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5ST. J. subtilis. 

 Plant X 2/3. Flower x 3. 



588. J. bulbosus. 

 Inflorescence x %. 



Ont. Aug., Sept. — The proliferous plants are usually sterile and much larger, 

 with larger diffuse panicles. Fig. 586. 



26. J. subtilis Mey. Creeping or iioating. capillary, reddish, in water 



becoming 4 or 5 dm. long, with elongate capil- 

 lary leaves, on shore forming rosettes (0.5-2 dm. 

 broad) with a tuft of primary leaves (2 or 3 cm. 

 long) and repent branches bearing small fasci- 

 cles of small leaves and axillary or terminal 

 flowers either sessile or short- 

 peduncled ; flowers and capsule 

 much as in preceding, but fila- 

 ments longer. (J", pelocarpus, 

 var. Engelm.) — Margins and 

 shores of ponds and streams, 



Nfd., Que., and Me. Aug.. Sept. Fig. 587. 



27. J. bulbosus L. Similar, but with hardened bulbous 

 bases, coarser habit, several-flowered glomerules, sharper sepals 

 and petals, and blunt capsule. — ^Margins and shores of ponds, 

 streams or pools (generally floating). — Lab., Nfd., and N. S. 

 (Eu., n. Afr., Pacific I.) Fig. 588. 



28. J. militaris Bigel. Stem stout (3.5-9 dm. high), from 

 a thick creeping rootstock, bearing a solitary stout erect leaf 

 (3-7 dm. long) below the middle, which overtops the crowded 

 and rather contracted cyme ; heads numerous. 5-12(rarely 25)- 

 flowered ; flowers brownish (3 mm. long) ; sepals and petals 



lanceolate, the sepals awl-pointed, as long as the nar- 

 rowly-ovoid triangular taper-beaked 1-celled capsule ; 

 anthers longer than the filaments ; ovary attenuate 

 into a slender style ; 

 seeds (0.6 mm. long) 

 globose-obovoid. ob- 

 tuse, abruptly pointed. 

 — Margins of ponds 

 and streams. N. S. to 

 n. N. Y. and Ala. — 

 Sometimes producing, 

 in deep water, num- 

 berless long capillary 

 submersed leaves from 

 the rootstock. Fig. 

 589. 



29. J. polycephalus 

 Michx. Stout (0.5-1.2 m. high), from a stout 

 horizontal rootstock ; leaves laterally flattened 

 (3-9 mm. wide) ; cyme large (1-3 dm. long), 

 spreading, bearing many distant heads (nearly 

 1 cm. in'diameter); flowers 3.5 mm. long; the subulate sepals longer than the 

 similar petals ; anthers about as long as the filaments. {J. 

 scirpoides, var. Engelm). — Swamps, s. Ya. to Fla. and Tex. 

 Fig. 590. 



30. J. nodbsus L. Stem erect (1.5-6 dm. high), slender, 

 from a creeping thread-like and tuber-bearing rootstock, 

 mostly with 2 or 3 slender leaves ; heads few or several, rarely 

 single, 8-20-flowered (7-11 mm. in diameter), overtopped by 

 the" involucral leaf; sepals nearly as long as the slender 

 triangular taper-pcliited 1-celled capsule ; anthers oblong, 

 shorter than the filaments ; style very short ; seeds (0.5 mm. 

 long) obovoid, abruptly mucronate. — Swamps and gravelly 

 banks, e. Que. to Sask., s. to Va., 111., and Neb. July, Aug. 591. J. nodosus. 

 Fig. 591. Inflorescence x % 



589. J. militaris. 

 Part of inflorescence X %. 

 Seed X IS. 



590. J. polycephalus. 

 Part of inflorescence x %. 

 Seed X 30. 



