ENGELMANN—NORTH AM. SPECIES OF JUNCUS. 449 
_— paniculam parvam contractam sequante seu raro su- 
sepalis equi eee oe lanceolatis, exterioribus apice 
Sihaletts: interioribus latioribus mucronatis stamina 6 plus 
ra eris filamen 
On the banks of Fox river, near vere tape in "Northe 
Illinois, “a few years ago, in an open wood, now plo wid 
over,” Dr. George Vasey, who pai ood deal of attention 
to this genus and to the botany of his neighborhood generally, 
and for whom this species is na : t askatchawan, 
Bourgeau; in the Rocky Mountains, Dru ; and, mixed 
with J tenuis, in Colorado, F. The wiry ) 
13 to 2 or 2 t » are covered at t 
sheaths, innermost of ry slender terete 
enti h 
i = erp chan relled leaves, the lighter colored 
mee dom 
. J. GREEND, Oakes & Tuckerm. Sillim. Journ. 45 (1843), 
p. aT: Steud. Glum. 2, 305; Gray Man. ed. 2, 483; caspitosus ; 
caulibus (pedalibus sesquipedalibus) rigidis strictis striatis basi 
rare ultimos secundifloram lerumque longe superante ; 
ph aie us paulo brevior ibs cuspidatis stamina 6 duplo 
superantibus ; antheris filamenta equantibus; capsula ovato- 
blonga retusa es sai bas ores fusca), geal 
inibus obovatis candela latis bre 
On the coast of Massachusetts me Ithode aut eo Long 
Island?) end on the Sac e foot of the White 
a nd pa : 
