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XCVII. JUNCACEiE. 



i^^arthecinni^ 



Scotland. %. 7. — Stem 7—8 inches high, slender. Leaves small 

 narrow, hairy only at the margins of the sheaths. Spike dark' 

 coloured, interrupted near the base. Capsule very dark, shininj 

 brown. Well distinguished by its drooping compound spike and 

 narrow leaves. 



3. Narthecium Huds. Bog- Asphodel. 



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Perianth coloured^ of 6 linear-lanceolate, spreadino-, atleno-th 

 connivent sepals. Stam. woolly. " 



entire. 



Germen pyraniidal. 



Stigma 



Caps. 3-celled, at the base 3-valved. Seeds numerous 

 with an appendage at each extremity. — iNTamed from vapi^vil a 

 rod; probably from the elongated straight raceme of flowers. 

 It is remarkable that this word is an anagram of Anthericum a 

 geuus with which Linnaeus had united it. 



1. N. ossifragum Huds. {Lancashire B,); leaves linear uni- 

 form, pedicels with bracteas above the middle, stamens mucli 

 shorter than the perianth. £J. B. t. 535. 



Wet places, in moors and mountains, frequent, Ijl. 7, 8. Stem 



6—8 inches high, decumbent at the base. Roots creeping. Leaves 

 all radical, uniform, equitant, striate, about \ as long as the scape, 

 which has many scales or bracteas. Stamens considerably shorter 

 ih^n thQ perianth. Seeds with a very long arillus forming an appen- 

 dage to each extremity, attached to a longitudinal receptacle on each 

 valve : the receptacles form the dissepiments. 



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Perianth conspicuous ; three inner or all the sepals much de- 

 veloped and petaloid. Albumen wanting. Aquatic or marshy 



XCVIII. XCIX.) 



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(Ord. 



Orb. XCVIII. BUTOMACEiE Rich. 



Perianth of 6 pieces, the 3 inner petaloid. Stamens definite 



or indefinite, hypogynous. Ovaries^S or 6, or more, superior, 



Ovules numerous in each cell or carpel. 



distinct or united. 



Stigmas as many as ovaries, simple. Follicles several, either 

 distinct and rostrate, or united into one. Seeds minute, numer- 

 ous, attached to a reticulated receptacle, covering the whole 

 inner surface of the cell. Albumen 0.— Aquatics. Leaves very 

 cellular. Flowers umbellate, handsome. 



1. BuTOMUS Linn. Flowering -rush. 



Perianth single, coloured, 6-partite, inferior. 

 in an outer, 3 in an inner row. 



Stamens 9, 6 



Seeds longitudinally striate. 



Capsides 6, many-seeded 

 Xamed from fiovc, an ox^ and 



refxvu) to cut; because the sharp leaves injure the mouths of 

 cattle that browse upon them. 



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 or 2 supe: 



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seeded 

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