Juncus.] CLXii. JUNOAOB^. (J. D. Hooker.) 393 



with densely packed flowers. Sepals -^j^-^ in. Stamens 3, rarely 6, shorter than 

 the sepals. Capsule obtuse or mucronate. Seeds very obtuse at each end, minute. 

 — A graceful form with effuse nodding or decurved very lax-flowered cymes 3-5 in. 

 long, long-pediccUed triandrous flowers and more or less interrupted pith, is common 

 in the Sikkim woods at 5-8000 ft. elevation. 



3. J. g'laucus, Ehrh. Beitr. vi. 83 ; stems rigid glaucous deeply 

 striate, pith interrupted, sepals lanceolate about equalling the ovoid muoro- 

 nate capsule, stamens 6, seeds obtuse at either end. Ktinth Enwm. iii. 316 ; 

 Thwaites Enum. 340 ; Wall. Cat. Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 353 ; Buohen. m 

 Engl. Bot. Jahrh. vi. 199 ; xii. 243 ; Beichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 412. J. effusus, 

 Steud. PL Bohenaclc. 



Western Himalaya, alt. 6-9000 ft., from Kashmir to Nepal ; the Nilghiri 

 Hills and CErLON. — Distbie. Europe, N. Asia, N. Africa. 



Habit of T. effusus, but usually stiffer and darker green with deeper striated 

 stems. I have great difliculty in referring some of the Himalayan dried specimens 

 whether to glaums or to effusus. 



4. J. maritimus; LamJc. Encyol. iii. 264 ; stem terete, basal sheaths 

 short pale, leaves few terete pungent, cyme decompound, branches erect, 

 sepals lanceolate acute, petals shorter oblong obtuse rather shorter than 

 the OToid or conic 3-celled capsule, seeds shortly tailed at each end. 

 Eunth Enum. iii. 322 ; Buchen. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xii. 256 ; Meichh. Ic. 

 Fl. Oerm. ix. t. 402 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 354. 



Sandy shores of Sindh, Stocks, &c. — Distrib. Affghanistan and westward to 

 the Atlantic, N. and S. America, Australia. 



Stems 2-4 ft., striate, pith solid ; basal sheaths narrow, obtuse, pungent or pro- 

 duced into a solid terete pungent leaf. Cyme 1-2 in. long ; floral bracts ovate, 

 mucronate, margins broadly membranous ; sepals ^— j in. long, pale green, margins 

 membranous ; stamens 6, filaments dilated and connate at the base, anthers linear. 

 Capsule sometimes half as long again as the sepals, obtuse, mucronate, shining. 

 Seeds oblong or obovoid. 



Sect. III. Perennial. Steins simple, slender, leafy. Leaves filiform, 

 not septate. Cymes terminal. Stamens 6, included. Capsule shorter or 

 longer than the perianth. 



5. J. tenuis, Willd. Sp. PI. ii. 214 ; stem very slender tufted curved 

 1-2-leaved, leaves very slender flat or involute, cyme terminal rather 

 efEuse, flowers small distant or sparingly clustered, sepals lanceolate 

 acuminate much longer than the 6 stamens, anthers shorter than their 

 filaments ; capsule hardly exserted subglobosely trigonous. Kunth Enum. 

 iii. 348 ; Buchen. in Engl. Bot. Jahrh. xii. 193 ; Beichh. Ic. Fl. Germ. ix. t. 

 398 ; Kunth Enum. iii. 348, 349. 



Assam, Griffith. — Distrib. Europe, As., Am., N. Zealand. 



Stem 9-18 in. and leaves wiry. Leaves rarely exceeding the stem, deeply striate ; 

 sheath membranous, 2-auricled. Cyme narrow or broad, compound, rarely dense-fld., 

 lower bract or bracts filiform, usually exceeding the cyme ; fioral membranous ; 

 flowers green ; sepals spreading, ^ in. long ; anthers shorter than their filaments ; 

 style very short. Capsule mucronate. Seeds obovoid or oblong, apicnlate. — 

 Possibly introduced into Assam, as the species is spreading out of Europe, 



6. J. compressus, Jacg. En. Svrtp. Vind. 60, 235 ; stems slender 

 1-2-leaved, leaves slender channelled, cyme terminal, branches spreading, 

 flowers subsolitary, sepals linear-oblong obtuse about equalling the broadly 



