ENGELMANN—NORTH AM. SPECIES OF JUNCUS. 491 
which share oxx exhibits the ane structure, always marked 
with regular transverse reticu 
Pag. 443. z effusus. Se ies forms are distributed in 
Herb. norm.; the common one from Michigan, 7, and South 
Carolina, 8, and an unusually slender one, 9, from _ Cali- 
fornian mountains, where the common one also grow e 
western botanists find in the saltmarshes near San Fra ancisco 
a brown flowered variety, which may be distinguished as var. 
ie ace) ; inflorescence somewhat looser and fastigiate, Herb. 
. 10, or more 5 ate ib. 11; other Siarencaa. if they ex- 
ist have escape 
J. patens was distributed by Dr. Kellogg in Herb. norm 
n two forms; 12 isa tall plant with loose panicles of oreen 
Pataskel 13 a low (G15 (a in high) rigid form with a more 
compact darker ee inflor scence 
ag. THIL: zs te longe repente ; caulibus 
(14-2-pedalibus) pescsliives Saeatitiee farctis siccis striulatis 
basi vaginis fusco-rufis breviter — instructis; panieule 
laxze vix compo ote auciflore spatha longissima ; ae 
equ uilongis, exterioribus NIE A Goatatin, interioribus obtu- 
sis stamina 6 fere duplo a agin ye ; antheris oblongis fila- 
mentum squantibus; ovario ovato in stylum brevem ‘attenu- 
ato cum stigmatibus eo zquilongis fort incluso; cetera vide 
p> 
Found abundant tly by Messrs. Smith, Porter and ro 
Broadmountain, sal pclae (Herb. norm. 15), where it 
had been discovered by the former the year before ; also i in 
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long, with short and broad appendages and a distinct rhaphe, 
distinctly but som pied irregularly ‘reticulate and partly also 
lineolate; epidermis easily removed after soaking. 
selaceus ; a lar. ect and a smaller form fom ‘South Caro- 
lina have been distributed in Herb. norm. 14 by Mr. Ravenel ; 
Be of the —— rhizom short, stems cespitos 
. 445. JF. arcticus is more closely allied with 7. Balti- 
cus a Smithit than with J. Drummondii; more specimens 
obtained from the coasts of the north Pacific show that the 
var. Sifchensis is not rare there, and extends to Kamschatka; 
its — ny their own we 
“3 Drum i 047 Alps, Bolander, Hb. n 16, 
3. 446. se Pack Tryst 3 with the interior sama ob- 
ee a much shorter tate the exterior ones, which are as 
as the ¢ — ule, was found by Mr. Bolander on alpine 
cciiwn, Califo rnia. 
[April, 1868.] 32 
