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JUNCACEAE 



36. Juncus badius Suskdorf. 



Chestnut Rush. 



Fig-. 



890. 



Jiinciis badius Suksdorf, Deutsche B'ot. Monatss. 

 92. 1901. 



19: 



Stems tufted from slender creeping root- 

 stocks, 15-50 cm. high, very slender, slightly- 

 compressed. Leaves with distinctly auricled 

 sheaths, the blades slightly compressed, com- 

 pletely septate, 5-15 cm. long, or sometimes 

 longer, 1-1.5 mm. wide ; heads solitary to sev- 

 eral, mostly 7-12-flowered ; lowest bract of 

 inflorescence brownish or purplish. 8-10 mm. 

 long or sometimes longer ; perianth 3-3.5 mm. 

 long, dark brown, the segments about equal, 

 lanceolate, acuminate ; anthers linear, longer 

 than the filaments ; capsule slightly exceeding 

 the perianth, oblong-obovoid. rounded at the 

 apex, dark brown ; seeds apiculate at each 

 end, areolate, the reticulations in about 15 rows. 



Moist soils. Arid Transition Zone: eastern Wash- 

 ington and Idaho. Type locality : Falcon Valley, 

 Klickitat County, Washington. 



37. Juncus nevadensis S. AV'ats. Sierra Rush. Fig". 891 



Juncus phaeocephalus gracilis Engelm. Trans. St. Louis 



Acad. 2: 473. 1868. 

 Juncus nevadensis S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14: 303. 



1879. 

 Juncus suksdorf a Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 26: 541. 1899. 



Stems somewhat tufted from slender creeping 

 rootstocks, 15-60 cm. high, very slender, some- 

 what compressed. Leaves with distinctly auricled 

 sheaths, the blades 5-15 cm. long or sometimes 

 longer, 1-1.5 mm. wide, slightly compressed, com- 

 pletely but often obscurely septate ; heads often 

 1-2 and much congested, or 4-10 and few-flow- 

 ered ; perianth 3.5 min. long, dark brown, the 

 segments about equal, lanceolate, acuininate ; 

 anthers linear, longer than the filaments ; stigmas 

 long-exserted ; capsules scarcely equalling the 

 perianth, oblong, abruptly acute and mucronate at 

 apex, dark brown ; seed minute, apiculate at each 

 end, areolate, the reticulations in about 15 rows. 



Mountain meadows, Canadian Zone; Washington and 

 western Idaho to southern California. Type locality: 

 Tuolumne Meadcws, Sierra Nevada, California. <-j,._ ., 



38. Juncus columb 



Cokimbia Rush 



lanus 



Fig. 



Covi 

 892. 



He. 



Juncus coluinhianus Coville, Prac. Biol. Soc. Wasli. 14: 87. 1901. 



Stems tufted from creeping rootstocks, 20-60 cm. high, 

 slender, slightly compressed. Leaves with auricled sheaths, 

 the blades 5-15 cm. long or longer, slightly compressed, 1-1.5 

 mm. wide, completely septate ; heads several to numerous, 4-12- 

 flowered ; perianth pale brown, 3.5 mm. long, the segments 

 narrowly lanceolate, acuminate ; anthers longer than the fila- 

 ments ; capsule oblong, acute at the apex and prominently 

 mucronate, shorter than the perianth ; seeds with the reticula- 

 tions in about 15 rows, areolate lineolate. 



In wet meadows. Arid Transition Zone: eastern Washington to Mon- 

 tana south to Oregon. Type locality: in wet meadows near Pullman, 

 Washington. 



