JUNCACEAE (RUSH FAMILY) 75 



sharp-pointed, spreading sepals, a single pistil with style very short, 

 and six stamens -with anthers much shorter than their filaments. 

 Later, each six-pointed perianth forms a cup to hold the tawny, 

 ovoid, papery-shelled capsule, filled with small brown seeds which, 

 under the lens, are shown to be delicately ridged and cross-lined. 



Means of control 



In lawns and yards the weed is best removed 

 by hand-pulling before seed development. In fields, 

 small areas may be treated by hoe-cutting, but 

 where rankly infested the' ground should be cleansed 

 by a rotation of cultivated crops and clover. 



COMMON RUSH 

 Jtincus effusus, L. and its varieties 



Other English names : Soft Rush, Bog Rush. 

 Native. Perennial. Propagates by seeds and by 



rootstocks. 



Time of bloom: June to July. 

 Seed-time: July to August. 

 Range: Throughout North America. 

 Habitat : Marshes, wet meadows, and pastures ; muck 



farms. In the South, a pest in rice fields. 



In any place where the soil is constantly moist 

 some variety of this rush is likely to be found, and 

 it holds its ground most sturdily. It grows in 

 dense tufts or tussocks from stout branching root- 

 stocks, the leafless stems one to three feet tall, 

 erect but very soft and pliant, round, green, pithy, 

 and about a twelfth of an inch in diameter. Flowers 

 very numerous in dense, spreading cymose clusters 

 which seem to burst from the sides of the stems, 

 the long subtending bracts appearing like continued 

 stems; each individual flower has also just below FIG. 40. 



it a small, ovate, pointed bract; perianth six- SSX*??. ? 



* . Soft Rush (/un- 



pointed, green at first, but soon turning brown ; p^ e ff usu s, var. 

 stamens three, with anthers and filaments about Pylaef). x j. 



