5. J. Bcilticus Willd. (Baltic Rush); scapes very obscurely 

 striate rigid, "pitli continuous," panicle erect branched, sepals 

 nearly equal ovate-lanceolate very acute as long as the elliptical 

 scarcely trigonous obtuse mucronate capsule, stamens 6. JE, B, 

 S. t. 2621. J. arcticus Hook in Fl Lond. t. 151 6iot Willed 



Wrath 



Aberdeenshire : 



Stottield, 6 m. from Elgin, between Findhorn and Spey, on the banks 



j!i0^'' 



Sio^^^ 



n 



s 



ee" ,j. i 





l,bl^ 



3le 







afl 



460 xcvii. JUNCACE^. iJuneus. 



3. J. diffusus Hoppe (loose-flowered R.) ; scapes finely nre 

 striate rigid, "pith continuous" (or interrupted), panicle n ^'^^^' 

 loose much branched erect, sepals lanceolate subulate lono-er '^ ' 

 than the obovate obtuse mucronate capsule, stamens 6. Home 

 in Sturm^s Deutsch, Flora^ 77. 10. 



Wet places, rare, Hertingfordbury and Hoddesdon, Herts ; near 

 Ashby-de-la-Zouch and Twycross, Leicest. ; between Guildford and 

 Woking Railway Station, Surrey ; Epping Forest (between Walthain- 



stow and Woodford) and Halstead, Essex ; Isle of Wight, and Hav- I 1 I '^^ 



ling Island, Hants. Kincardine, Scotland. l^. 7, 8. Of this ' Jout^^ 



we have seen no British specimen: it appears to be a mere variety I '^^ flo^^^ 



of the /. glaucus, with which indeed E. Meyer unites it, and with which l ^V ncff 



we understand it always grows intermixed in this country. Dr ^ 



Eromfield considered it a hybrid between /. glaucus and J, congh^' \ Si^^^^^ 



meratus, with both of which he always found it associated, and has iodr^*^'^' 



shown that the character taken from the pith is not absolutely to be ' inlrelan^l- 



depended upon : we doubt if it be so in any of these species. ^nimy^" 



4. J. glaucns 'Ehrh. (hard R,) ; scapes deeply striate rigid, f fjigpa 

 *' pith interrupted," panicle loose much branched, sepals lanceo- ^"Itinuati* 

 late subulate nearly equal rather longer than the elIiptic-oblon<y ! ■Ion. 

 mucronate capsule, stamens 6. E. B. t. 665. i * / 



1 H J , GCU 



Wet pastures and by road-sides. 1/ . 7. — Boot creeping. Scapes fprhncte 



1 — 2 ft. high, glaucous, rigid, covered at the base with deep purple- ^j /^^ 



brown, membranaceous, shining sheaths. Panicle lax, erect. Flowers [f ?i^ ' 



slender, pale brown, with a broad green line down the middle of each ™iy ova 



leaflet of the perianth, Bracteas small and acuminate, tadmemt 



Sandy sea-i 



and stouter th 

 Arable size, 



Slemka] 

 Sandy sea-shores in Scotland. Near Dundee; Mr. T, Drummond. | llmth\ 



(ii'fasci 



of the Lossie, 7 m. from the sea ; and also at St. Andrew's and Lang- I 9. J. (icufn 



bride, near Elgin, where the sea formerly reached. 2/. . 7. — This comes I hves subcoii 



very near the true /. arcticus ; it is, however, assuredly the /. Bal- '^''^5— gfl. 



ticus of Willdenow, and differs from /. arcticus in its much taller and 



more rigid scapes, larger and decidedly branched panicle, and rounded, 



not trigonous, capsules. Both have exceedingly creeping roots, more 



so than any other species we are acquainted with. Flowers dark 



brown, with a pale line down the centre of each segment. | .^% very 



6. J. Jiliformis L. (Thread Rush); scapes filiform faintly r^i,^ ?' 



striate, panicle simple of few flowers from near the middle of ^'^f^J/j ^^^^ 



the scape, sepals lanceolate acuminate nearly equal larger than %^ "*^'fa 



the roundish-obovate obtuse mucronate capsule, stamens 6, I , ' 



-E. ^.t. 1175. 'C '^^'^^ 



