810 juNuACE^, (hush family.) 



M. sotoolifera, C. A. M. If Corm minute, at the tip of a hori- 

 zontal, cylindrical, thickish sprout. Leaves 3, as long as liowers, 

 linear, at length elongated. FloYrers 1-2, lilac; claws filiform; limb 

 .025 long, linear-lanceolate, obtuse, tapering at base, and furnished 

 with two, long, linear-setaceous auricles, directed backward; filaments 

 about half as long as divisions — Spring — Damascus to Antioch, Alep- 

 po, and northward. 



22. ERYTIIROSTICTUS, Schlecht. Erytiihostictds. 



Perigonium destitute of tube, G-parted, divisions clawed, the limb' 

 with 1-2 nectariferous points at the insertion of filament. Stamens G, 

 inserted at base of limb. Anthers extrorse, versatile. Ovary 3-cellecl, 

 ovules crowded one above another in cells. Styles 3, free, stigmatose 

 at tip. Capsule oblong, septicidally 3-valved; seeds globular, puncti- 

 culate — Cormous, low herbs, the leaves forming an involucre for the 

 crowded, corymbed flowers. 



E. Pal8e§tiiiu$, Boiss. 1(. .05 to .1; bulb ovate, with brown tu- 

 nics, produced along the long subterranean neck; stem short. Leaves 

 rosetted, longer than corymb, the lowermost usually a pair, lanceolate, 

 tapering, the others oblong-ianceolate, less tapering. Pedicels short; 

 perigonium lilac, limb somewhat longer than claw, oblong-lancfeolate, 

 obtuse, pellucid-dotted ; fihiments half as long as limbs ; anthers oblong 

 — April — Jerusalem ? Around Dead Sea and Jordan Valley. 



Order CXIII. JUj^'CACE^E, Bartl. (Rush Family). 



Grass-like or sedge-UJce herbs, with small flowers, a 

 regular and hyi:)ogynous lyersistent perigonmiin of six, shni- 

 lar, glumaceous divisions, loitli ^-celled anthers flxedly their 

 Ijase, a single, short style, and o, filiform, hairy stigmas, 

 and an ovary either Z-celled, or 1-celled loith 3 ])arietcd 

 2)lacentcB, forming a lociolicidal, 'd-valved ])od — Ovary ses- 

 gi1e, free : ^("(^^^ ariatropous, with a nearly cylindrical, minute 

 euibryu, enclosed in the base of the albumen. 



JUNCUS, L. Hush. 6<-iumar. BarcU. 



Divisions of perigonium equal or unequal, connate at base. Sta- 

 mens inserted at base of divisions. Ovules numerous, placentae' at 

 angles of cells. Capsule 3-celled, or by retraction of septa 1-celled, 

 with parietal placentae, and loculicidally three-valved. Seeds numerous, 

 nearly horizontal, with the testa sometimes saccate-relaxed — Perennial 

 or annual herbs, with simple, leafless or leafy stems, the leaves terete, 

 sheathing at base, hollow or grooved or flat, sometimes liorizoutally 

 septate. 



■"^ Perennials. 



t Stems without nodes^ nciked, exce][)t at la&e oj injloresceitce, aheatlwd at 

 'base, some fertile^ others sterile, leaf-like. Seeds not caudate. 



1. J. cfTu^us, L. 1|! 1 or more; root-stock horizontal; stems te- 

 rete, smooth when fresh, striate when dry, ^rltli continuous. Infloi-escence 

 pseudo-lateral, onuclilranclied, spreading ; divisiousof perigonium c*;f/'«w)- 

 acute, nearly equal; stamens i!/2?"c<?; capsule (?5(?r«^ 



