JiiHciis. J UNCAGED. 207 



antli : seeds ovate, obtuse, very finely striate and cross-lined. — Keichcnb. Icon. Fl. 

 Genu, ix, t. 395 ; Engeliu. 1. c. 451. 



A foinmoii spocips, foiiiul in nearly all countries, very variable in size ; fioni On-gon to Lower 

 California, on Iwth sides of the Sierra Nevada. 



12. J. triformis, Kn.m'ini. 1. c 4'J2. .Stem almost none, bearing several erect 

 liliibrm scape-like peduncles 2 to 4 inches high : leaves an inch long or less, liliform, 

 channelled. Hat above: flowers usually .'5 to 7 in a small lieail : perianth brownish, 

 1 to U lines long; .segments narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, nearly ciiual, a little 

 exceeding the 3 stamens and the ovate obtuse apiculate capsule : style ex.serted, with 

 elongated stigmas : seeds ovate, obtuse, iaiiitly lew-ribbed and cross lined. 



Var. brachystylus, Kngelm. 1. c. Smaller (1 or 2 inches high), the peduncles 

 1-3-llowered : stamens half the length of the perianth, the oblong anthers shorter 

 than the lilament : style and stigmas short, included. 



Var. uniilorus, Engelm. 1. c. Very small (a half to an inch bigh), the solitary 

 flowers mostly dimerous. — J. saginoides, Engelm. 1. c. 43G. 



In tlie nionntains from Yoseniite Valley and Mendocino County to Oregon ; Clover Mountains, 

 Nevada, at 9,000 feet aUitiide, ll'olsoii. 



13. J, Kelloggii, Engelm. 1. c. 494. Stem very short and very much branched, 

 forming a small dense sessile globose cluster ^ to h inch broad, with a tew exserted 

 1-2-llowered peduncles: leavt!s G to 10 lines ""long, filiform, channelled above: 

 perianth-segments pale green, mostly scarious, 1 \ lines long, lanceolate, acuminate, 

 exceeding tlie stanjens and thin ca})sule : seeds m"ore strongly ribbed. 



Sandy soil, San Francisco {KcUof/rf); April, in (lower and fruit. 



■*- ■*- Taller perennlah : stems simple : Jlowers hexandvoits;. 

 ++ Stems naked : Jiowers solitari/ hi a diffuse {rarely compaet) pa)iiele. 



14. J. tenuis, Willd. Stems slender, erect, 1 or 2 feet high, leafy at base: 

 leaves very narrow, flat or more or less channelled or involute, shorter than the stem : 

 spatlie exceeding the inflorescence : panicle usually loose and spreading : perianth- 

 segments i)ale, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, U to 2 lines long, spreading in fruit 

 and ecpialling or usually exceeding the ovate retuse greenish capsule : seeds white- 

 api)cndaged at each end, very finely ribbed and cross lined. — Keichenb. 1. c, t. 398. 



Var. congestus, Engelm. 1. c. 450. Panicle contracted and somewhat capitate, 

 3 to 9 lines broad : perianth and capsule darker. 



A very conunon species in tlie Atlantic States, ranging across the continent and to Me.\ico and 

 the West Indies, and also foinid in western Kumpe. On the Pacific Coast it is fouml from Oregon 

 to Soulhcrn California (Santa Inez Mountains, ^fr.1. Klimod Cnoprr), though the variety, winch 

 is peculiar, is perhai)3 the more conimoii form, at least near the coast. 



++ ++ Stems more or less leaf//; the leaves fat and (jrass-like {not equitant) : 

 Jiowers clustered. 



15. J. falcatUS, Meyer. Stems low, rarely a foot high, from .slender stolonifer- 

 ous rootstocks : leaves usually eipudling or exceeding the stems, 1 to 1 .^ lines wide, 

 the open somewhat oblirpie sheaths without ligules : heads mostly solitary, some- 

 times 2 or 3 : spathe short : perianth-segments dark brown or with a green midvein, 

 2^ to 3 lines long, ovate, the outer shortly acuminate, the intier obtuse, roughish : 

 capsule oblong, refuse, apiculate, C(jualling the jierianth : seeils oblong-ovate, obtuse, 

 a third of a lino long, with loose pale testa longitudinally reticulate. — Engelm. 1. c. 

 452 and 495. ,/. Mmziesii, K. T.r. in Hook. Fl. I'.or.-Am. ii. 192. 



Var. paniculatUS, Eng(dm. I. c. 495. Heads smaller (about 5-llowered), in a 

 simple or somewhat compound panicle. 



In drift sand on Lone Mountain, nt^ar San Francisco, and northward in the Coast RnngC3 to 

 Oregon and Unalaschka ; the variety in spliagnons swamps m-ar Mendocino City, IMoiidcr. In 

 Ontral Oregon a taller slender form oci'iirs, 1 or 2 feet high, with a loose panicle 3 to 5 inches 

 long, IFood. 



