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of Ben Lawers, Perthshire, and in Canlochan Glen, Forfarshire, and 

 have specimens from the Glass ^laol, on the confines of Aberdeen- 

 shire and Forfarshire, and from Glen Isla, in the latter connty; also 

 from Benima, Dumbartonshire, collected by the late Mr. W. Gourlay. 

 There is a specimen in the Smithian herbarium, said to have been 

 collected in the county of Durham by the Rev. Mr. Harriman; but as 

 no subsequent collector has detected it, and it is a conspicuous plant, 

 this is scarcely sufficient e\'idence for considering it an English 

 species. 



[England?] Scotland. Perennial. Late Summer. 



Extensively creeping, the parent plant throwing up new stems at 

 a distance of some inches. Stems 3 to 14 inches high, with 5 or G 

 leaves, the lowest of which are produced at the very base, and 2 or 3 

 between the base and the inflorescence. Perianth leaves -J- inch long. 

 Capsule } inch long. Seeds with the nucleus about half as large as 

 that of J. trifidus, but the testa is produced into a long sac at each 

 end, so that the whole length of the seed is greater. 



Clustered Eiish. 



SPECIES III.-JUNC US TRIGLUMIS. Linn. 

 Plate MDLVI. 

 Ee!ch. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. IX. Tab. CCCXCn. Fig. 865. 



Subcajspitose. Rootstock without stolons. Stems few, cylindrical. 

 Leaves few, all radical, filiform, semicylindrical, channelled at the 

 base. Sheaths 1 to 3, with truncate auricles, the 2 uppermost with 

 laminae like the free radical leaves. Inflorescence a single head, 

 wbich is terminal or sometimes pseudo-lateral while in flower. 

 Lowest bract scarious or subfoliaceous, even in the latter case not 

 above twice as long as the head. Flowers 1 to 4, generally 3 in 

 the head; when there are 3 or 4, the lowest a little way below the 

 others. Perianth leaves narrowly elliptical, subobtuse, at first cream- 

 colour, afterwards reddish-brown, about three-fourths of the length of 

 the capsule. Capsule chestnut-ovoid, prismatical, abruptly acuminated, 

 with a cylindrical beak about one-tenth the length of the capsule. 

 Seeds rather large, with a long white appendage at each end. 



In wet places and by the sides of rivulets on mountains. Not 

 uncommon. In England it is confined to the Carnarvonshire moun- 

 tains, and the Widdy Bank, Teesdale, on the Durham side of the 

 stream ; on Cronkley Fell, on the Yorkshire side of the stream, it is 

 said to have been planted by Mr. John Binks ; it also occurs in the 



