162 PHANEROGAMIC FLORA OF SPITZBERGEN. 
five interior sepals, which are placed in a single whorl, and all united . 
at base in an extremely short tube, they are oblong, acute, membrana- 
ceous, rotately expanded. The five stamens stand erect, united at base 
in a ring, which is adnate to the tube of the calyx ; filaments submem- 
branaceous, rigidly erect, dilated at base, very slender above, fixed 
opposite segments of calyx; anthers ovate, cleft at the base to the 
middle, where they are affixed, recurved in bud, afterwards curved and 
oscillatory on the apex of the filament. The ovary is 4 line long, 
1-loeular, with a single erect ovule, and terminated by a slender 3-fid 
style, the length of the stamens. Fruit a small, indehiscent, subglo- 
bular capsule, enclosing a single seed, attached at base, and covered by 
two distinct integuments; the embryo is cyclically curved round a 
small mass of farinaceous albumen; the radicle pointing to the base is 
terete, much narrower, and 1 the length of the two fleshy, incum- 
bent, curved cotyledons. 
EXPLANATION OF Prate XVIII. 
The Plate shows a drawing of Bou ia gracilis, nat. size —Fig. li 
flower seen from below, to show m relative eon of He bracts and oe M 
ig. - S ng. 
Fig. 6. The — nt open, showing its five inner T segments and the stamens at- 
tached to its short tube. Fig. qs The ovary, Style, and stigmata. Fig. 8. bue 
dehiscent capsule. Fig. 9. Fig. 10. A lon ludin cub n of 
Fig. 11. The embryo extracted. Fig. 12. The indi. aroei prie 
men, round which the embryo is coiled —all kee magnified, 
SYNOPSIS OF THE PHANEROGAMIC FLORA OF 
SPITZBERGEN. 
By A. J. MALMGREN. 
(Concluded from page 147.) 
MONOCOTYLEDONEZ. 
Juncacex, De Cand. 
67. Juncus biglumis, L. —Searce as far as Brandywine Bay, om wet 
soil, covered with humus or moss. At Augusti Bay, on a mountain, 
plateau near the snow-line. In flower at Treurenburg Bay, 6th of 
July, and with ripe seed, at Lomme Bay, 23rd of August. 
