Juncus gracilis. Eng. Bot. xxxi. 2174. 
Angl. StgNpxR Rusu. Slender spreading Rush, E. B. J. c. 
Habitat in paludibus alpinis Scoticis, rariüs. 
Peren. July. 
“ The Root consists of woolly fibres, and has the appearance of 
being perennial. Stem very slender, a foot or more in height, 
naked, except at the base and summit. Radical leaves but one 
or two, much shorter than the stem, narrow, flat, slightly thick- 
ened, or somewhat involute, at their edges, not channelled. 
The top of the Stem terminates in a few racemose forked branches, 
with two or three leaves at the base. Flowers solitary, mostly 
sessile. Calyx-leaves sharp-pointed. Valves of the ane blunt 
and emarginate. 
* Found by Mr. G. Dow i in 1795 or 1796, by the side of a rivu- 
let in marshy ground, among the mountains of Angus-shire, but 
very rarely. It appears to us to be a nondescript: but we. re- 
ceived from Mr. Dickson, some years before the above date, a 
specimen not so far advanced towards sins shied of what. seems 
to us the same species. 
“ The inflorescence and fructification of this Rush come nearest 
to bufonius, t. 802.; bui the fewness of the flowers, taller stem, 
and flatter leaves, as well as the broader and emarginate valves 
of the fruit, serve well to distinguish it; not to mention the pro- 
bably perennial root. Eng. Bot. I. c." 
This species is unknown to me, except from the description I 
have here quoted. I may however add, that it is not the gracilis 
of Roth Germ. i. 155. ii. 402., which is J. capitatus, Willd. ; nor 
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