316 Mi. J. E. BiCiiENo's Observatiom 



J. uliginosus. With. 348. 



Gramen jiinceum minimum, paniculis foliaceis. Moris, s. viii. 

 t. 9. /. 4. 



G. junceum aquaticum paniculis cum foliis capillaribus. Plulc. 

 Phyt. t. 32./. 3. 



Juncoides calyculis paleaceis, glomcratis folio varians. Schcuch. 

 Agrost. 330. t.l.f. 30. 



y. culmo longiore, foliis caulinis subnodoso-articulatis, capitulis 

 proliferis. 



J. Jluitans, culmo bulboso tenui radicante, foliis setaceis sub- 

 nodoso-articulatis, capitulis trifloris subproliferis. Lamarck 

 Diet. iii. 270. Flor. Gal. 152. 



J. uliginosus. Flor. Dan. 817. 



Angl. Bulbous Rush. Little bulbous Rush. The least tri- 

 angular-seeded Rush. 



Peren. July, August. 



Habitat in ericetis humidis arenosis, vel turfosis; y in stagnis. 



Root fibrous. Stem bulbous at the base, erect, leafy, slender, 

 branched upwards; branches divaricate. Leaves setaceous, 

 smooth, channelled, cellular; cells in a double row, the par- 

 titions of one being opposite to the middle of another in the 

 corresponding series ; in y some are articulate. Flowers three 

 together, lateral and terminal, sessile. Bracies small, scariose, 

 shorter than the flowers, excepting in the viviparous variety as it 

 is improperly called, in which they are lengthened out like the 

 leaves. Calyx-leaflets all of the same length, scariose at the 

 edge, chocolate-coloured; keel green. Co/jsji^e three-sided, 

 obtuse, opake, somewhat longer than the calyx. 



This plant has, till lately, been in a very unsettled state, as 

 may be seen by the numerous synonyms quoted by most authors. 

 It is not readily distinguishable in some states from other species ; 



but 



