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7. J. DOMBEYANUS J. Gay. ( J. pallescen s Lam. p. p.) 

 Stout; 45 cm. high. Culm and leaves compressed-terete, nodulose. 

 Panicle compound, rather dense; heads many, 8-ioflowered, globose; 

 flowers large, tepals castaneous, lanceolate, acute, exceeding the oblong, 

 mucronulate, black, shining capsule; stamens 6. 

 (Peru) ; S. Patagon. 



8. J. FILIFORMIS Linn. 



Culm slender, filiform, valleculate. Sheaths radical, leafless. Inflores- 

 cence scarcely compound, 5-y-flowered. Lower bract basilar. Upper 

 generally mucroniferous. Fruit spherical-ovate, obtuse, 3-septate. Seeds 

 tailless. 



(Arctic-alpine of Eurasia-America, N. Zeal.) Patagonia, by R. Sta. 

 Cruz. 



9. J. GRAMINIFOLIUS E. Mey. 



Small, glaucous with branching, leafy culm. Leaves striate, nerveless, 

 the upper exceeding the decompound inflorescence. Tepals equal, lance- 

 acuminate, shorter than the trigonal-elliptical, mucronate, i-locularo*/s#/<?. 

 Stamens 6. 



(Chili) ; Chonos Archipel. 



IO. J. LESEURII Bol. 



Rootstock matted. Stems leafless and scape-like, sheathed at base. 

 Panicles sessile, seemingly lateral, large; scape soft or hollow; spathe 

 exceeding the panicle. Flowers somewhat secund. Tepals 5-6 mm., 

 lanceolate-acuminate, brown-margined. Stamens 6, anthers exceeding 

 the filaments. Capsule brown, oblong-ovate, acute, not beaked, nor ex- 

 ceeding the tepals. Seeds rather smooth, ovate, obtuse. 



(California) ; W. Patagon.; in marshes by Carren-leofu. 



n. J. MARITIMUS Lam. Lesser Sharp Sea-rush. 



Culms naked with basal sheaths. Leaves terete, not septate, 45-60 cm., 

 shorter than the culms. Thyrse decompound, erect, with many flowers 

 in the dichotomies of the rays. Tepals equal, lanceolate, acute, as long 

 as the elliptical, mucronate capsule. Stamens 6. Testa of seed sacculate 

 at both ends. 



(Cosmopol., Fig. in Brit. & Br. i, 384) ; Patagon. (Hatcher), the tepals 

 acuminate, not mucronate, and castaneous in the center. 



