'2(') ENOUSII BOTANY. 



iiboiit tlio middle. Seeds a little longer and consiilcraMy ln'onder tlian 

 those of J. communis, and of a darker brown. 



Hard Rush. 



French, Jone glanqne. German, Meergrilne Binse. 



Tn Finncp, ^fr. W. Robinson, in Lis instructive work, " The Parks, Promenades, and 

 Gardens of Paris," informs us that iu France it is extensively used in tying up plants 

 as a substitute for bass. 



SPECIES X.-JUNCUS BALTICUS. W.lhl. 



Plate MDLXIV. 



Rmch. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. IX. Tab. CCCCXI. 

 J. glaucus, ft littoralis, Waltl. Fl. Suec. Vol. I. p. 209. 

 J. arctieus, Hooh. Sm. Eng. Fl. Vol. II. p. 1G3 (non WUhl). 



Not cfespitose. Rootstock very extensively creeping, its branches 

 with the stems placed widely apart, one before the other. Stems few, 

 Aviry, tough, ratlier slender, thin, terete, nearly smooth when fresh, finely 

 striate when dry, deep green, filled with continuous jjith. Sheaths 

 leafless, or some of them with a very short setaceous-subulate lamina, 

 deeply striate, yellowish, the basal one fuscous, slightly shining. Panicle 

 pseudo-lateral, from the lowest bract resemjaling a continuation of the 

 stem, and being much longer than the panicle. Flowers few, solitary, 

 arranged in a slightly compound umbellato-corymbose panicle, with the 

 lower branches erect, rather short, once (rarely twice) branched, some- 

 times so short that the inflorescence forms a head. Perianth leaves 

 chestnut, with a pale midrib, nearly equal, lanceolate, acute, as long as 

 or a little longer than the capsule. Stamens 6. Capsule oval-ovoid, 

 indistinctly trigonous, subobtuse, very abruptly acuminated into a 

 short mucro, dark chestnut. Seeds rather minute, witl, ut an appen- 

 dage. 



In sandy places near the sea, or rarely by inland lakes. Rare, 

 and confined to the north of Scotland, where it occurs on the coast of 

 Forfar, Aberdeen, Banff, Moray, Ross, Sutherland, and that of tlie 

 Hebrides ; also on the south side of the Loch of Park or Drum, Kin- 

 cardineshire, ten or twelve miles from the sea. 



Scothmd. Perennial. Late Summer. 



Stem 6 to 18 inches high, produced at intervals along the exten- 

 sively creeping rootstock. Lowe.'^t panicle branches rarely more than 

 1 inch long, and often not above ] inch. Perianth leaves about -J 

 inch long, each flower enveloped at the base by two ovate bracts, 

 much paler than the perianth leaves. Capsule broader and blunter 



