'A 



ENGLISH ROTANY. 



and terminated by heads, or solitary or in fascicles of 2 or 3 arranged 

 in an uinlienato-cor3anbose panicle which has the ultimate branches 

 sometimes racemose. 



SPECIES XVI.- J UNCUS CAPITATUS. Wdgrl. 



Plate MDLXXI. 



neicli. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. IX. Tab. CCCXCI. Fig. 8G2. 



nillot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Ex.sicc. No. 470. 



J. cricetoriim, Poll. B.C. Fl. Fr. Vol. III. p. 164. 



Annual, without any rootstock. Stems solitary or several, setaceous, 

 furrowed, leafless, except at the base ; sheaths short brown, ter- 

 minating in a setaceous channelled lamina, which does not appear 

 j(nnted when dry. Flowers 2 to 8, collected into a head, rarely with 

 a second head at the extremity of a branch rising from the base of 

 the primary head. Lowest bract about twice as long as the head. 

 Perianth leaves slightly unequal, the outer ones longer than the others, 

 lanceolate, acuminate-aristate, recurved at the tips; the inner ones 

 acute; all of them pale brown, twice as long as the capsule. Stamens 

 3 ; filaments longer than the anthers. Style shorter than the ovary. 

 Capsule subglobular-ovoid, trigonous, pale reddish-brown, obtuse, 

 mucronate. Seeds excessively minute ; testa not produced into an 

 appendage. 



In sandy places inundated in winter. Very rare. L'Ancresse 

 Common and Port de Fer, Guernsey ; the Quenvais and slopes of the 

 hills beyond St. Brelade's Bay, Jersey. 



Cliannel Islands. Annual. Summer. 



Stems erect, ^|^ to 6 inches high. Leaves much shorter than the 

 stem. Perianth leaves JL ii^ch long, the outer ones the longest, and 

 produced into a bristle-shaped slightly recurved point. Seeds ex- 

 tremely minute, pale reddish-broAvn. 



Of this species I have not had an opportunity of examining fresh 

 specimens. 



Capitate Rush. 



French, Jonc en tele. German, KopfhliUliige Binse. 



SPECIES XVII.— J UNCUS BUPONIUS. Linn. 



Plates IVIDLXXII. MDLXXIII. 



If.'irh. Ic. Fl. Gomi. et Helv. Vol. IX. Tab. CCCXCV. 

 BIU,4, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 83. 



Annual, without any rootstock. Stems few or solitary, but generally 



