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HEXANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Juncus. 



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. E. hot. 801--F/. dan. &17-H. ox. viii. 9. bSckeucb. 7. 10- 



Pluk. 32.3. 



This is now made a distinct species by Gmelin, consistent 

 with the opinion of Haller, and Ray, and on the authority of 

 Roth. fl. germ. p. 155, but I have not seen that book. The knots 

 or rather valves of the leaves in some of my specimens are just 

 observable, but in others they are not to be seen though carefully 

 searched for. 



The former grows in the bogs on Birmingham Heath, and I 

 have always considered it as a variety of the J. articulatus ; the 

 latter was sent me without a habitat, and was supposed to be a 

 viviparous var. of the J. bulbosus. 



J. Straw undivided, somewhat compressed : leaves strap- bulbo'sus. 



shaped, channelled : panicle terminating, shorter 

 than the floral leaf: cups and capsules blunt. 



Leers 13. 7-H. ox. viii. 9. 11-J. B. ii. 522. 3-//. dan. 431 





-Ban: 114. and 7*7* 1 and 2. 



From 2 inches to 2 feet high. Woodward. Ripe capsules 

 longer than the calyx. 



Bulbous Rush. Wet meadows and heaths. [Sea coast. Salt 

 water ditches, near Xarmouth. Mr. Woodward.] P. Aug. 



J. Straw forked 



flowers solitary, sitting: calyx leafits bufo'nius. 





spear-shaped, sharp-pointed :. capsule egg-shaped, 

 shorter than the calyx. 



FL dan. 1098-Dicks. h. s.-E. hot. *Q<2-Leer$ 13. S-tf. ox. 

 viii. 9. U-Ger. em. \. 1-Ger. *.A~Park. 119<). 8~Barr. 



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263. 1, 2 and26±-Rose 2. 5 and 6, and Pet. gaz. 51. 7> 



in its seedling state— Park. 1270. li- 

 lt varies very much in size, from 1 to 10 inches high ; and 

 in the smaller plants the leaves are very slender, not angular but 

 folded together. The flowers are mostly in pairs, and only 1 

 sitting, but in all of them the ripe capsules are brown, shining, 

 and shorter than the calyx. 



Toad Rush. Wet gravelly or sandy meadows and pastures, «* 



especially in places that have been overflowed in the winter, not 

 uncommon. P. May — Aug. 



J. Leaf awl -shaped : husk 2 -flowered, terminating : inner biglu'mis, 



floret standing on a fruit-stalk. 



Fl. dan. 12U- Jmoen. acad. ii. 3. 3. 



The blunt capsules and the fruit-stalk with which the inner 



flower is always provided are invariable characters in this spe- 



