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BOTANY. 
^3. ARTICULATI. Stem leafy; leaves knotted by internal cross-paititious. 
* Leaves terete or slightly compressed. 
(a.) Seeds barely pointed. 
(1.) Heads 2-1-flowered ; stamens 6. 
37. J. I'ELOCARPUS, E. 'Sh-x. 6-16' high; leaves tbreadlike ; panicle compound, spreading; flowers 
small, secund ; sepals obtuse.— Xewfonndland to Wisconsin and south on the coast to Florida. Var. (?) 
suBTii.is, Eng. Creeping or floating, mostly with a single 2-flowered head ; stamens 3.— Caiuula. 
(2.) Heads few-ilowered. 
(2'».) Stamens 6. 
38. J. AiMK I i.virs, L. 9-15' high; panicle short, dense, spreading, brown ; sepals mostly acute ; 
capsule deep-brown, ovate-oblong, acute.— N. Europe ; Newfoundland ; N. England to New York and 
Delaware. 
39. J. ALfixrs. Yill. j^nrope ; Asia. Var. insignis, Fr. 9-18' high; panicle erect, elongated, 
greeuisli or liglit-brow u ; sepals obtuse; capsules light-brown, obtuse, mucronate. — From Lake Cham 
plain to N. Illinois, Colorado and Washington Territory and north to the Arctic Ocean. 
40. J. Drnius, Eng. Eodtstock thick, horizontal ; stems 1.1-3'=' high, erect, terete-compressed, as also 
the leaves ; panicK' :;-:> long, decoinpouiid, spreading; lieads 6-10-flowered, straw-color; tlowers subses- 
sile ; sepals nearly "i long, lanci'-snlxilate, very aente. eip-.al ; stamens lialf as long, the anthers rather 
exceeding the til.inienf : capsMle lineai -prisnial ie, acnic, l-eellcd. exsei ted; seeds obovate, J" long, pointed 
at Iioth ends, .VT-rilihed and ictienlate. — Kesenibling ort/mcr't!^. Big Tree Grove, California. 
-11. J. >ri(,i TAKis, l!ig. 2-4 bigli : leaf single, stout, erect; panicle about 3' long; heads mostly 
5-12-llowere(l ; sepals lanceolate, outer awl-pointed, equaling the ovate beaked 1-celled capsule.— Maine to 
Maryland. 
(2''.) Stamens 3. 
42. ,1. sri'iMi nu.Mis, laig. Stem 1 high lu- more, shorter than the erect terete leaves ; earljMeaves 
capillary, tlnating: panicle simple : heads aljont rj-llov, ered ; sepals 2" long, ovate-lanceolate, cuspidate, 
equal, or the outer a little shorter ; anthi^rs imieb shorter than the filament; style very short ; capsule 
prismatic, obtnse, nun lonate, I-celled, searccdy exsei ted ; seeds obovate, pohited at l)oth ends.— Mendo- 
cino ( ity, California. 
4::. .1. EixiOTTii, Chap. Stems slender, 1-2 high, uineh exceeding the leaves; panicle 3-4' long, 
snhs]. reading ; heads :Ml-Howere(l. gh)lM.se ; sepals 1 hmg, ovate-lanceolate, very acute, equal and nearly 
equaling the dark-hrown and shining broadly ovate obtuse very shortly mucronate 1-celled capsule; 
anthi rs scarcely exceeding the filament; stigmas subsessile ; seeds ohlanceolate, attenuate each way, 
dark-brown, ret iculated.— X. Carolina to Florida and S. ^Mississippi. 
44. .1. ACi .MiXM! Mx. r.ini. If . Mii-,;. ; heads f.'w-niany-llowered, pale or at length darker ; sepals 
lanceolate-subnhite, \ cry aenie, eqnal, e(|Haiijig or sliorter than the prismatic short-pointed capsule. — 
Very variable. From New England t<i Missouri and the l>io Crande. 
(3.) Heads many-flowered. 
(3^) Stamens 3. 
4.5. J. lUiACUVCAKiTS, Eng. 1-21 high, with 2-10 dense globose lieads in a sliort panicle; sepals 2" 
long, laneeolate-snbulate, the inner miudi shorter than the outer, but exceeding the ovoid pointed pod. — 
Ohio to Missouri and sontli to Lonisiana and Texas. 
4(1. s( iiM'oiDKs, Lam. 1-4 h.inh, A\ith few-nmny dense pale green ghdiose heads; sepals rigid, 
s)il)nlate and liristleqiointed, nearly e qualing the ])yrauiidal subulate l-celled capsule.— Variable. New 
.Jersey lo Florida ami west to Ari-.an.~:i- and Texas. 
!/. .1. lloLAXDKiu, Eng. Sterns-^ high or more, slendi'r, compressed ; sheaths of the terete leaves 
loiig-anricled ; heads 30-:>(»-lio\\ ered. soliiary or tew in a cluster, or shortly peduneled ; flowers brown, 
sessile; sep.als linear-lanceolate, subulate, 2 long, e(iual, e<inaling the clavate-tnrbinate obtuse mucro- 
nate cajisui.': tilaments 2-:; limes lunger than tin,- pointed anthers; see<ls oliovate, reticulate, i" long. — 
Near Mendocino City, California. 
(3"'.) Stamens 6. 
high: stolons tuberiferous ; heads .-^-20-flo\vered, Itrown ; sepals lance- 
I- slender beaked 1-celled caiisule; seetls ret iculated.— The typical form from 
Hudson's Hay to I'ennsvlvania and Wisconsin ;uid west to the Facitlc. Var. JiKGACKi'ifALl's, Torr. ; see 
]iage 3.JH. \',,r. 4't:xANrs. Eng. ; laller. panicle compound, tlowers larger (2J'') ami nmre numerous, an- 
thers obtuse, ..firn I wice :is long as the lilatueiits; only in Texas. 
