Ifi ENGLISH BOTAXV. 



Lake district. On the Scotch Highhuids it is common, and thougli 

 absent from Orkney, it occurs in Shetland. 



England, Scotland. Perennial. Late Summer. 



Plant growing in small tufts, with 1 to 18 stems in each tuft. 

 Stems 2 to 10 inches high, slender, wir}'. Leaves 1 to 3 inches 

 long, scarcely thicker than the stems. Flowers enclosed in ])ale 

 chestnut bracts, of which the lowest one has sometimes a short 

 foliaceous point, in which case it appears to be a continuation of the 

 stem, so that the head is pseudo-lateral. Perianth leaves about 

 -^ inch long. Capsule about ^ inch long, paler than that of J. 

 castaneus. Seeds about two-thirds the size of those of that plant, from 

 the apical appendages not bemg quite so long. 



Three-flowered Rush. 

 Frencli, Jonc a trow glumes. 



SPECIES IV.-JUNCUS BIGLUMIS. Lir.n. 

 Plate MDLVII. 



Not casspitose. Kootstock with short stolons. Stems solitary, 

 semicylindrical, with a groove on the side to which the flowers are 

 turned. Leaves all radical, Unear-subulate, slightly compressed. 

 Sheaths 2, without auricles, the uppermost with a lamina like the 

 free radical leaves. Inflorescence a single head, rarely with a 

 solitary flower a little way beneath it; head or upper head pseudo- 

 lateral. Lowest bract foliaceous, two to six times as long as the head, 

 resembling a continuation of the stem. Flowers 1 to 3, but generally 

 2, the upper one shortly stalked, the lower subsessile. Perianth 

 leaves strapshaped-elliptical, obtuse, chestnut, very little shorter than 

 the capsule. Capsule chestnut at the apex, paler towards the base, 

 oblong-turbinate, trigonous, deeply notched at the apex, with a small 

 mucro not exceeding the depth of the notch. Seeds rather large, 

 with a moderately long appendage at each end. 



In wet places and by the sides of rills on micaceous rocks. Very 

 local, and nearly restricted to the Brcadalbane Mountains in Perth- 

 shire, where I have collected it on Ben Lawers, Catjachiamen, and 

 other hills in that district. Dr. Dickie has gathered it in small quantity 

 on rocks beside the waterfall at the head of Glen Callater, Aberdeen- 

 shire. It is also reported from Clova, Ben Nevis, Cau'ngorm, and the 

 more improbable habitat of Goat Fell, in Arran. 



Scotland. Perennial. Late Summer. 



Stems 1 to 7 inches high. Leaves f to 2 inches long, more resem- 



