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JuncUS.2 XCYII. JUNCACE^. 465 



acuminate-aristate twice as long as the truncate stortly mucro- 

 nate capsule. HooL in E, B. S. t. 2644. J. supinus Bich. 

 J. ericetorum DC. /3, y. 



Jersey ; Mr. Hudson. 0. 5 — 7. — Plant 2 — 4 inches high, 

 flaccid. Leaves entirely radical, about half the length of the scape, 

 erect. Heads rather large in proportion to the size of the plant, of 

 3 — 6 sessile flowers, occasionally proliferous. Stamens usually 3, 

 sometimes 6. This species is well distinguished by the setaceous 

 inclined bractea (with its sheathing membranaceous base), which is 

 \ longer than the heads of flowers, and by the acuminate-aristate pe~ 

 rianth. 



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•[■•(■ Seeds with an appendage at each end. 



(not 



(two-flowered 



ing base, flowers 2 unilateral, one of them stalked mostly shorter 

 than the foliaceous involucre, capsule turbinate retuse rather 

 longer than the obtuse leaves of the perianth. E, B. t. 898. 



Boggy places on the Highland mountains, not unfrequent on the 



Breadalbane range, but rare in other parts of Scotland. If.. 7, 8. 



— Boot fibrous. Stem 2 — 4 inches high, growing not in tufts, but 



scattered : a much rarer species than the following, small specimens 



of which have often been mistaken for it. ** Leaves with distant 



transverse partitions within, but not longitudinally divided : " Mr. W. 

 Wilson, 



22. J. triglumis L, {three- flower edH?)'^ leaves linear-subulate 

 channelled bitubular their sheaths auricled above, flowers mostl3^ 

 3 generally as long as the membranaceous bractea, capsule 

 elliptical acute longer than the rather obtuse leaflets of the 

 perianth. E. B. t. 899. 



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^^ggy places among the mountains in the north of England, Wales, 

 and especially the Highlands of Scotland. %. 7, 8. — Mr. W. 

 Wilson has well studied, in living plants, the character of this and 

 the preceding species of Rush. " Stems,'' he says, of this plant, 

 "several from the same root, perfectly rounded, not channelled on one 

 side, as in /. higlumis^ naked above, and generally with 2, and some- 

 times 3 leaves near the base. Leaves with dilated sheaths, which are 

 auricled at the top, setaceous, channelled, hitubulary with transverse 

 partitions ; radical leaves also setaceous, more slender and longer 

 than in J. h'rglumis. Sometimes 4 flowers are found together, the 

 additional ones placed lower down and separated from the rest. Outer 

 bractea sometimes as large as in J. Uglumis: each flower has one 

 hractea at its base. Sepals more membranous than in the last, 

 narrower and more acute. Capsule longer than the calyx, with a 

 tapmng rather acute extremity, and with indistinctly furrowed sides; 

 colour almost black." W. Wilson. 



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