300 JUNCACEAE 



Top. Bot. 430. Sj-me, E. B. x. 24, t..i562. Nyman, 746. Fl. Oxf. 310. 

 Native. Paludal. Wet roadsides, marshes. Rare. P. July-August. 

 First record. Mr. H. Boswell in i86r in Herb. Brit. Mus. 



2. Ock. Childswell Farm, Bosicell, I c 



5. Loddon. Near Loddon Bridge, by a roadside with J. glaucus and 

 J. effiisus. 



J. (Uffusus is recorded for all the bordering counties except Bucks. 

 I have little doubt that it is a hybrid of the two species mentioned. 

 See a note by the author in Journ. Bot. (1884) 348, and Fl. Oxf. 310. 



J. effiisus, var. b, Linn. Sp. PI, 326 (1753) and Fl. Suec. ed. 2, iii 



(1755). Soft Rush. 



J. laevis, Gerard, 30. 

 Top. Bot. 430. Syme, E. B. x. 21, t. 1561. Nyman, 746. Fl. Oxf. 310. 

 Native. Paludal. Marshes, wet ditches, moist heaths, roadsides, 



woods, &c. Common and generally distributed except in caltivated 



land and chalk downs. P. June-August. 

 First record. Near Oxford, Sir Jos. Banks, 1760, and Sonning, 3Ir. S.Rudge 



in Herb. Brit. Mus. 1800. Published in Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. 

 J. effnsiis is found in all the bordering counties. 



J. conglomeratus, Linn. Sp. PI. 326 (1753). Clustered Rush. 



J. laevis vulgaris, panicula compadiore, Ray, Syn. 273. J. Leersii, Th. Fr. 



Marsson, Fl. Neu-Vorpomm. 451 (1869). 

 Top. Bot. 430. Syme, E. B. x. 20, t. 1560. Nyman, 746. Fl. Oxf. 310. 

 Native. Paludal. Wet fields, ditches, heaths, and marshy places. 



Common and generally distributed over the uncultivated portions 



of Berkshire. P. May-August. 

 First record. Near Oxford, Sir Joseph Banks, 1760, and Sonning, Mr. S. 



Rudge, in Herb. Brit. Mus. 1800. Published as J. conglomeraius, 



Dr. Noehden, Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. 

 ./. conglomeraius is found in all the bordering counties. 



The stem of this and the preceding species, when divested of the green 

 portion, formed the wick of the old rush-lights — an industry not quite 

 extinct ; the white pith is also twisted into ornaments by vagrants. 



The chief difference between it and J. effusus is to be found in the capsule, 

 which in this species is mucronate, and the capsule has a depression, and 

 not a small protuberance, in the centre ; the striae on the stem are distinctly 

 rugulose ; in J. effusus the stem is usually smoother and softer, and of a paler 

 green. They are kept distinct by Buchenau, although made synonymous in 

 the Index Keioensis. Bnchenau's Monograph of the European Juncaceae 

 will be found in Engler^s Botanische-Jahrbilcher (1886), 153-176. 



J. bulbosus, Linn. Sp. PI. 327 (1753), not of Herb, or Sp. PI. ed. 2. 

 Lesser .Jointed Rush. 

 J. supinus, Moench, Enum. PI. Hass. i. 167 (1777), not of Bicheno. 

 Top. Bot. 432. Syme, E. B. x. 32, t. 1570. Nyman, 748. Fl. Oxf. 311. 



