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2. T. pubeilS, Ait. Stem (l°-2° high) and pedicels roughened with mi- 

 nute glands; leaves longer and narrower. — Pine ban-ens, New Jersey to Vir- 

 ginia and southward. July. 



T. palustkis, Hudson, a Northern species of both hemispheres, grows on 

 Isle Royale and the north shore of Lake Superior ; but has not yet been found 

 on the United States side. 



Order 128. JUNCACEiE. (Rush Family.; 



Grass-like or sedge-like herbs, with jointed stems, and a regular persistent 

 perianth of 6 similar glumaceous sepals, 6 or rarely 3 stamens with introrse 

 anthers, and a 1-3-cetted ovary, forming a S-valved 3 -many-seeded pod. 

 Style single. Seed anatropous, with a minute embryo enclosed at the base 

 of the albumen. — Rushes, with the flowers liliaceous in structure, but 

 grass-like in aspect and texture (excepting the ambiguous Narthecium). 



Synopsis. 



* Stigma entire. Perianth partly colored (yellowish). 



1. NARTHECIUM. Filaments woolly. Pod many-seeded. Seeds long-tailed at both ends. 



# * Stigmas 3, thread-like, hairy. Sepals glume-like. 



2. LUZULA. Pod 1-celled, 3-seeded. Leaves mostly hairy. 



8. JUNCUS. Pod 3-c.elled (sometimes imperfectly so), many-seeded. 



1. NARTHECIUM, Moehring. Bog-Asphodel. 



Sepals linear-lanceolate (yellowish). Filaments 6, woolly: anthers linear. 

 Pod cylindrical-oblong, pointed with the undivided style terminated by a single 

 6tigma, 3-cclled, loculicidal, many-seeded. Seeds appendaged at each end with 

 a bristle-form tail of great length. — Rootstock creeping, bearing linear equitant 

 leaves, and a simple stem or scape (6' - 10' high), terminated by a simple raceme; 

 (Name from vapdi]Kiov, a rod, or box for fragrant ointments; application uncer- 

 tain.) 



1. N. Americaimin, Kcr. Pedicels of the dense raceme bearing a 

 bractlet below the middle. — Bogs, pine barrens of New Jersey. June. 



2. L,tl!SUL,A, DC. Wood-Rush. 



Perianth glumaceous. Stamens 6. Stigmas 3. Pod 1-cclled, 3-seeded. — 

 Perennials, with flat and soft usually hairy leaves and spiked-crowded or um- 

 belled flowers. (Name said to be altered from the Italian lucciola, a glowworm.) 



* Flowers loosely long-peduncled, umbelled or corymbed. 



1. Li. pildsa, Willd. Leaves lance-linear, hairy; peduncles umbelled, sim- 

 ple, chiefly 1 -flowered; sepals pointed, shorter than the obtuse pod ; seeds tipped 

 with a curved appendage. — Woods and banks; common northward. May. — 

 Plant 6' -9' high. (Eu.) 



2. Li. parviflora, Desv., var. Bielajjocarpa. Nearly smooth ; 

 leaves broadly linear ; corymb decompound, loose ; pedieeh drooping ; sepals pointed, 



