IGO 105. Jimcus. 12. JUNCE/E. PI end. ph. 



II. 105. JUNCUS. Pliny. Jimk. 



Perigotnum 6»parted, glumaceous, persisting ; hracieola 

 2 or 3-leaved; stamens 3 or 6; stigmata S; capsules 3-celled, 

 3-valved; dissepiments median ; ^eerf^ on the dissepiments. 

 — Pla?its cespitose; roots fibrous or creeping, annual or 

 perennial, in tufts ; cuhn simple and leafless, or branched 

 and leafy ; sheathing at bottom ; leaves none except the 

 barren culms; or few, roundish, channelled, knotty, jointed, 

 or smooth ; flower terminal or lateral, in a panicle or co- 

 rymbus ; lowest peduncle longest ; hractecB membranaceous, 

 pungent or leaflike. 



a. Culm Jiakcd. 



1. Juncus acuius. ' Pointed junk. 

 Culm naked, pungent ; payncle lateral ; hractece spinous ; 



capsules mucronate, roundish, double the length of the 

 perigonium. 



Juncus acutus capitulis sorghi, Rail Syn. 431, I. 

 Juncus maiitimus capi(ulis sorghi, Park, 1192. 

 Juncus acutus, Lin. S. P. 4G3. 

 Juncus maiitimus, Lamarck Enc. Meth. 3,253. 

 Great sharp searush. 



Sandy shores of the sea ; perennial ; July. 



Root fibrous ; stem 3 feet high, stiff, pointed ; barren 

 stems shortest ; panicle branched, many-flowered ; hractecB 

 membranaceous, dilated at bottom, pricking at iOY>i flowers 

 clustered ; sepales ovate, blunt ; capsule ovate, broad, round- 

 ish, 3-seeded, mucronate, shining ; caruncle long, at the end 

 of the seed. 



2. Juncus maritimus. Sea junk. 

 Culm naked, pungent; panicle lateral, subproliferous ; 



bractecB spinous ; capsule oblong, acute, as long as the pe- 

 rigonium. 



Juncus acutus maritimus Anglicus, Park. 1194 ; Rail Syn, 431,2, 



Juncus acutus fo, Lin. S. P. 463. 



Juncus acutus, Lamarck Encyc. Meth. 3,253. 



Juncus maritimus, Smith Fl. Brit. 375. 



Lesser sharp sea rush. 



Sea-shores ; perennial ; August. 



Poot fibrous ; stem 2 feet high, glaucous ; sheaths brown, 

 polished ; panicle doubly branched, slightly proliferous ; 

 bractecE membranaceous at bottom, awlshape at the tip, 

 spinous ; sepcdes lanceolate, acute, jagged at the tip ; capsule 

 linear, oblong; caruncle long, at each end of the seed. 



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