480 JUNCACE.E. (RUSH FAMILY.) 



straw-color, about the length of the minutely pointed brown pod. (L. melancv 

 carpa, Desv.) Mountains, Maine, W. Massachusetts, N. New York, and north 

 ward. July. Stems 1- 3 high, scattered. (Eu.) 



* * Floii'irs croicdid in spikes or close clusters. (Plants (j 1 -12' high.) 



3. Li. caillpcstl'is, DC. Leaves flat, linear ; spikes 4 - 12, somewhat urn- 

 belled, ovoid, straw-color, some of them long-peduncled, others nearly sessile ; 

 sepals bristle-pointed, longer than the obtuse pods ; seeds with a conical appen- 

 dage at the base. Dry fields and woods ; common. May. (Eu.) 



4. L. arciiata, Meyer. Leaves channelled, linear ; spikes 3 - 5, on unequal 

 often recurved peduncles, ovoid, chestnut-brown ; bracts ciliate-fringed ; sepals 

 taper-pointed, longer than the obtuse pod; seeds not appendaged. Alpine 

 summits of the White Mountains, New Hampshire, and high northward. (Eu.) 



5. L. spicata, Desvaux. Leaves channelled, narrowly linear ; flowers in 

 sessile clusters, forming a nodding interrupted spiked panicle, brown; sepals bristle- 

 pointed, scarcely as long as the abruptly short-pointed pod ; seeds merely with 

 a roundish projection at the base. (Our plant is L. racemosa, Desv. ? according 

 to Gfodet.) With the last, and more common. (Eu.) 



3. JIJWCUS, L. RUSH. Boo-Rusu. 



Perianth glumaceous. Stamens 6, or sometimes 3. Stigmas 3. Pod 3- 

 celled (often imperfectly so at maturity), loculicidal, many-seeded. Chiefly 

 perennials, with pithy stems, and cymose, panicled, or clustered small (greenish 

 or brownish) flowers, usually produced all summer. ' (The classical name, from 

 jungo, to join, alluding to their use for bands.) 



* Scapes naked and simple from matted running roolstocks, many of them barren, 

 furnished with short leajless sheaths at the base : flowers in a sessile cymose panicle 

 produced from the side of the scape above the middle, 6-androus (except in No. 1) : 

 seeds not appendaged. 



1. J. effusus, L. (COMMON or SOFT RUSH.) Scape soft, and pliant 

 (2 -4 high), finely striated; panicle diffusely much-branched (sometimes closely 

 crowded), many-flowered; sepals green, lanceolate, very acute, as long as the 

 obovate very obtuse and pointless pod; stamens 3 or 6. Marshy ground; 

 everywhere. (Eu.) 



2. J. Jilif 01 Illis, L. Scape slender (l-2 high), pliant; panicle few- 

 flowered, simple; sepals green, lanceolate, acute, rather longer than the very 

 obtuse but short-pointed pod. (J. setaceus, Torr. Fl.) Wet banks and shores, 

 N. New England to Michigan, and northward. (Eu.) 



3. J. BalticilS, Willd. Scape rigid (2 -4 high), from a very strong 

 rootstock; panicle ascending, loose, dark chestnut-colored ; sepals ovate-lanceolate, 

 the 3 outer sharp-pointed, as long as the elliptical rather triangular pod. Sandy 

 shores of New England and of the Great Lakes; thence northward (Eu.) 



* * Scapes, $*c. as in the preceding, but some of the shc.at.fm at /he base leaf-bearing ; 

 the t&u't-s tci-Ui:, kiiotkss, like the continuation of tin- satpc ahurc tin. panicL : sta- 

 mens 6. 



