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COMMON CANADIAN WILD PLANTS. 



Stameu3 6 (occasionally 3). Style 1. Stigmas 3. Pod 3- 

 oelled, or 1-celled with 3 placentas on the walls. The plants 

 of the Order are not of any very great interest to the young 

 student, and the determination of the species is rather diffi- 

 cult. A brief description of a few of the most common is 

 given here, as an easy introduction to the study of the 

 Order with the aid of more advanced text-books. 



Synopsis of tlie Geuera. 



1. lin'zala. Plant less than 1 foot high. Leaves linear or lance-linear, 



flat, usually hairy. Pod 1-celled^ 3-seeded. Flowers in umbels or 

 in spikes. Plants usually growing in dry ground. 



2. Jniicus. Plants always smooth^ growing in water or wet soil. 



Flowers small, greenish or brownish, panicled or clustered. Pod 

 3-celled, many'Seeded. 



1. LIJ'ZIIIA, DC. Wood-Edse. 



1'. L. pilO'sa, Wiild. {L. vernalis, DC.) Mowers nm- 



belled, long-pedunoled, brown-coloured. Sepals pointed. — 



Shady banks. 



2. L. CampestFiS, DC, has the flowers (light brown) in 



4-12 spikes, the spikes umbelled. Sepals bristle-pointed. — 



Fields and woods. 



2. JUNCUS, L. EUSH. 



* Scapes single and leafiess, bnt with slieaths at the base. Flowers in 

 sessile panicles^ apparently from the side of the scape, owing to 

 the involucral leaj" being similar to and continuing the scape. 



1. J. effu'SUS, L. (Common or Soft Eush.) Scape 2-4 

 feet high, soft and pliant, furnished at the base with merely 

 leafless sheaths, the inner sheaths awned. Panicle many- 

 iiowered. Flowers small, greenish, only 1 on each pedicel. 

 Stamens 3. Pod greenish-brown, triangular-obovate, not 

 pointed . — Marshes . 



2. J. fllifor'mis, L., has a very slender scape (1-2 feet 

 high), fewer flowers than No. 1, and 6 stamens in each. Pod 

 greenish, broadly ovate, and short- pointed. No leaves. 



3. J. Bal'tieus, Dethard, var. littoralis, Engelm. Scape 

 rigid, 2-3 feet high. No leaves. Panicle loose. Flowers 

 brownish. Pod elliptical, somewhat triangular, obtuse but 

 pointed, deep-brown. 



