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near Hill Head, Mr. W. L. Notcutt. I have no station at any dis- 

 tance from the sea-coast to give for this species, so well marked by 

 its pale flowers and very decompounded and singularly divaricate 

 panicle. 



Juncus acutijtorus. In muddy, boggy, or marshy places, on wet 

 heaths, &c. ; abundantly. Our low, wet meadows are sometimes 

 quite covered with this rush. 



Juncus lamprocarpus. With the last, and perhaps little, if at all, 

 less frequent than that. The specific name is now generally, and 

 very properly, spelt lamprocarpus instead of lampocarpus, as for- 

 merly ; the allusion being to the shining (ta^fo?) aspect of the cap- 

 sules, and not to any supposed resemblance they bear to a lamp. 



Juncus supinus (J. uliginosus). In ditches, pools and pits, espe- 

 cially, I think, on a clay soil ; also on wet, sandy heaths and com- 

 mons ; frequent. Var. |3. Stems procumbent or floating, mostly 

 proliferous. 



Juncus subverticillatus. In gravel or clay-pits, &c. In a clay -pit 

 near Bouldner. On Parkhurst Forest, &c. 



Juncus squarrosus. On moist, barren, sandy pastures, moors, and 

 heathy places. Quite rare in the Isle of Wight. On several parts of 

 Black Down, abundantly. Moist pastures immediately about the 

 Wilderness and Rookley Farm. Apparently by no means rare in main- 

 land Hants. Most abundantly on Petersfield Heath. Heath near 

 Steep. Short Heath, near Selborne. Most profusely on Wolmer 

 Forest, near the pond, about Holy Water, &c. Profusely on the dry 

 sandy heath about Ringwood and Christchurch, and probably com- 

 mon throughout the Poole basin and on the forest districts and moor- 

 lands of the county. I do not know of any distinctive name for this 

 plant in Hants, but Mr. John Laurence tells me that in his native 

 county of Aberdeen, where it abounds on the moors, it is called 

 Bruckles by the country people, which, whatever may be the import 

 of the word, is most expressive of the wire-like hardness and rigidity 

 of the species. 



Juncus compressus. Not, I have reason to believe, an uncommon 

 plant in low or marshy meadows, especially near the sea; but all the 

 stations I find amongst my notes relate to J. Gerardi, certainly the 

 prevailing species or form along the coast both of the island and main, 

 and which I am disposed to regard as a salt-marsh variety of J. com- 

 pressus. 



Juncus Gerardi (J. ccenosus). On muddy salt marshes and damp 



