"^""'^"'- JUNCACEvE. 203 



c.InL'^.S'J^r^ ^'"''^r^ ' '' ' ^'"^^ ^""- ^'^''^'^ «-^^«^'l'"".^ tl.e broad obtuse 



A^r. SubsessUis. Spikes solitary or few, nearly sessile, loose- perianth-se- 

 ments lax au.l s.-anous : otherwise as the last variety " ^ ° 



l.c■y^■^S^ In." wn'^U V'"''T'' ''''''V^"'^ ^^^•^^' ^^^^^^S a somewhat pyra.ni.lal 



£=:?~^ 



segn,.„ts 1 l„ 1 J lines long, „a„„ J.^k brown. - Jloycr, 1. ,. 4(17 ; Iteici.e' ,b. 1 c!, 



2. JUNCUS, Linn. BoG-r!usH. 

 Stamens G, or sometimes 3 by suppression of the inner ones. Capsule globose to 

 pyramnlal, many-seede.l, S^valved, 3-celIed with central plaeentic or 1-celled witli 

 parietal plawMitio. — Perennial or sometimes annual, in water or moist places, gla- 

 brous, with simple terete often pithy stems, leafy or leafless; leaves terete, channelled, 

 or llat, sometimes e.piitant, in some species knotted ; ilowers solitary or clustere.l, in 

 cymes, panicles, or heads. — Engelm. in Trans. St. Louis Acad. ii. 42-1. 



Ovt^SS^snecies'^rVNorPht'' '"""^ ' t,''"'" '''^';'>' ^>'«tributo,l and a few almost cosmopolitnn. 

 nhces bu are of TmiP n<,^f T7''"^^ ^'''^ T f'-^"l"''"t'y ab""<la.it, forming bogs in marsl.y 

 places, but are of little use and furnish poor and innutritions fodder. 



* Perennials, with naked terete stems : leaves terete or none : panicle lateral, sessile. 

 Flowers clustered: inner sheaths leaf- bearing : stem and leaves stout 

 and i)ungont. 

 Inner perianth-segments obovate, emarginate, a line lone • capsule 



subglobose, obtuse. " ' j I nonusTUS 



begments lanceolate, acute, .3 lines long : capsule ovate, obtuse. 2.' }.' Cooi'Eki " 



Flowers solitary : sheaths leafless (except in n. 5 and n. 10): less lic^id ^""' *•''•• 



and mostly more slender. " 



Flowers large, in compound panicles : capsule oblong-ovate. 



Often stout : panicle lax and spreading : flowers 3 lines long : cap- 

 sule acute, not beaked. ,3 T I KSF.l'Rtl 

 Flowers smaller : capsule angle<l, mncronate or beaked. 4' j' IUiticu.s' 

 Low and very slender : panicle loose, few-flowered : sheaths fre- 



((uently leaf-bnaring. r, j comit.e^us 



Stem stouter, somewhat flattened : panicle .small and dense. 6. J. Bufweri 



1- lowers .smaller, in compound panicles : capsule obovate or subMo- 

 bose. ° 



reiianth a lino long: stamens 3 : capsule clavnte-obovato, obtuse 

 p . "'•••'■t"«c. 7 J KKFUsrs. 



1 eriantli longer, more spreading : stamens 6 : capsule subglobose, 



obtuse, aj)iciilate. g j p^^tf.ns 



Flowers few (1 to 3): low and alpine : cnjiside oblong. 



Inner sheaths bristle-tipjied : capsule irtusi!. 0. J. DiurMMoxmi. 



Inner sheaths leaf- bearing: capsule acute. 10. .F. Parkvi. 



