ENGELMANN—NORTH AM. SPECIES OF JUNCUS. 493 
bus binis ternis — ria aa stamina fere duplo su- 
perantibus ; antheri ongis filamento bis brevioribus; stylo 
revissimo cum stigmatibas ho an incluso ; capsula caly- 
cem i vel vix excedente obtusa brevissime mucro- 
Vi; orus : planta minima (}—1-pollicaris) ; floribus 
bracteis 2 suffultis singulis plerumque 2-meribus (sep alis 4, 
staminibus stigmatibus carpellisque binis).— J. hire eros} 
Californi ia, from the coast to the mountains; var. a. Yose- 
— be alt. 4,000 feet, Bolander, Hb. n. 30; fl. July; 
iah, Mendocino county, the same, Hb. n 
ort t” 
the same, Hb. n. 32; f. April an 
A curious and suggestive little plant, which must consider- 
ably undermine our confidence in certain characters, con- 
sidered of specific value, already shaken by the variations of 
ber of their parts, and, if my view is correct, even the propor- 
tion of stamens and styles, are not sufficient to establish spe- 
i The 
va 8, aa Ww d 
as the type of a distinct subgenus, Juncellus, allied aidaes 
i ostkovi: istingui 
a cell am now convinced that it must be ge with 
its ‘European ally near 2/. marginatus in the section Grami- 
nei, the dimerous a constituting an sronnaly not other- 
wise observed in this genus, but again found among the 
allied Restiacee eas Eriocaulonee, where dimerism. and 
