•^ '"""'' JUiNCACE^. «..^ 



n.ore spreading panicle, ihorter spat ,es and brae a t n.uhr n,i .' ''"''' '"^ ' ■^''T'^'^'" ""^ 

 inore distinctly eandate seeds. The tough sSesare if w 1 1 " T ^i '"'r''' f"^ "'"'''"y 

 together tlieir baskets. ^ ^ i*"*^ '^^ ^''*^ Indians and used in binding 



l..nLT\^°°^®";i^""'^"'- A similar species: outer perianth-sefr.nents subulate 



■i- -i- Flowers soldainj, hoxandrom {triandrous m n. 7): 5m;>es 5^';;r/^r • ^h^ntl 

 «• i^/<.,«™ ;„ compo,md panicles, large (3 ;«« fo„^ „, ,„„,,): „y„„,, ^j,,,,^. 



ovate. 



finul. f fp- ' '^°",^ ''''I""" ^^•'^"••ie: panicle lax ami spreading manv- 



loweml, the floux-rs somcM'hat secand on the branches : perianth-stme t^'oi J" 3 

 mes long, lanceolate, acuminate, with brown margins, the inner on'sf I ttTo^hoiter 



au.te, not beaked, equalling or a little shorter than the perianth : seeds ovate "oUuse 

 scarcely ap,culate,sniooth,sh or somewhat reticulate. _ Proc. Calif. Aca'ii 79 



iiaa xxMii. M>S. ./. Balticus, var. Paajicns, Engelm. 1. c 442 



4. J Balticus, Dethanl. Distinguish..! from the last by its rather more ri-nd 

 •scapes (usually 1 or 2 feet high), smaller flowers (U to 2.1 line lorn ) t ca.S 

 moro acutely angled (in our forms) and mucronate^or beaked, an 1 tl/j s ed le 

 distinctly reticulated. -Keichenb. Icon. Fl. Germ. ix. t. 411; Engeln, 1 c. 441 



ih^LeJ'^f'foT^ "f-^ M ^'^'^^^ ^-.^ ■^'^"•'^r forms of J. Balticus, but 

 h^XT ■ n n '' '^'"''^ «o'newhat llattene<l, and the sheaths frequently leaf- 



beaiig .spathe equalling or much excelling the small loosely few-Hou-c ed panicle : 

 capsule shorter Uian the paler perianth. -x\ov. Gen. i. 235; Kunth, Enum. iii. 317 • 



foi , . 



Peckkam. 



tw-t^ls'^V^^"' ranging to New Moxico (Fn„Urr), Arizona (Patn,rr) nm\ Southern Cnli- 

 ^a>n "^ ^ "'"■^' rortTejon(/.V>^/,m-A-); Santa Clara and Buena Ventura valleys. 



G. J. Breweri, l-:ngelm 1. c Scapo stouter, a foot high, from a perpendicular 

 rhizome, .somewhat ila ened and often twisted : spathe many times longer than the 

 small and .lense usually few-fl„w.'re,l panicle : perianth-segments brown, oblong- 



