CATALOGUE. 357 
2-3 times longer than the filaments ; stigmas included, scarcely equaling the 
linear-prismatic ovary; capsule prismatic, pointed, exscrt, 3-cclled; seeds, 
oblong, finely striate-ribbed, long-caudate.— Mountains of Colorado, Califor- 
nia and Oregon. East Humboldt and Clover Mountains, Nevada, and in the 
Wahsatch; 8-10,000 feet altitude ; July-September. (1,198.) 
JuNCUS BUFONius, L. Everywhere. Frequent through Nevada and 
Utah, usually in the valleys ; 4-6,000 feet altitude ; but also collected (dwarf 
specimens, ¥ high, 2-3-flowered) in the Clover Mountains, Nevada, witli the 
next, at a height of 9,000 feet ; May-September, (1,199.) 
JuNCUS TRiFOEMis, Eng.; L c, 492. Annual; stems very low, leafy, 
branched ; peduncles capillary, scapelike, numerous, ^-4' long, much exceed- 
ing the short (2-12" long) filiform leaves, which are channeled, but Hat to- 
ward the apex; flowers 1-6, in small heads or solitary ; sepals lancc-subiilafe, 
equal, 1-li" long, about equaling the ovate-obtuse mucronate 2-3-celIed cap- 
sule ; seeds ovate, obtuse, short-pointed, faintly ribbed and transvez'sely lined. 
Var. UNIFLORUS, Eng. Very small, 1' high or less, with the solitary 2-bracied 
flowers mostly dimerous, (sepals 4, stamens, stigmas and carpels in paii's.) — 
California. Clover Mountains, Nevada; 9,000 feet altitude; September. 
Less than a half-inch high ; bracts very small, nearly obsolete. With a di- 
minutive state of the last: evidently a starved, stunted form. (1,200.) 
JuNCUS LONGiSTYLis, Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 223. Eng., I. c, 453. 
Stems 1-2^ high, caespitose, stoloniferous, teretish above, usually minutely 
scabrous, leafy; leaves flat, grass-like, 1" wide, shorter than the stem; heads 
few (5-9) in a contracted (IJ-S' long) panicle, S-S-flowercd, or rarely sini(le 
and 12~15-flow^ered ; flowers 2J-3" long, greenish with brown lines, smooth, 
pedicelled; se^jals equal, ovate-lanceolate, acute or cuspidate; stamens 6. oiie- 
half as long; filaments half as long as the anthers; ovary e(|uarm<r the sta- 
mens and style; stigmas exserted ; capsule ovate, ol)tuse, niiu'riuiate or 
rostrate, chestnut-colored and shining, S-ce-lled, e^iuali))!: or a lillle exceeding 
the calyx; seeds oblanceolate or obovate, p(»inled, eo.-lat. -reticulate. —From 
New Mexico and Arizona northward to tlu' Saskatelu'wan and W;i>]iinirjr»n 
Territory. In wet meadows in Nevada and Utah; 4-8,000 feet altitude; 
June-September. (1,201.) 
Van LATiFOLius, Eng. ; /. 496. Stem 1° high, naked or with a single 
leaf at base, much exceeding tiie short linear-lanceolate l.-aves, 2 \n\\rr, 
2-3" wide; panicle simple, longer than the membranous or rarely luliaceous 
