64 FLORA OF TASMANIA. [Juncee. 
trigonous, three- (rarely one-) celled, with many axile ovules, a short style, and three long stigmas. Capsule small, 
brown, polished, three-angled, with many pale seeds with a membranous testa. (Name from jungo, to join; the 
leaves having been woven into cordage.) 
$ 1. Culms leafy at the base. Leaves all radical, or nearly so, quite flat, or with involute margins. 
1. Juncus planifolius (Br. Prodr. 259); annuus, radice fibrosa, culmo nudo, foliis omnibus radi- 
calibus numerosis planis, inflorescentia terminali dense capitata v. floribus glomeratis, glomerulis cymoso- 
paniculatis, staminibus 3, capsulis prismaticis mucronatis perianthio brevioribus longioribusve, seminibus 
striolatis ovoideis, testa levi.—Fl. N. Zeal. i. 263; Fl. Antarct. 358, and Suppl. 545. (Gunn, 910, 1441.) 
Variat insigniter inflorescentia et statura. 
Has. Abundant in pastures, etc., throughout the Island.—(Fl. Oct.—Dec.) (v. v.) 
DrsrarB. Throughout extratropical Australia, New Zealand, Lord Auckland's Island, and South Chili. 
Very variable in size and in the inflorescence, of which the flowers form sometimes a dense solitary capitulum, 
or are collected in glomeruli on a dichotomously-branched panicle. The numerous soft, broad, flat, radical leaves, 
annual fibrous root, naked, simple eulm, and three stamens, abundantly distinguish the species. 
2. Juncus cespititius (E. Meyer, in Plant. Preiss. ii. 47, and Linnea, xxvi. 244) ; annuus, radice 
fibrosa, foliis omnibus radicalibus angustis planis marginibus involutis, scapo gracili, floribus glomerulatis, 
glomerulis 1-5 lateralibus pedunculatis v. omnibus cymosis, perianthii foliolis exterioribus acuminatis cap- 
sulam ellipticam acutam subeeguantibus, staminibus 6. (Guan, 971.) 
Has. Northern parts of the Island: Circular Head, Gunn.—(Fl. Dec.) 
DisrRiB. Victoria and Swan River. 
Very similar indeed to small states of planifolius, of which it may prove a variety, but the leaves are narrower, 
and have involute margins, and the stamens are six in number. 
. 9. Juncus falcatus (E. Meyer, in Reliq. Henk. i. 144; Linnea, xxvi. 245); rhizomate repente 
perennante, culmis basi foliatis medio unifoliatis v. aphyllis, foliis rigidis anguste linearibus planis v. mar- 
ginibus involutis, capitulis solitariis terminalibus globosis, perianthii foliolis acutis capsulam late obovatam 
obtusam eguantibus, staminibus 6, seminibus lineari-oblongis, testa striata utrinque breviter producta. 
(Gunn, 339.) 
Has. Wet places in the mountains, as at Arthur's Lakes, Lake St. Clair, etc., Gunn, Archer.—(Fl. 
Jan., Feb.) 
Distriz. Alps of Victoria, Mueller; Unalashka and California (fid. E. Meyer). 
Â most distinct species, a span to a foot high, at once distinguished from its flat-leaved congeners by its creep- 
ing perennial rhizomes, solitary capitula of rather large flowers, large, obovate, blunt, black-brown capsule, striate 
seeds, with the testa produced beyond either end, and six stamens. 
4. Juncus bufonius (Linn. Sp. Pl. 466); annuus, humilis, radice fibrosa, culmis numerosissimis 
foliosis, foliis radicalibus et caulinis lineari-setaceis marginibus involutis v. antice sulcatis, cyma terminali 
laxe dichotome ramosa, ramis tenuibus gracilibus, floribus 1-3-aggregatis majusculis pallidis, perianthii 
foliolis acutissimis capsulam lineari-prismaticam acutam superantibus, staminibus 6, seminibus ovato-glo- 
bosis, testa levi pallida nitida.— 77. N. Zeal. i. 264; E Meyer, in Plant. Preiss. ii. 47. Juncus plebejus, 
Br. Prodr. 239. (Gunn, 1495, 583.) 
Has. Abundant in moist places throughout the Colony.—(Fl. all the year.) (v. v.) 
S ” Throughout Europe and Northern Asia, North America, New Zealand, and temperate 
ustralia. 
