CATALOGUE. 357 



2-3 times longer than the filaments ; stigmas included, scarcely equaling the 

 linear-prismatic ovary; capsule prismatic, pointed, exsert, 3-celled ; seeds 

 oblong, finely striate-ribbed, long-caudate. — Mountains of Colorado, Califor- 

 nia and Oregon. East Humboldt and Clover Mountains, Nevada, and in the 

 Wahsatch; 8-10,000 feet altitude ; July-September. (1,198.) 



JuNCUS BUFONius, L. Everywhere. Frequent through Nevada and 

 Utah, usually in the valleys ; 4-6,000 feet altitude ; but also collected (dvv'arf 

 specimens, i' high, 2-3-flowered) in the Clover Mountains, Nevada, with the 

 next, at a height of 9,000 feet ; May-September. (1,199.) 



JuNCUS TRiFOEMis, Eng. ; /. c, 492. Annual ; stems very low, leafy, 

 branched ; peduncles capillary, scapelike, numerous, ^-4' long, much exceed- 

 ing the short (2-12" long) filiform leaves, which are channeled, but flat to- 

 ward the apex ; flowers 1-6, in small heads or solitary ; sepals lance-subulate, 

 equal, 1-lS" long, about equaling the ovate-obtuse mucronate 2-8-celled cap- 

 sule ; seeds ovate, obtuse, short-pointed, faintly ribbed and transversely lined. 

 Var. UNIFLOEUS, Eng. Very small, 1' high or less, with the solitary 2-bracted 

 flowers mostly dimerous, (sepals 4, stamens, stigmas and carpels in pairs.) — 

 California. Clover Mountains, Nevada ; 9,000 feet altitude ; September. 

 Less than a half-inch high ; bracts very small, nearly obsolete. With a di- 

 minutive state of the last; evidently a starved, stunted form. (1,200.) 



JuNCUS LONGiSTYLis, Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 223. Eng., I. c, 453. 

 Stems 1-2° high, csespitose, stoloniferous, teretish above, usually minutely 

 scabrous, leafy ; leaves flat, grass-like, 1" wide, shorter than the stem ; heads 

 few (5-9) in a contracted (1 J-3' long) panicle, 3-8-flowered, or rarely single 

 and 12-15-flowered ; flowers 2^-3" long, greenish with brown lines, smooth, 

 pedicelled ; sepals equal, ovate-lanceolate, acute or cuspidate ; stamens 6, one- 

 half as long ; filaments half as long as the anthers ; ovary equaling the sta- 

 mens and style; stigmas exserted ; capsule ovate, obtuse, mucronate or 

 rostrate, chestnut-colored and shining, 3-celled, equaling or a little exceeding 

 the calyx; seeds oblanceolate or obovate, pointed, costate-reticulate! — From 

 New Mexico and Arizona northward to the Saskatchewan and Washington 

 Territory. In wet meadows in Nevada and Utah; 4-8,000 feet altitude; 

 June-September. (1,201.) 



Var. LATiFOLius, Eng. ; /. c, 496. Stem 1° high, naked or with a single 

 leaf at base, much exceeding the short linear-lanceolate leaves, 2-5' long, 

 2-3" wide ; panicle simple, longer than the membranous or rarely foliaceous 



