OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Juncus. 97 



Stems inferior in softness, pliability aud length to Scirpus lacus- 

 tris : for chair bottoms, ropes, and baskets, in some places. 



* I^eafy. 



J. squarrosus, 3Ioss R. Goose Corn. Stem naked. 

 Leaves numerous, bristle-shaped, immediately from the 

 root, tufted, channelled. Panicle terminal, compound, 

 with cymose branches. E. B. 933. Gram en' junceum 

 maritimum. G. E. 21. 



Bocjgy spots, barren, sandy heaths. 



Per. July. 



Ls. stiff, linear. Steri about one f., straight, stiff. Panic, the par- 

 tial and general stalks proceed from a reddish -brown, long, 

 sheathing, smooth bract. FL large, compared with the other 

 common species.. Cal. dark-brown : border narrow, filmy, 

 white. Caps, inversely egg-shaped, shining. 



J. comjyressus. Stalk-compressed R. Stem simple, 'com- 

 pressed ; leafy below. Leaves linear, incurved at the 

 edges. Panicle cymose, terminal, shorter than the 

 bractea. Capsule roundish-inversely egg-shaped, longer 

 than the blunt calyx. J. bulbosus. E. B. 934. 



Moist pastures. 



Per. July. 



Stems leafy at the root, about one f, simple, smooth, slightly com- 

 pressed. Panic, erect, terminal, many-flowered, often sur- 

 mounted by a less one on a longer stalk. FL small. Cal. 

 bluntish, segments green with a broad, brown edge. 

 Root not bulbous, but creeping. 



J. bufoniiis. Toad R. Stem forked, leafy. Leaves 

 angular, channelled. Panicle forked, racemose, longer 

 than the bracteas. Calyx-leaves spear-shaped, taper- 

 pointed, membranous, two-ribbed, longer than the 

 oblong capsule. E. B. 802. Gramen junceum. G. 

 E. 4. 



Marshy ground, watery, sandy heaths. 



An. July. 



Root fibrous. Stems nvmierous, upright, variable in height from 

 one to ten inches. Upper part of the branches, terminating in 

 simple rows of stalkless and stalked, green flowers. Plant 

 smooth, paler than the rest of the species. Ls. linear-setaceous, 

 acute. Bract, pellucid. Caps, slender, blunt. 

 The solitary fl. and long silky cal. mark this species, and its 



grassy appearance. In germination the seed considerably elevated 



above gi'ound by the plant. 



' The Is. and root resemble the plant, 

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