314 Mr. J. E. BiCHENo's Observations 



of Brown's Prod. Flor. Not. Holl. ; and whose name, therefore, bein^ 

 first applied to another species, ought to take precedence of that 

 in Eng. Bot. Plants brought from the Cambridge garden as au- 

 thentic specimens are, I think, a variety of J. pygmceusof the French 

 botanists; but they are so unlike the figure in English Botany, that 

 I cannot persuade myself but that there is some mistake. 



12. JUNCUS TRTFIDUS. 



JuNCus culmo nudo, capsula oblongd calycem aequante, bracteis 

 foliaceis canaliculatis floribusque tribus terminalibus. 



J. culmo basi nudo, apice triphyllo subtrifloro. Rost. Mono- 

 graph. 54. 



J. culmo nudo, foliis floribusque tribus terminalibus. Sp. PI. 465. 

 Flor. Dan. 107. Huds. 149- Liglitf. 183. t. 9./. 1. With. 345. 

 Flor. Brit. 378. Eng. Bot. xxi. 1482. 



J. monanthos. Jacq. Obs. 33. t. 4. /". 1. 



J. acumine reflexo, minor et trifidus. Bauh. Prod. t. 22. 



Angl. Three-leaved Rush. Trifid Rush. Three-cleft Rush. 



Habitat in paludibus alpinis Scoticis, rariCis. 



Peren. July. 



P.oot creeping, fibrous. Stems very numerous, from a few inches 

 to a foot in height, filiform ; at the base sheathed with nume- 

 rous awned brown scales, which are terminated abruptly with 

 a membranous and fringed border; awns in the upper scales 

 more or less leafy. Flozeers from one to three, terminal, ac- 

 companied by three foliaceous channelled bractes, two of them 

 near the flower, the third sometimes at a distance, membranous 

 at their base, fringed at their border. Califx-leaflets scarcely so 

 long as the capsule. Capsule oblong, large, shining, acuminate ; 

 cells few-seeded. 

 Lightfoot says that he found the Scotch specimens all with 



a single flower, corresponding with Jacquin's J. monanthos. On 



the 



