ET —— JUNCACEH. (RUSH FAMILY.) 
very acute, as long as the globose dark green capsule. — Low grounds, Florida to 
North Carolina. May and June.— Stem 1°-8° high. Panicle dense or elon- 
gated. 
§ 2. Stems jointed, leafy: clusters or panicles terminal. 
* Leaves terete or somewhat flattened, knotted :' stamens 3. 
6. J. scirpoides, Lam. Rigid; stem stout, erect ; leaves terete, panicle 
erect, contracted, the few large globose green or brownish heads composed of 
several more or less distinct smaller ones; sepals lanceolate-subulate, as long as 
the lanceolate taper-pointed 3-angled capsule; seed ovoid, reticulated, without 
appendages. (J. echinatus, Ell.) — Varies with the smaller more numerous and 
crowded heads conspicuously lobed by the more distinct clusters, and with 
broader and shorter sepals and capsules. — Sandy swamps, Florida to North 
Carolina. July~Sept.— Stem 2° high, from a thick and creeping rhizoma. 
Heads 4" - 7" in diameter. 
7. J. polycephalus, Ell., Michx. in part. Stem tall, slender, compressed 
near the base ; leaves long, flattened, and often somewhat sword-shaped ; panicle » 
large, widely spreading, the numerous globose many-flowered pale heads sessile, 
or on long diverging peduncles ; sepals linear-subulate, shorter than the lance- 
olate-subulate 3-angled capsule; seeds oblong, striate, barely pointed. — Ponds 
and miry margins of streams, Florida to North Carolina. July - Sept. — pen - 
2°-4° long. Leaves weak, 1° - 2? long, sometimes 3^ wide. !| 
Var.? depauperatus, Torr. Stem and leaves more slender; heads small- 
er and fewer-flowered ; sepals lanceolate, shorter than the oblong capsule —Wet 
places, Georgia, and northward. — Roots fibrous. Stems often decumbent and 
rooting. 
8. J. paradoxus, Meyer. Stem rigid, erect, terete ; leaves terete ; panicle 
erect ; heads pale, 8— 15-flowered, sessile, and on short erect peduncles ; sepals 
lanceolate-subulate, rigid, shorter than the oblong 3-angled abruptly pom d 
capsule ; seeds with along and slender appendage at each end.— Wet places, 
South Carolina, Curtis, and northward. July - Sept. — Stem 1° - 2? high. 
9. J. acuminatus, Michx. Stem erect, terete, like the slender leaves; 
panicle mostly simple, erect; heads (2-3! long) 3 — 8-flowered ; sepals ae : 
lanceolate, half as long as the lanceolate-oblong abruptly pointed s-angled light 
brown capsule; seeds with a short appendage at each end. — Sandy mee p 
in the middle districts of Georgia, and northward. July - Sept. — Stem 
high. Root fibrous. Capsule 2" long. 
10. J. Elliottii. Stem slender, nearly terete ; leaves terete, grooved ie 
the base within ; panicle erect, simple or compound ; heads (1" - 2" eget 
flowered ; sepals ovate-lanceolate, as long as the ovoid obscurely i 
“deep chestnut capsule ; seeds oblong, striate, without appendages. (107^. 
tus, Ell., not of Michx.) — Bogs and ditches, Florida to North Carolina. ° 
often bearing small tubers. Stem 19-39 high” °° x 
