318 Mr. J. E. BiombwUé Observations 
three together, terminal, clustered... .Bractes setaceous ; one or 
. more frequently foliaceous, longer than the flowers, and forcing 
them on one side. Calyz-leaflets lanceolate, chesnut-coloured. 
- Capsule oblong, rather — nb ne not quite so long as 
the calyx. : 
The synonyms I have — may I think e So on. 
The figure in Flor. Dan. 1099. represents the plant stronger than 
it usually is ; and in which case it occasionally produces branches 
of lateral flowers, but in its more common state they are only ter- 
minal. Bauhin, in his Hist. ii. 523., has probably described and . 
figured this species under his Juncus foliatus minimus. ‘The syno- 
nym brought from Symon’s Synopsis is determined by authentic 
specimens in the herbarium of my friend Mr. Edward Forster, 
F.L.S., which formerly belonged to Hudson, and from which. the 
character and description in that little work were drawn up. - 
Mr. George Don, who has the merit of first pointing out the 
species as of British growth, makes the following remarks: = “ I 
observed this plant, in October 1804, by the side of a rial 
near the summit of Ben Lawers, in a situation where the snow 
remains the greater part of the year, and not far from the spot 
where 1 first discovered the Juncus castaneus in May 1794, at which 
time the first-mentioned. place was covered with snow. I have 
cultivated the plant, and carefully compared my specimens in 
their different appearances with the figare in Flora Danica, which 
I consider as a just resemblance of this variable plant. The 
leaves which accompany the flowers, where they become terminal, 
give the plant the appearance of being. viviparous. ‘The plants, 
which I have cultivated, flowered in July; but in their native 
place they do not probably show their flowers earlier than — 
or September.” Dons Herb. Brit. fasc. v. 85. de 
This plant, to say the least of it, appears very different. Boni the 
rest. Its near approach to uliginosus, and the strong disposition 
e there 
