JUNCACE.^. 423 



JUNCACE/E. 



Rush. 



Mostly marsh plants, with erect green often round 

 stems and leaves, in external appearance not unlike the 

 Sedges. Flowers in clusters, but though small and 

 brown, complete, with six brown and hard sepals 

 and petals (which do not fall off), six stamens with 

 erect anthers attached at their bases to the filaments, 

 and a superior ovary with three long stigmas on a short 

 or long style, ripening into a small capsule which opens 

 in three segments. Seeds anatropous, many in Juncus, 

 and three only in Luzula. 



In everything except the hard persistent sepals and 

 petals, the flowers are very similar to those of the 

 LILIACE^. 



Species 200, in cold damp spots all over the world. 



Seeds many in the capsule juncus. 



Seeds three only in the capsule luzula. 



Juncus glaucus Ehrh. ; F.B.I. vi 393, I 3 ; common 



Rush. Stems numerous, from a slender creeping rhizome, 



erect, round, striate, rigid, with sheaths enveloping the 



base. Flower-cluster Yzto lYz inches, at about one-third 



from the top of the stem, which thins out above it to a 



slender point. Sepals lanceolate J^ to ^ inch. Stamens 



six. Capsule ovoid, mucronate, seeds obtuse at both ends. 



The common Rush of the Kodaikanal lake. Bourne 1875. 



Gen. Dist. North temperate climates, Himalayas from Kashmir to Nepal, 

 southern end of the Western Ghats. 



Juncus prismatocarpus Br. ; F.B.I. vi 395, I 12. 

 Stems tufted, compressed, 2 to 18 inches. Leaves in two 

 ranks; sheaths iM inches; blades I to 3 inches, cylin- 

 drical or flattened, % inch wide, soft, hollow and divided 

 internally by partitions % toU inch apart (which can 

 be felt or seen on the outside). Flower bunches at the 



