358 - WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS. 
and others), are perfectly hardy, and so beautiful that they should have 
a place in the smallest flower garden 
Orper LXXVIUL JUNCA’CEZ. (Rusa a 
Herbs with jointed stems, gras tae or terete leaves he: nd regular mostl ‘ect flowers. 
Perianth of 6 similar, dry and glumaceous, areca sepals. Stamens Ff (rarely 3) ; an- 
thers introrse. Ovary free, forming in fru a1—3-celled 3-valved mans -seeded capsule. 
sarge Seeds erect ; nclosed S* se base of hard albwmen. 
An Order possessing but little tenoky or v: 
1. JUN’CUS, L. Kusz. 
[Latin, Jungere, to join ; being used to tie or bind objects together.] 
Sepals 6, glumaccous. Stamens _— 6, inserted on the base of the 
sometimes those on the 3 inner sepals aherave Stigmas 3, 
at 1-c 
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dissepiments in the middle. Seeds numerous. Chiefly perennials with 
mostly simple and scape-like pithy stems and cymose, paniculate or clus- 
Sed : : 
pe “sus, aked, often st sterile; furnished with short leaf- 
less sheaths at base, filled with spongy pith ; panicle produced from the . 
side of the scape above the middle, diffusely ‘much branched. 
Errusep Juncus. Common Rash. Soft Rush. 
foot percenes, pe dae tussocks. Culms 2-3 fect high, simple, soft and pliable, sheathed 
at base, and terminating at summit in a long tapering ‘point. nflorescence ose-panic- 
ulate, bursting cae a fissure in the side of the culm near the —S often proliferous, 
bracteate ; be oblong: fea es erie Stamens 3, shorter than the sepals, oppo- 
site the 3 onter ones ; anthers ——- sule trigonous- y Pasienbe obtuse. Seals minute, 
oblong, br at each’ an: yellowi 
an Moist meadows and low pronase iia the United States. FU. June. Fr. July- 
ugust. 
Obs. The genus is a numerous one,—comprising about 100 a 
species—of which some 18 or 20 are natives of the U. States. bai 
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, in wet low grounds—an ring some 
eeaiion to keep it in Proper sabaution. Mr. Exxiorr says a = 
8. Carolina, this Rush “ yur awer and almost covers rice-fields as 
” so common in salt mE along the coast 
J, bulbosus, L., and the little sates so commo: footpaths, mn 
ing to flourish best where it is most trodden on, "5 Ho D iehind L. 
Orpen LXXIX. CYPERA’CE. (Ssepce Fammy.) 
Rush-like or grass-like herbs, with fibrous ri roots and solid stems (culms and closed 
sheaths. Flowers usually one in the axl of = of the glumne-like bracts setehic form an 
imbricated cluster or splinlet. Perianth none, or consisting of scales or bristles. Siamens 
