Oil the Genus Juncus of LiniuBiis. 315 



the contrary, Walilenburg informs us that he never met with the 

 one-flowered variety in Lapland. It is also worthy of remark, 

 that Linnaeus's plant does not produce radical leaves; whereas 

 ours possesses them more or less, showing at the same time by 

 the awn, which terminates the scales, many fruitless attempts at 

 perfecting them, though they are more completely produced at 

 every new effort. It is the connecting link between the Jimci and 

 the LuzulcE. " Mira omnino mihi videtur species," says AVahlen- 

 burg, Flor. Lap. 81, " ad radicem prorsus aphylla. Radix re- 

 pens culmos multos fasciculatos exserens squamis tantum brevi- 

 bus interstinctos. Vaginae culmi basin vestientes brevi mucrone 

 ornattE, de caetero in fimbrias partitae. Folium in suprema parte 

 culmi plerumque adest, bracteis simillimum; ligula fimbriata 

 alba. Bracteae canaliculataj ; marginibus serrulatis. Semina in 

 singula capsula pauca : de caetero quoque structura capsulae inter 

 Juncum et Luzulam ambigit. Capsula oblonga. J. monanthos, 

 Jacq. differre mihi videtur : foliis radicalibus; et capsula ovali, 

 duplo majore, calycem excedente." 



13. Juncus uliginosus. 



Juncus, foliis setaceis canaliculaiis, floribus ternis sessilibus, cap- 

 sule obtusd calycem excedente, culmo bulboso radicante. 



J. foliis setaceis subnodoso-articulatis, capitulis trifloris subproli- 

 feris, culmo bulboso radicante. Flor. Brit. 380. Eng. Bof. xii. 

 801. 



J. culmo folioso, floribus fasciculatis, fasciculis proliferis, foliis 

 setaceis articulato-nodosis. Sibih. 115. 



Gramen junceum minimum, capsulis triangularibus. Rail Syn. 

 434. 



Gramen junceum capsulis trianguiis minimum. Moris, s. viii. 

 t. 9. f. 3. 



/3. capitulis foliaceis et gemmiparis. Var. Haii Syn. 434. 11. 

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