500 HISTOIRE DES PLANTES. 
GENERA 
I. JUNCEE. 
À. Ssumeus T. — Flores regulares, hermaphroditi v. nune poly- 
gami; receptaculo parvo sæpius convexo. Sepala 3, oblongo-lanceolata, 
glumacea, margine plus minus scariosa, valvata v. apice imbricata. 
Petala 3, alterna, conformia v. latiora tenuiora, sæpius imbricata. 
Stamina 6, quorum alternisepala 1-3, nunc deficientia; filamentis 
hypogynis gracilibus v. basi dilatatis; antheris lineari-oblongis erectis 
basifixis, perianthio brevioribus; loculis parallelis, ad margines v. 
introrsum rimosis. Germen sessile; stylo tenui erecto, fere ad medium 
in ramos stigmatiferos tortos subulatos diviso; loculis 5, alterni- 
petalis, plerumque plus minus incompletis. Ovula in placentis sin- 
gulis œ, 2-seriatim adscendentia anatropa; micropyle extrorsum 
infera. Fructus siccus loculicidus:; valvis medio seminiferis, v. pla- 
cents nunc a valva solutis. Semina œæ, extus striata v. reticulata ; 
integumento exteriore Lenui, nune plus minus producto et arilliformi. 
Albumen carnosum; embryone juxta basin brevi v. lenticulari. — 
Herbæ annuæ v. sæpius perennes; rhizomate vario; ramis aërlis 
erectis simplicibus ; foliis basilaribus, v. inferioribus paucis, lineari- 
subulatis v. teretibus, ex parte v. omnibus ad vaginas reductis; floribus 
in cymas Î-paras varie dispositis; cymis composito-racemosis V- 11 
corymbum capitulumve spurium confertis ; bracteis parvis v+ DUC 
foliaceis, nune, uti rami foliaque, intus medullosis septatis. (Orbis 
utriusque reg. temp. et frigid. humid.) — Vid. p. 403. 
2. Prionium E. MEY.!' — Flores Junci; perianthi foliolis 6, 
1. In Linnæa, VII, 130. ENDL., Gen., — B.H., Gen., lil, 869, n. 18, — Bose 7) 
n. 1048. — Hook., in Kew Journ., IX, 173,t. 4.  Junc., 4, 71, fig. 8; Pflansenfam.; 4, 0e 
