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BOTANY. 
spatlic ; heads few- (3-5-) flowered ; anthers 3-4 times longer than the fila- 
ment. — Sierras of CaUfornia ; near Carson City, (Anderson.) 
JuNCUS NODOsus, L., Var. megacephalus, Torr. From New York and 
New Jersey to the Saskatchewan and southward beyond the Mis8is.sii)[)i to 
Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and CaUfornia. Valleys of Nevada; 4-G,000 
feet altitude. (1,202.) 
JuNCUS Meetensianus, Bong. Eng., I. c, 479. Stems 4-14' high, from 
a thick running rootstock, caaspitose, compressed, weak ; leaves aversely com- 
pressed, usually 1-1" wide, sheath auricled ; flowers 15-25, dark-brown, ped- 
icelled, in a single (rarely 2-3) rather loose head, 4-6" broad ; sepals ovate- 
lanceolate, the outer acuminate-subulate, the inner obtuse and mucronate, or 
rarely acute and equaling tlie outer ones, exceeding the (3-) 6 stamens and 
equaling or exceeding the broadly obovate obtuse mucronate capsule ; anthers 
usually mucronate, equaling or shorter than the filaments ; style mostly shorter 
than the obtuse ovary ; seeds oblanceolate-obovate, short-caudate at each end, 
reticulatc-costate.— Sitka and Unalaska, and in the mountains from Washing- 
ton Territory and eastward to California and Colorado. East Humboldt and 
Clover Mountains, Nevada, and in the Uintas ; 7-9,000 feet altitude; July- 
September. (1,203.) 
JuNCUs xiPHioiDES, E. Mey., Eng., I. c, 481. Stems 1-4° high, from 
a thick running rootstock, 2-edged ; leaves compressed and equitant; flowers 
about 11" long, pedicelled, few or many, in few or many heads ; sepals lance- 
olate, subulate-acuminate, equal, or the inner ones more obtuse and shorter, 
nearly twice longer tlian the 6 (rarely 3) stamens, usually equaling the angular 
acute mucronate or l^eakcd capsule ; anthers oblong-hnear, about equaling the 
filaments ; ovary ovate, attenuate into a rather short style, stigmas subexserted ; 
se(Mls (»vatc-lanceolate, pointed at each end, reticulated and transversely lined.— 
Var. a. LiTTORALis, Eiig. Stout, 2-4° high; leaves broad, (3-6";) sheaths 
rarely appeniUiged ; panicles often decompound, 4-8' long, with 3-20 straw- 
colored or brown flowers in each head; sepals subequal, scarcely shorter than 
the a( ut(^ ..r beaked capsuh- anthers often pointed, a little exceeding the fila- 
ment ; seeds <.l>Iaiice.»late.— California. On the Truckee River and Soda Lake 
Nevada. (1,204.) 
Var. moxtaxus, Eng. Lower, J-2° higli ; leaves narrower (J 4 J")'and 
mostly auricled at base; heads 3-10-flowere,l, rather numerous and panicled; 
flowers pale and a little smaller, the imier sepals shorter and mostly acute, the 
