HEXANDRIA—MONOGYNIA. Juncus. 169 



presented by Mr. Rose, and preserved in the Linnsean herba- 

 rium. The same is described in Weigel's Obs. 36. t. 2./. 7, as a 

 cryptogamic production. 



14. J. uliginosus. Little Bulbous Rush. 



Stem leafy, bulbous at the base. Leaves bristle-shaped, 

 channelled. Heads lateral and terminal, about three- 

 flowered. Capsule obtuse, rather longer than the calyx. 



J. uliginosus. Sihth. 115. Fl. Br. 380. Engl. Bot. v. 12. ^ 801 . 

 Bicheno Tr. of L. Soc. v. 12. 31.5. Hook. Scot. 108. Relh. 138. 

 Don. H. Br. 84. 



J. articulatus 7. HudsAoQ. With. 347. 



J. bulbosus. Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 1 . 327. 



J. supinus. Don H. Br. 85. 



J. n. 1320. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 170. 



Gramen junceum, capsulis triangulis, minimum. Raii Syn. 434. 



G. junceum minimum, holosteo Matthioli congener. Moris, v. 3. 

 227. sect. 8. t.O.f.S. 



/3. Fl. Br. 380. Bicheno, as above. 



J. supinus. Mcench. Hass. n. 296. t. 5. According to Lachenal and 

 Da vail. 



Juncoides calyculis paleaceis glomeratis, folio varians, Scheuchz. 

 Jgr. 330. t.7.f. 10. 



Gramen junceum a(iuaticum, paniculis cum foliis capillarihus simul 

 ortis, proliferum. Pluk. Phyt. t, 32. f. 3. Moris, v. 3. 227. sect. 8. 

 t.9.f.A. 



On moist sandy or turfy heaths frequent. 



Perennial. June, July. 



Root of several fibres. Stems at first erect, from 2 to 6 inches 

 high, slightly leafy, somewhat branched^ subsequently reclining ; 

 bulbous at the base. Leaves slender, acute, semicylindrical, 

 channelled, not externally knotty or jointed ; though cellular, 

 like the whole genus, within ; radical ones several, with a di- 

 lated, membranous, often reddish, base, sheathing the bulbous 

 part of the stems. Ft. usually 3 together, in small, lateral or 

 terminal, reddish heads, with leafy bracteas. Calyx-leaves lan- 

 ceolate, acute, keeled, with 3 slender ribs 3 dark brown in decay. 

 Caps, light brown, narrow, prismatic, obtuse, a little longer 

 than the calyx. 



In /3, the stem being decumbent, several of the Jloivers are co- 

 piously viviparous, whether from transformation of their organs, 

 or premature germination of the seeds from wet, is not very 

 evident. The plant itself, on open wet heaths, is common enough. 

 The Rev. Dr. Burgess sent Scottish specimens formerly to Lin- 

 naeus. 



I first ascertained it;, when a very young botanist, in 1779, on 



