Juncus. | CXXXII. JUNCACER. 131 
pt plas panicle sometimes very dense, sometimes looser with 1 or 
2 ofits branches elongated to several inches. Perianth- -segments about 
li lines long, the outer ones very acute, the inner with broad 
: in size à 
always produced at both ends into short tails.—R. Br. Prod. 258; 
E. Mey. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 46; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 66. 
ueensland. Rockhampton, 0' Shanesy and other 
N. S. es. Paramatta, Woolls ; Hastin gs River, hates 
Victoria. Melbourne, Adamson ; Gipps' Tad, ler. 
T ia. Common in salt and brackish aeo y pads oie on moist sand 
er, 
S King George's Sound and Lucky Bay, R. Brown, thence to 
wan ines D Adéomond > n. 194, 339 ; Preiss, n. 1865, Oldfield. 
The Species is common in maritime marshes and moist sands'in most temperate 
me e flowers in tbe Australian specimens are usually Aig smaller and 
er coloured and the inflorescence more dense than i in m» porters nes. Drum- 
nds n. 338 is a remarkably large Hok form, with the stem and a nearly 
fruits those of the nies J. maritimus. 
Fong Snp F. Mueller are two imperfect s specimens of the northern J. acutus, i 
uk m m Sie lebers Australian collection, but probably by some error. They hav 
on. 8 printed labels, and no other specimens from the southern engines 
lo e J. prismatocarpus, R. Br. Prod. 259.— Stems tufted or sto- 
üilerous and shortly creeping at dh bates 1 to 2 ft. high, more or less 
n ice sed. Leaves few, erect from long sheaths, compressed or 
early terete, bollow inside but divided by eross partitions of p 
di x a jointed appearance. Panicle terminal, erect, compact or 
Varieate wi : 
e 
J. holo Scarcely prominent inside. Seeds minute, without tails.— 
Steud. schenus, R. Br. 1. c. ; Hook. £. Fl. Tasm. ii. 65; J. commutatus, 
um. ii. 301. 
Gulli sland. Moreton Bay, aves; Armidale, Perrot ; Broad Sound 
x Sw. 
ott ales. Port hoe ge] 2 the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 431 € 
Bet en al abies England, €. Stuart; Macleay River, C. wed Clarence River 
ig ERE Vale and Gl Bir , Robertson ; Melbourne, F. Mueller. 
ema. Abundant in marsh ene er, through day Be 20. Habe. 
vM ralia, incent's fs Gall Behe, P ller and others. 
fes vedi Murchison Rivers, Drum- 
mond, n 54 114, sg e OU feld and o ek x 2 
