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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Table III. List of Grass-like Rushes. (Juncacea.) 



Common Name. 



Systematic Name. 



Common Wood Rush, 



Broad-leaved Hairy Wood 

 Rush, 



. Small-flowered Wood Rush, 



Soft Rush, . 



Slender Rush, 



Baltic Rush, . 



Smaller Round-headed Rush, 



Many-headed Rush, 



Sharp-fruited Rush, 



Brownish-fruited Rush, 



Conrad's Rush, 



Toad Rush, . 



Slender Rush, 



Greene's Rush, 



Black Grass, . 



Grass-leaved Rush, 



Long-fruited Rush, 



Three-leaved Rush, 



Luzula campestris, 



Luzula pilo.'sa, 

 Luzula parviflora, 

 Juncus effusus, . 

 Juncus filiformis, 

 Juncus balticus, . 

 Juncus nodosus, . 

 Juncus polycephalus, 

 Juncus acuminatus, 

 Juncus articulatus, 

 Juncus Conradi, . 

 Juncus bufonius, 

 Juncus tenuis, 

 Juncus Greenei, . 

 Juncus bulbosus, 

 Juncus marginatus, 

 Junous Stygius, . 

 Juncus trifidus, . 



Time of 

 Flowering. 



April, May, 



May,, . 



July, . 



June, . 



July, . 



July, . 



July, . 



July, . 

 August, 



July, Aug. 

 June, Aug. 

 June, Aug. 

 July, . 

 August, 

 July, . 



July, . 



Place of growth. 



Fields and dry woods. 



* 

 Open wood3,river banks 



Mountains,West. Mass. 



Swampy grounds : com- 

 mon. 

 Wet banks and shores. 



Sandy shores. 



Borders of rivers and 



pond.'). 

 Wet places. 



Boggy swamps. 



Wet places. 



Borders of ponds in 



sandy soil. 

 Low grounds, roadsides 



Low grounds, fields. 



Sandy borders of salt 



marshes. 

 Borders of salt marshes 



Moist, sandy swamps. 



Peat swamps. 



Mountain summits. 



The most prominent and valuable of these plants is the 



Black Grass, Qjuncus bulbosus, var. g'erardi,') an inhabitant 

 of salt marshes. This plant has a simple, slender stem, some- 

 what flattened, from one to two feet high. It is considered the 

 best product of the salt marshes and grows most luxuriantly 

 along their borders wdiich are only occasionally overflowed by 

 the tides, often working its way to the uplands where the seed 

 is scattered, in large quantities, in curing. It should be cut 

 early, and when well cured is thought to be nearly equal in 

 value to good English liay. Though not of Itself equal in 

 value, weight for weight, to " goose grass," (^poa maritima, p. 

 49, Fig. 30,) yet the product per acre is so much larger as to 

 make it a more desirable crop. 



Most of the salt marsh plants have already been described in 

 the natural history of tlie true grasses. 



The " Goose Grass," one of the most valuable of them, was 

 mentioned under its synonym, Sea Spear Grass, Fig. 30, p. 49, 



