on the Genus Juncus of Linnaeus. | 315 
the contrary, Wahlenburg informs us that he never met with the 
one-flowered variety in Lapland. It is also worthy of remark, 
that Linnzeus’s plant does not produce radical leaves ; whereas 
ours possesses them more or less, showing at the same time by 
the awn, which terminates the scales, many fruitless attempts at 
perfecting them, though they are more completely produced at 
every new effort. It is the connecting link between the Junci and 
the Luzule. =“ Mira omnino mihi videtur species,” says Wahlen- 
= burg, Flor. Lap. 81, ** ad radicem prorsus aphylla. . Radix re- 
pens cülmos multos fasciculatos exserens squamis tantum brevi- 
bus interstinctos. : Vaginze culmi basin vestientés brevi mucrone 
ornate, de cætero in fimbrias partite. - Folium in suprema parte 
culmi plerumque adest, bracteis simillimum; ligula fimbriata 
alba. Bractez canaliculatæ,; marginibus serrulatis, Semina in 
singula capsula pauca: de cætero quoque structura capsule inter 
Juncum et Luzulam ambigit. Capsula oblonga., J. monanthos, 
Jacq. differre mibi videtur: foliis. radicalibus ; et capsula ovali, 
duplo. maigre, caro excedente." 2 
18. JUNCUS ULIGINOSUS. 
Juncus, foliis setaceis canaliculatis, floribus ternis sessilibus, cap- 
sulà obtusá calycem excedente, culmo bu boso radicante. 
J. foliis setaceis subnodoso-articulatis, capitulis trifloris su yproli- 
pet culmo bulboso radicanite. © on ee 380. Eng. — xii. 
J. XU 5 fol i080, fóribi T ascicu in : 
. setaceis articulato-nodosis. Sibth. 115. 
Gramen junceum minimum, capsulis bo rit he es Sy 
A34. | 
Gramen junceum capsulis triangulis minimum. Moris. a viii. 
t. 9. f. 3. sore. 
B. capitulis foliaceis et gemmiparis. Var. Rai Syn. 434. 1L 
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