SOB Mr. J. E. BicHENo's Observations 



J. bulbosus, foliis linearibus canaliculatis, culmo basi folioso, pa- 

 niculdcymosfi, capsulisobtusis. Flor. Brit.SSl. Eiig.Bot. xiii. 

 934. 



J. bulbosus, foliis linearibus canaliculatis, capsulis obtusis. Sp. 

 PLA66. Huds.l50. Relh. U5. Siblh. 115. Abbot, 79. Leers 

 11. Herb. 89- t. xiii. /. 7. 



J. parvus cum pericarpiis rotund is. Kaii Si/n^ 433. 



Gramen juncoides junci sparsa panicula. Pa7-k. 1190. ?•? 



Gramen junceum aquaticum. Ger. 11. 2. Ger. Em.12.2. Park. 

 1269. 3. 



Angl. Round-fruited Rush. Rusliie Water Grass. 



Habitat in pascuis humidis. 



Peren. July, August. 



Root creeping, horizontal, fibrous, not bulbous. Stem erect, from 

 six to twelve inches high, simple, cylindrical at the base, com- 

 pressed upwards, smooth, leafy, particularly at the base. Leaves 

 linear, channelled, dilated and involute at the base, striated. 

 Panicle inclining to a corymb, compound, many-flowered, the 

 first branch longer than the others. Bractes foliaceous, chan- 

 nelled ; the lowermost longer than the panicle. Calyx-leajiets 

 obtuse, brown, scariose at the edge, shorter than the capsule. 

 Capsule rotund, very obtuse, mucronate. 



I have ventured to separate Linnaeus's Juncus bulbosus into two 

 species, and to abolish the trivial name altogether, in consequence 

 of the confusion of synonyms that it has occasioned, and its total 

 want of appropriateness. The plant bearing this name in the first 

 edition of the Species Plantarum, is the uliginosus of Smith and of 

 the present paper (which has a bulbous root), as appears from 

 the remarks of Ehrhart; and the transfer of it in the succeeding 

 editions to the present plant, seems to have originated in an over- 

 fciglit of the illustrious Swede. The name given by Jacquin is 



very 



