JUNCACEJE. (RUSH FAMILY.) 505 
Desvaux.) Mountains, Maine .o N. New York/ July. - StemsT’ 
igh, scattered. Flowers and pod straw-color or brown. 
* « Flowers in spikes or close clusters 
, eampestris, DC. Leaves flat, linear: svikes 4-12 
otTeT * u ™ belled ’'° TO,d . straw-color, some of them long-peduncled’ 
others nearly sessile; sepals bristle-pointed, longer than the nKin 
woods Se M S ay Wlth & C0 " iCal a PP enda S e a ‘ the base.-Dry fields and 
on \, L ‘ “ r ® nA,a ’ Me yer. Leaves channelled, linear; spikes 3-5 
ciliatelinLdf-'" ”T7“* pedunclcs ’ nvo < chestnut-brown ; bracfs’ 
cil ate-fnnged; sepals taper-pointed, longer than the obtuse nod ■ seeds 
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short noTnte’d SeP A br,e '! e -P olnted . freely as long as the abruptly 
Mountains of 
3. Jtarcrs, L. Rush. Boo Rush. 
Stamens 6, or sometimes 3. Stigmas 3. Pod 3-celled (often 
imperfectly so at maturity), loculicidal, many-seeded. - Chiefly 
perennials, with pithy stems, and cymose, panicled, or clustered 
small (greenish or brownish flowers. (The classical name, from 
jungo, to join, alluding to their use for bands.) 
Scapes naked and simple from matted running rootstocks, many of 
them barren, furnished with short leafless sheaths at the base : flowers 
in a sessile cymose panicle from the side of the scape above the mid- 
dle,b.androus (except in JVo. 1) ; seeds not appendaged. 
nr L - (Common or Soft Rush.) Scape soft and 
. finely striated; panicle diffusely much-branched 
sometimes closely crowded), many-flowered; sepals green, lanceo- 
ate, very acute, as long as the obovate very obtuse and pointless pod ; 
stamens usually 3.— Marshy ground, very abundant. June. 
2. J. filiformis, L. Scape slender (10'-20' high), pliant; 
panicle few-flowered, simple; sepals green, lanceolate, acute, rather 
longer than the very obtuse but short-pointed pod. (J. seticeus, 
Torr FZ.)— Mountains of New England, and banks oflakes, N. New 
York and westward. July. 
J. Balticiis, Willd. Scape rigid { 2°-4° high) ; panicle as - 
cen ing, loose, dark chestnut-colored; sepals ovate-lanceolate, the 3 
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