Juncus.) CXXXII. JUNCACER. 127 
terminal head of flowers surrounded by scarious bracts, or rarely a 
second head lower down in the axil of a leafy braet. Flower-head 
composed of condensed cymes) usually 3 to 4 lines diameter when in 
"sii twice that when in fruit, the searious bracts all shorter than the 
e 
Capsule obtuse, about as long as the perianth, dark and shining, Seeds 
obovoid or oblong, brown, obtuse or rarely with a very small white 
: : : 
Hook. f Fl. Tasm. ii. 64 ; Engel 
452, 495; J. agrostophyllus, F. Muell. in Linnea, xxvi. 245. 
, Victoria. Snowy River, Mitta-Mitta, Cobberas and other ranges of the Austra- 
lian Alps, P. Mueller, 
oth ia. On all the mountainous parts in wet places, Gunn, Archer and 
ers, 
E. Meyer originally described the species from Californian specimens with which 
he afterwards identified the Australian ones. Engelmann had int tan 
narro: er and 
prominent in the Californian than in the Australian ones, but sometimes there is 
— difference in the seeds of 2 capsules from the same country than in others from 
Capsules of the 2 countries. 
T. J. bufonius, Linn. ; Kunth, Enum. ii. 353.—A pale-coloured 
fted annual, rarely exceeding 6-8 in, and often scarcely half that 
erect, slender and branching, with a linear leaf or leafy 
Dearly 1.1; ach branch. Leaves linear, from almost filiform to 
nct l line broad, the margins involute at least in the dried state, the 
Tones sometimes exceeding the stem, all dilated at the base into 
à rather long sheath. F 
; termin 
47.4 e and numerous, without tails. —E. Mey. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 
3 ook. f. FI. Tasm. ii. 64; J. plebeius, R, Br. Prod. 259. 
Victoria ort Jackson, C. Moore, Woolls, and others. 
and others - Wendu Vale, Robertson ; about Melbourne, Adamson, F. Mueller 
Tasmania nera, Dallachy, 
Abundant i 
Hooker, in moist places throughout the colony, J. D. 
ind Australia. St. Vincent's Gulf to Rivoli Bay, and the Murray, F. Mueller, 
