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longioribus ; ovario lineari-lanceolato in stylum perbrevem 
sensim abeunte, stigmatibus exsertis; capsula obtuse triangu- 
lata pyramidata acutata atro-rubente lucida semitriloculari 
longe exserta; seminibus lineari-oblongis multo-lineatis longe 
caudatis.—J. erythrocarpus, Chapm. olim in sched. 
South-eastern and southern States, from South Carolina, 
Curtis, Ravenel, Hb. n. 89, to Florida, Chapman, Hb. n. 90, 
Alabama, Bigelow, and Louisiana, Hale; fl. Sept. & fr. Oct.— 
Similar to the next but with much smaller flowers, long pro- 
truding pyramidal capsule, slender stamens inconstant in 
number and larger seeds. Rigid cespitose stems “from a 
thick and creeping rhizoma” (Chapman); panicles in most of 
the specimens before me 2-6 inches in length and quite con- 
tracted, the principal branch of the panicle being often strict- 
ly erect and quite elongated,—in others more open ; fruit- 
heads 2-4 lines in diameter, with 2-4 or 5 flowers; flowers 
13 lines long, with very unequal strongly nerved sepals; 
capsule much longer, sometimes twice as long as flowers, 
regwarly pyramidal from an oval base, deep red brown or al- 
most black. The number of stamens is quite variable, but 
more frequently 3 than 6; in 40 flowers of eight different spe- 
cimens, from all the localities mentioned above, I have found 
only 4 with 679 with 5, 11 with 4, and 16 with 3 stamens, 
and in no instance did all the flowers of one plant exhibit the 
same number of stamens. Seeds, without the appendages, 
0.45-0.50 line long, their length being equal to 25 or 23 diam- 
eters; appendages straw-colored or white, upper one mostly 
as long or longer than the seed, lower one stouter and short- 
er, as is usually the case in the appendages of Juncus seeds; 
whole seeds with the tails 1-12 lines long; striz of seed very 
numerous and close.—This may possibly be the same as J. trt- 
gonocarpus, Steud. Glum. 2, p. 308, of which I have not been 
able to obtain a specimen or a satisfactory description. 
46. J. asPER, n. sp.. caulibus (bipedalibus et ultra) caespi- 
tosis teretibus cum foliis papilloso-asperatis; paniculze compo- 
site seu decompositze ramis erecto-patulis; capitulis pauci- 
(2-6)floris; sepalis late lanceolato-subulatis rigidis multiner- 
viis ]eevibus, interioribus longioribus stamina 6 duplo super- 
antibus; antheris late linearibus filamentum late subulatum 
fere equantibus; ovario lanceolato in stylum eo breviorem 
abeunte, stigmatibus exsertis ; capsula ovato-oblonga sursum 
triangulari rostrata rufo- vel virescenti-fusca lucida semitri- 
loculari sepala vix excedente; seminibus majusculis ovato- 
oblongis costato-lineolatis longe caudatis. 
Thus far only in New Jersey, where it was found many 
years ago, at Quakerbridge, Pickering in Hb. Ac. Philad., 
Durand ; re-discovered within the last few years “in a sphag- 
nous swamp at Griflith’s, 64 miles south-east of Philadelphia, 
