Class VI. Order I. 

 JUNCUS CAMPESTRIS. L. Field rush. 



Stein leafy. Leaves flat, hairy ; spikes ter- 

 minal, sessile, or pecluuculated ; capsules obtuse. 

 Sm. 



Hardly half a foot high in dry ground, but in wet situations 

 much taller. Stem upright, round, leafy. Leaves short, grass 

 like, flat, acute, the edges fringed with fine, loose hairs. Spikes- 

 terminal, umbelled, most of them on peduncles, irregular ovate, 

 obtuse, erect or nodding. Calyx leaves lanceolate, acute. Cap- 

 sules inversely ovate, obtuse, shorter than the calyx. May. 

 Perennial. 



JUNOUS TENUIS. Willd. Slender rush. 



Stem roundish, undivided ; leaves linear, chan- 

 nelled ; corymb terminal ; leaves of the calyx acu- 

 minate, larger than the obtuse, three sided capsule. 



Willd. 



A small, hardy species, common about foot paths and road 

 sides. Stem roundish, leafy at base. Leaves slender, channel- 

 led on the upper side. Corymb or cyme terminal, unequal, 

 invested with a long, leafy involucre. Capsule obtuse, a little 

 shorter than the calyx. June.' Perennial. 



JUNOUS POLYCEPHALOS. Mich. Many headed rush. 



Stem few leaved, erect ; leaves somewhat knot- 

 ty ; heads round, many flowered, panicled ; calyx- 

 es linear ; stamens three. JWich. abr. 



Syn. JUNCUS ECHiNjfus. Muhl. 



Common in meadows and low ground. Stem erect, firm, 

 round, smooth. Leaves round, smooth, interrupted with nu- 

 merous transverse partitions or joints. Heads resembling 

 small burrs, sessile and pedunculated, in a proliferous panicle 



