318 Mr. J. E. BiciiENo's Observations 



three together, terminal, clustered. JSrac^es setaceous ; one or 



more frequently foliaceous, longer than the flowers, and forcing 



them on one side. Cahjx-leafiets lanceolate, chesnut-coloured. 



Capsule oblong, rather obtuse, three-sided, not quite so long as 



the calyx. 



The synonyms I have quoted may I think be depended on. 

 The figure in Flor. Dan. 1099. represents the plant stronger than 

 it usually is; and in which case it occasionally produces branches 

 of lateral flowers, but in its more common state they are only ter- 

 minal. Bauhin, in his Hist. ii. 523., has probably described and 

 figured this species under his Junciis foliatus minimus. The syno- 

 nym brought from Symon's Synopsis is determined by authentic 

 specimens in the herbarium of my friend Mr. Edward Forster, 

 F.L.S., which formerly belonged to Hudson, and from which the 

 character and description in that little work were drawn up. 



Mr. George Don, who has the merit of first pointing out the 

 species as of British growth, makes the following remarks : " I 

 observed this plant, in October 1804, by the side of a rivulet 

 near the summit of Ben Lawers, in a situation where the snow 

 remains the greater part of the year, and not far from the spot 

 where I first discovered the Juncus castaneiis in May 1794, at which 

 time the first-mentioned place was covered with snow. I have 

 cultivated the plant, and carefully compared my specimens in 

 their different appearances with the figure in Flora Danica, which 

 I consider as a just resemblance of this variable plant. The 

 leaves which accompany the flowers, where they become terminal, 

 give the plant the appearance of being viviparous. The plants, 

 which I have cultivated, flowered in July ; but in their native 

 place they do not probably show their flowers earlier than August 

 or September." Don's Herb. Brit.fasc.lv. 85. 



This plant, to say the least of it, appears very different from the 

 rest. Its near approach to uliginosus, and the strong disposition 



there 



