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

 nute glands; leaves longer and narrower. Pine barrens, New Jersey to Vir- 

 ginia and southward. July. 



T. PALUSTRIS, 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. JUNCACE^E. (Rusn 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 I -3-celled ovary, forming a 3-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-celled (sometimes imperfectly so), many -seeded. 



1. NARTHECIUUI, Moehring. BOG-ASPHODEL. 



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

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

 stigma, 3-celled, 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 vapdrjKiov, a rod, or box for fragrant ointments ; application uncer- 

 tain.) 



1. N. Amcrfcaniliil, Ker. Pedicels of the dense raceme bearing a 

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



2. 1.IJZTJI.A, DC. WOOD-RUSH. 



Perianth glumaceous. Stamens 6. Stigmas 3. Pod l-celled, 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 hny-peduncled, umbelled or corymbed. 



1. Li. pilosa, Wiild. Leaves lance-linear, hairy ; peduncles innMlcd, si'/n- 

 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 Ij. par vi flora, Dcsv., var. melasaocierpa. Nearly smooth ; 

 leaves broadly linear ; corymb decompound, loose ; pfdiceh droo^i^/j ,- sepals pointed, 



