126 CXXXII. JUNCACER. | Juncus. 
campestris. Stems v ram usually 1 to 11 ft. hi d but sometimes 
much lower, with a terminal compound u nequally branched cyme, the 
lower branches oftea clustered. Braéte all small and scarious, or rarely 
1 or 2 leafy ones at the base of the inflorescence. owers brown, in 
globular clnsture at the base of the ramifications and ends of the 
connected at the base m numerous ovules, Capsule mucronate or 
scarcely acuminate, about as long as the perianth. Seeds ovoid, very 
small, the a bt rotiettiioó visible only under a 4 in. lens. — Hook. 
f. Fl. Tasm. i. 64. 
S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Sieber, Woolls and others; New 
Bagland ae Stuart ; Macleay Riven, DR Moore. 
Vict Port Philli 
p, F. Mueller ; Wimmera, Dallachy hy. t 
bakad Table Saintin Mount Wellington), R. Brown; abundan 
Coushoat theisland, J. D. Hooker. 
tralia. Lofty ee a owe nnd St. Vincent's Gulf, F. Muel: ller. r 
ing Geo ind and neighbouring districts, Maxwell, 
WW. Ass tralia. 
Mueller, Drummond, n. m 366, Sta 
Var. tenella. Stems mostly under 6 in., very Vander, iw MET narrow leaves. 
Flower-heads small with few flowers, but not so small as J. gracilis. Flowers 
androus and cess shortly mucronate as in ihe nig J. planifolius. —Mount 
M‘Ivor, F. Muelle: 
3. J. cæspititius, E. Mey. in Pl. Preis 47 and in Linnes 
xxvi, 244.—The larger Aierbe Ta ainin. ak resemble J. plani- 
Jolius, but the leaves are always much narrower and the stamens appear 
tems rarely much above 1 ft. high. Inflorescence when mue 
developed the same as in J. planifolius, but the flowers rather larger, 
the inner segments entirely excluding the outer before expansion 
and enclosing g the 6 stamens. Placentas parietal with numerous omy 
and tailless and smooth unless under a high power as 
planifolius Capsule rather shorter than the perianth and almost t ob- 
Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 64. 
Victoria. Wendu Ten Robertson ; Snowy River, F. Mueller. 
Tasmania. In the northern parts of the island, J. D. Hooker. 
^ . Mue 
Swan River, » Drummond, lst coll. and n. 336, 937 ; Preiss, n. 1733 
Murchison River Oldfield. 
4. J, falcatus, E. Mey. Syn. Luzul. 34, and in Linnea, xxvi. 45.— 
Rhizome stoloniferous. Leaves at the base of the stem flat, ret e 
shorter thau the stem, rer 1 line broad or rather more. s6 
tol ft. high, bearing usually 1 leaf at or above the middle ary a » single 
