810 JUNCACE^, (RUSli FAMILY.) 



HI. §ol>olifei*a, C. A. M. If Corm minute, at the tip of a hori- 

 zontal, cylindrical, thickisli sprout. Leaves 3, as long as flowers, 

 linear, at length elongated. Flowers 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. Erythkostictds. 



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 Scelled, 

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

 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. Palae§tinus, Boiss. If .05 to .1; bulb ovate, with brown tu- 

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

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

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

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

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

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



Order CXIIL JUNCACE^E, Bartl. (Rush Family). 



Grass-like or sedge-like herhs, with small flowers^ « 

 regular and liyjpogynous persistent j^erigonium of six, simi- 

 lar^ gluniaceous divisions, luith 2-Gelled anthers jixedhy their 

 hase, a single, short style, and 3, filiforiii, hairy stigmas, 

 and an ovary either Z-celled, or \-celled loith 3 ixtrietal 

 placentce, forming a loGulicidal^ Z-valved j[)od — Ovarv ses- 

 sile, free : poorls aiiatropons, with a nearly cylindrical, minute 

 eiubiyu, cuciused in the base of the albumen. 



JUNCUS, L. Rush. Saumar. Bardi. 



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 horizontally 

 septate. 



* Perennials. 



t Stems without nodes^ naled^ except at lase of inflorescence, sheatlied at 

 lase, some fertile, others sterile, leaf-lil:e. Seeds not caudate. 



1. J. cfTtii^us, L. % 1 or more; root-stock horizontal; stems te- 

 rete, smooth when fresh, striate when dry, pith continuous. Inflorescence 

 pseudo-lateral, omich branched, spreading ; divisions of perigonium straw- 

 colored, lanceolate, acute, nearly equal ; stamens three ; capsule obovate, 



