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OED. XCYI. RESTIACILaS. 



OED. XCVIL JUNCACE^. 



JUNCUS. RUSH, 

 a. Without leaves. Tlw barren stems resembling leaves. 



1. J. effusus (soft Rusk.) In marshy ground, common. The 

 creeping rootstock throws up thick tufts of leafless stems from 2 

 to 4 feet high, which are faintly striated and soft, some of which 

 bear a few inches from the top a lateral, loose, and spreading pa- 

 nicle of greenish or brown flowers. J. conglomerate (common 

 Rush), E. B. t. 835, very much resembles this, but bears its flowers 

 in a dense, globose, and compact panicle. Bentham unites them 

 under the name of J. communis. Forde bog. Meadow by the 

 Babbicombe road, opposite the Lower Warberry road, Bovey 

 Heath, etc. (E. B. t. 836.) P. vn. 



2. J. glaucus (hard R.) In wet pastures and by roadsides. 

 Very near the last in appearance, but much shorter, harder, and 

 stifler, having the pith interrupted while in the two others the pith 

 is continuous ; panicle loose and much branched ; flowers pale 

 brown ; fruit black. Fields about Cockington. Barton. Forde 

 bog, etc. Common. (E. B. t. 665.) P. vn. 



3. J. maritimus (lesser sharp Sea-R.) In sandy marshes. 

 Stems in tufts, from 1 to 3 feet high, sharp-pointed, as are also 

 the sheathing scales at their base ; panicle long and loose, con- 

 sisting of numerous flowers in little distinct clusters. Paignton 

 Marsh. Starcross. Marshes at Kingsteignton. (E. B. t. 1725.) 



P. VJI. VIII. 



4. J. acutus (great sharp Sea-R.) On sandy seashores. 

 Very much taller and stouter than the last, as well as more rigid 

 and prickly ; stems from 3 to 6 feet high. Panicle dense and 

 compact ; flowers brown ; fruit-capsules very large, protruded, 

 of a rich glossy brown. Groodrington marshes. (E. B. t. 1614.) 



P. VII. VIII. 



b. Stems leafy. 



5. J. acutifiorus (sharp-flowered jointed R.) In boggy 

 places. Stem from 18 inches to 2 feet high ; leaves 3 or 4, slightly 

 compressed, and having a jointed appearance. Flowers from 3 

 or 4 to 6 in a cluster, greenish-brown, arranged in a compound 

 terminal panicle. Capsule pale brown. Paignton. Groodring- 

 ton. Blagdon. (J. articulatus, E. B. t. 238.) P. vi.-vm. 



