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Damp places. May-July. A Mediterranean species found near Toulon, Les 

 Sablettes, Saint Cyr, Porquerolles, and by the river at Ampus. 



***** Annual. Stem hollow. Testa not produced. 



J. cap! tat us Weigel. Capitate Rush. Very small and tufted, 1-4 in. high, 

 usually reddish when dry. Stems setaceous, grooved. Leaves all radical, short, 

 setaceous ; sheaths short. Heads terminal, bracteate, solitary. Perianth 

 segments elliptic-ovate, acuminate, awned, longer than the ovoid mucronate 

 capsule. Stamens 3. 



Sandy places flooded in winter ; sometimes common. May-July. 



J. pygmteus Rich. Very small, 1-5 in. high, tufted, dark pink when dry. 

 Stems slender, terete, simple or once branched. Leaves radical, setaceous, 

 faintly jointed and channelled. Flowers 1-5, subsessile, bracteate. Perianth 

 segments linear-lanceolate, acuminate, not awned, longer than the narrow acute 

 capsule. 



Damp, sandy places in the Var. May-July. Frejus, Le Luc, Les Maures, 

 Toulon, La Seyne, and on the sandy marsh below Hyeres. 



J. bufonius L. Toad Rush. An extremely variable plant, 1-12 in. high, 

 with several named varieties. Usually densely aggregated, from the seedlings 

 growing in masses. Colour pale, though sometimes reddish. Stems slender, 

 septate, upper part of cyme dichotomously branched. Perianth segments 

 lanceolate, much longer than the pale, acute, mucronate capsule. Cyme occupy- 

 ing most of the stem. Bracts small, obtuse, scarious. 



Damp, sandy places, very common. May-July. 



In 1908 the present writer published in " Bull. Herb. Boiss.," 2"" sdrie, 

 Tome VIII, a " Note sur les Juncus bicephalus, Viv. et J. bufonius var. 

 fasciculatus Koch ". It was here stated that the true J. bicephalus Viv. is a 

 variety of J. pygtnceus according to Buchenau's monograph, and proved that 

 the plant described and figured in Coste's " Flore de la France" from Hyeres (Var), 

 Corsica, and Balearic Isles, is not the true bicephalusofViviani but J.pygmeeus 

 var. fasciculatus Koch (1837) = var. congestus Wahl. (1825), and that it has 

 several other synonyms. It is a marked variety 3-6 in. high, erect and with 

 flowers in more or less dense clusters. But to add to the confusion the late 

 M. Albert in the " Cat. des Plantes du Var " (1908) placed the Hyeres plant under 

 J. bicephalus G. G. (non Viv.) and said it differed from the var. fasciculatus 

 G. G. in its erect stem with only 2-4 clusters of flowers. It grows at the Vieux 

 Salins and on the Plage de Giens, south of Hyeres. 



J. bufonius var. minutulus Alb. et Jahandiez. Plant very small, 12 cms., 

 caespitose ; stems shorter than the leaves, bearing at their summit one or rarely 

 two flowers. This is a form of dry places (March-April) and has been found at 

 Bormes and in sandy fields at Bon-Renaud, Porquerolles by M. Jahandiez. 



J. Tenageia L. Plant annual, 3-12 in. high. Stems slender. Leaves 

 narrow-linear, with auricled sheath. Flowers brown, solitary, distant, in a very 

 loose cyme. Bracts very short. Outer perianth segments ovate acute, as long 

 as the very obtuse subglobular capsule. Stamens 6. 



Sandy places and damp fields, uncommon. May-August. Frejus, Le Luc, Les 

 Maures, Collobrieres, Porquerolles, near Antibes, etc. 



LUZULA L. WOOD-RUSH. 

 L. Forsteri DC. Hairy Wood-rush. Closely allied to L. pilosa Willd. 



which does not grow in the Mediterranean region, but more slender, with an 

 acuminate capsule, and seeds with a shorter straight obtuse crest. Leaves linear, 

 sometimes \ in. broad, soft, slightly hairy. Cymes lax, with few branches 

 reflexed in fruit, and sub-solitary fknvers. Perianth-segments acuminate. 

 Shady woods extending to the mountains. March-May. 



L. silyatica Gaud. = L. maxima DC. Great Wood-rush. A taller 

 robust species, 1-2 ft. high. Leaves often half-inch broad with scanty silky hairs, 

 channelled. Cymes large, compound, with branches 3-4 in., spreading in fruit. 



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