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fliiwers 2 — 5 together, brown, ia a ttrminal panicle ; periaiitli- 

 leaves ovate-lanceolate, as long as the blunt, bristle-pointed <rap- 

 side. — Moors and heaths ; abundant. — Fl. June, July. Perennial. 

 13. /. icimis (Slender Rush). — Stems about a foot high, 

 cylindric, very slender ; leiives few, mostly radical, linear, 

 grooved; flowers pale, some stalked,: others not, in terminal 

 panicles, shorter than the long, erect, thread-like hraets ; periantli- 

 leaves lanceolate, longer than the spherical eapsiile. — Moist, sandy 

 places, chiefly in the north and Avest ; \ery rare. — Fl. June — 



August. Perennial, 



14. /. coiiipri'ssus (Round 

 fruited^ Push),— A slender plant, 

 aliout a foot high, with tufted 

 steins, -hollow, round, and leafy 

 below, compressed above, with 

 one linear, grooved haj above ; 

 flmvers brown, in a compact 

 terminal panicle : perianth-leaves 

 oval-ol^long, shorter than the 

 nearly round, bristle-pointed cap- 

 sule. — Damp places ; rare, — Fl, 

 1 une-— August. Perennial. 



15. /. Gereirdi (Mud Rush), — 

 Stems less-tufted, 3-sided above ; 

 perianth-leaves as lung as the 

 strongly mucronatt; eapsnie. — Salt 

 marshejs ; common, — Fl, June — 

 August. Perennial. 



*■■■' Perennial ; stems solid : leaves 

 liollo'C, jointed internally 



16. /. siib-nudulosiis (Plunt- 

 flowered Jointed Rush). — lu'cct, 

 - — 3 'fet high ; stem and leaves 



smofith and round ; flmcers in clusters of 3 S, in repeatedly 

 branched, sjireading cor)'hibs, pale, often ' reddish ; perianth- 

 leaves blunt, as long as the ovale,: inucronate, pale brown 

 capsule. — Marshes ; not common. ^~ Id. July — September. 

 Perennial. 



17, J. aentilld-us (Sharp flnnercd Jojnted Rush).— .S'/,';» erect, 

 T--2 feet high, slender, slightly compressed, 3 — 4 leaved : leaves 

 slightly compressed, very consjiicuously jointed wht'n tiry ; flowers 

 dark chestnut brown, in dense cluster?; of 3 — 12, in a terminal. 

 |)yramidal, compound panicle ; perianth-leaves acuminate, barely 



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