314 Mr. J. E. Breneno’s Observations 
of Brown's Prod. Flor. Nov. Holl. ; and whose name, therefore, being 
first applied to another species, ought to take precedence of that 
in Eng. Bot. Plants brought from the Cambridge garden as au- 
thentic specimens are, I think, a variety of J. pygmaeus of the French 
botanists; but they are so unlike the figure in English Botany, that 
1 cannot persuade niyself but that there is some mistake. _ 
12. Juncus TRIFIDUS. 
Juncus culmo nudo, capsulà oblonga calycem c quante, bracteis 
foliaceis canaliculatis floribusque tribus terminalibus. 
J. culmo basi nudo, apice triphyllo subtrifloro. Rost. Mono- 
graph. 54. 
J. culmo nudo, foliis floribusque tribus terminalibus. Sp. PI. 465. 
Flor. Dan. 107. Huds. 149. Lightf. 183. t. 9. f. 1. With. 345. 
- Flor. Brit. 378. Eng. Bot. xxi. 1482. 
J. monanthos. Jacq. Obs. 33. t. 4. f. 1. | 
J. acumine reflexo, minor et trifidus. Bauh. Prod. t. 92. | 
Angl. Tarne-teavep Rusu. Trifid Rush. Three-cleft Rush. 
Habitat in paludibus alpinis Scoticis, rariüs. 
Peren. July. me | 
Root creeping, fibrous. Stems very numerous, from a few inches 
to a foot in height, filiform; at the base sheathed with nume- 
rous awned brown scales, which are terminated abruptly with 
a membranous and fringed border; awns in the upper scales 
more or less leafy. Flowers from one to three, terminal, ac- 
. «ompanied by three foliaceous channelled bractes, two of them 
near the flower, the third sometimes at a distance, membranous 
. at their base, fringed at their border. Calya-leaflets scarcely so 
long as the capsule. Capsule oblong, large, shining, acuminate ; 
cells few-seeded. 3 | | 
Lightfoot says that he found the Scotch specimens all with 
a single flower, corresponding with Jacquiu's J. monanthos. On 
the 
