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JUNCACEiE. (RUSH FAMILY.) 
celled ovary, forming a S-valved 3- many-seeded pod. 
Style single. Seeds anatropous, with a minute embryo 
inclosed at the base of the albumen.—Bushes, with the 
flowers liliaceous in structure, but grass-like in aspect and 
texture (excepting the ambiguous Narthecium, which would 
stand directly next to Tofieldia were not the styles perfectly 
united). 
Synopsis, 
* Stigma entire. Perianth partly colored. 
1. Narthecium. Filaments woolly. Seeds long-tailed at both ends. 
* * Stigmas 3, thread-like, hairy. Sepals glume-like. 
2. Luzula. Pod 1-celled, 3-seeded. Leaves mostly hairy. 
3. Juncus. Pod 3-celled (sometimes imperfectly), many-seeded. 
NARTHECIUM, Moehring. Bog-Asphodel. 
Sepals linear-lanceolate (yellowish). Filaments 6, woolly: 
anthers linear. Pod cylindrical-oblong, pointed with the undivid¬ 
ed style terminated by a single stigma, 3-celled, loculicidal, many- 
seeded. Seeds appendaged with a bristle-form tail at each end of 
great length. Rootstock creeping, bearing linear equitant leaves 
and a simple stem or scape, terminated by a simple raceme. 
(Name from vapO^Kiov, a rod , or box for fragrant ointments; ap¬ 
plication uncertain.) " » 
1 N. Americanum, Ker. Pedicels of the dense raceme 
bearing a bractlet below the middle. — Bogs, Pine barrens of New 
12Mhigh ** Une —® ca P e ( a lm°st naked) and the narrow leaves^- 
*■ 1-tzClA, DC. Wood-rush. 
Stamens 6. Stigmas 3. Pod 1 -celled, 3-seeded. —Perennials, 
with flat and soft usually hairy leaves and spiked-crowded or um- 
belled flowers. (Name said to be altered from the Italian luaiola, 
a glowworm.) 
» Flowers loosely long-peduncled, vmbelled or corymbed. 
i ,* iP*, * a ’ Leaves lanceolate-linear, hairy ; pedun- 
cles vmbelled, simple, chiefly 1-flowered ; sepals pointed, shorter than 
the obtuse pod; seeds tipped with a curved appendage. - Woods and 
banks. May.-Plant 6'- 9> high. 
2 - I>. parviflora, Desvaux. Nearly smooth; leaves broadly 
