a 
ENGELMANN—NORTH AM. SPECIES OF JUNCUS. 463 
subulatis acutissimis subequalibus stamina 8 dimida seu tertia 
parte superantibus; antheris filamento plerumque brevioribus ; 
stigmatibus subsessilibus ovario ovato obtuso seu rarius acu- 
tato sub-brevioribus inclus usis; capsula prismatica mucronata 
seu pitas uniloculari sepala equante seu excedente; semini- 
bus atis obovatis seu oblanceolatis utrumque acutis areis 
lincoln reticulatis. 
ar. a. legitimus: caulibus (1-2-pedalibus) erectis gracili- 
oribus ; ‘sats simplici composita vel decomposita patula ; 
onpitalis pluri-seu multi-(5-12-80-50)floris demum e fusco 
stramineis; floribus majoribus; sepalis wqualibus seu raro 
exterioribus ae Jongioribus capsulam prismaticam obtusi- 
usculam mucronatam fere equantibus; antheris oe 
multo peecasentaaies ovario ovato acuto.—J. acuminatus, 
Michx. 1, 192; La Harpe, 136; Elliott, 1, 409? Kunth, 3, 335, 
non Auct. Am. plur.; J. pallescens, E. tes June. "31, non 
Lamarck; J. paradoxus, E. Mey. |. c. 30; La Harpe, ‘141; 
Kunth, 3, "3415 non Auct. Am.; J. gerne Kunth, 3, 340; 
J. debilis, Gray l. c. ex parte; 3 Pondii, Wood Bot. (1861) 
724 
Var. g. debilis: caulibus (spithameis sesquipedalibus) de- 
bilibus erectis seu decumbentibus radican tibusve ; eapitulis 
pauci-(3—6)floris; floribus minoribus pallidis; capsula acuta 
breviter mueronata exserta.— bilis. Gray Man. ed. 2, 481. 
Var. y. di ; 
paniculze ultradecomposite ramis numerosissi b 
e onsen capitulis pauci-( 3-T)floris pals —_ angusti- 
oribus stamina fere duplo superantibus o acu ato; cap- 
sula sap nceolata acuta aye fere eed longiore.—J. 
diffusissimus, are . Tex. 1.6. p: 
s: caulibus elatis (2 peda alibus) erectis 
foliisque Prot as robustis; panicula u Itradecomposi sita pa “ 
la; capitulis pauci-(5—8)flor ris stramineo-foscis; s; floribus minori 
ris filamenta equantibus cae — heocae pe nbeiges mu- 
cronata fusca sepala mee neger ss ex 
All over the States, from iiennshaanta soutrard to the 
Rio Grande, and nbcoitest rd to Missouri; var. ais the most 
common form found in the whole territory ar rs od: 3 Var. 2 
have only seen from New Jersey, C. £. Smith; cea 
Schweinitz, Moser, Porter; Ohio, Lea; Kentucky, Short (the 
original of Gray’s a debilis 8)3 Mississippi, Z. Hilgard, and 
South Carolina, Ravenel, but it is aig more gg “esrtat 
distributed; var. y, northwestern incecu uckley; 
var. 6, a the Mississippi Valley Jinn y Anieiols, Doe, — 
Vasey, to Missouri! and to Louisiana, J. Hale.—All the form 
of this. Baer flower early in the season, according to Tacitete, 
= . to June, and shed their numerous seeds from May 
o Jul 
ainngh the kind liberality of Profs. Roeper of Rostock 
