ENGELMANN—NORTH AM. SPECIES OF JUNCUS. 439 
His specimens were collected in April in full bloom; the 
stem is nearly four feet high, the panicle six inches Ton ng; 
he tely i ith Euro 
the La 
Gaudichaud brou aht it from the same region r- 
pus, Nees, from the Cape of Good Hope’ is the same yabnrst 
. Remerianvs, Scheele, Linnza, 22, 348; Walp. Ann. 
3, 655: rhizomate longe repente; foliis caules (2-3 pedales) 
robustos rigidos teretes zequantibus; spatha paniculam supra- 
decompositam atulo-effusam longe superante; glomerulis 
3—5-floris; sepalis ne ene olatis 5-nerviis exterioribus 
u 
vata o 
tumidis triloculari ; seminibus late obovatis obtusis vix apicu- 
mee tenuissime (sub lente) costato lineolatis (J. maritimus, 
uct. 
wala const of the United States from New Jersey to 
Florida exas.—Closely allied to the European J. mari- 
timus, es which it has always been taken, until Scheele, 
with i 
slighter cross lines.—J. maritimus bears a rigid, fastigiate 
_pepehas persistent anthers, an ovary attenuated into a style 
of nearly its own length, a greenish, acute capsule which 
snidalby exceeds the sepals, placente of ordinary size, and 
seeds with distinct tails and stronger ribs. 
The light, brownish flowers are 1.5 lines, and the seeds 0.3 
line, long, and nearly 0.2 line thic 
s is the only Juncus in which occasionally unisexual 
specimens occur (Georgia, Le ede in Hb. Acad. Philad., 
and Florida, Chapman, in Hb. A. Gray); eee heats. pistil 
