HEXANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Juncus. 339 



J. Straw crooked, slender thread-shaped j panicle lateral, filifor'mis. 

 not branched^ few-flowered. 



Smith Spicileg. iii.-Zf*rjl3. 4~Scbeucb. 7* ll-P/**.40.8. 



So slender as hardly to support itself. Panicle not always 

 expanded* Florets about 5. 



Turfy bogs on mountains. Not far from Ambleside. Ray. 

 [At Windermoor, in Cartmel. Mr. Jackson*] P. Aug. 



J. Straw rigid : leaves like bristles ; panicle terminating 5 squarro'sus. 



leafless. 





>H. 



From 8 to 18 inoJies high. Root-leaves numerous, unequal 

 in length, the longest near half the length of the straw. 

 Moss Rush. Goose Corn* Barren tuify bogs on heaths. 



P. June, July.* 



pani 



cle terminating ; involucrum 2-leaved, ending in a 



thorn 





H. 



• . • 



vni. 10. 15. 



Panicle crowded, close, from 2 to 3 inches long. Involucrum, 

 sheath of the outer leaf from 1 or If to 2 inches long, termi- 



O I O * ■ .9 ° — 



leaf about L inch long, terminating in a sharp point about 



of Me 



long. Scheuch. 



Pricking large Sea-rush. 

 rionethshire. Ray. 



Var. ' . Panicle not spreading, from 3 to 6 inches long, con- 

 sisting of 2 principal branches, one of which is from 3 to up- 

 wards of 6* inches long, the other very short, immediately di- 

 viding into lesser branches. Irrvolucr. the sheath of the outer 



long 



pointed 



?hout £ inch long, ending in a finely tapering leaf from | to 1 

 inch long. Sheuch. Involucr. leaves extremely rigid and 

 sharp. Grows in tufts near 6 feet high. I am doubtful whether 

 it be not a variety of J. infiex. Woodward. 



Park. 1193.7-#. ox. viii. 10. 14. 

 Sea Hard Rush. Salt marshes, about Maldon, Essex, and 



* Horses eat it. The 

 •* the wythe. It indica 



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