514 juNCACE^. [Juncus. 



triquetrous oblong-lanceolate (dark brown) capsule, interior 3 

 obtuse "—Br. Fl. p. 449. E. B. t. 2143. 



In similar places with the preceding, and equally common. Fl. July, 



August. If. 



By the roadside a little befure entering Whitefleld wood from Ryde. 



8. J. siipimts, Mcench. Lesser Bog Jainted Rush. " Stem erect 

 and often swollen at the base or decumbent and rooting, leaves 

 bristle-shaped slightly grooved faintly jointed internally, panicle 

 nearly simple irregular, clusters few- or many-flowered, sepals 

 equal oblong nearly as long as the elliptical very obtuse mucro- 

 nate (pale brown) capsule, outer 3 acute, inner ones rather obtuse." 

 —Br. Fl. J. uliginosus, Willd. : Br. Fl. p. 449. E. B. t. 801. 



(S. Stems procumbent or floating and proliferous. J. subverticillatus, Wulf. . 

 Sm. E. Fl. ii. p. 170. Host. Gram. Aust. iii. 58, t. 88. 



lu boggy watery places, on wet sandy heaths and commons. Fl. June — 

 Auijust. 2f. 



/3. Parkhurst forest. 



9. J. ohtusiflorus, Ehrh. Blunt-floivered Jointed Rush. Stem 

 and leaves erect rounded jointed internally, panicle repeatedly 

 compound, the branches divaricate and reflexed, clusters 3 — 8 

 flowered, segments of the perianth nearly equal rather obtuse 

 about as long as the ovate trigonous capsule. Sm. E. Fl. ii. p. 

 176. Br. Fl. p. 449. Lind. Syn. p. 276. E. B. xxx. t. 2144. 

 Fl. Dan. xi. t. 1872 (bona). 



In ditches, boggy or marshy meadows and pastures, growing evea in the water ; 

 abundant along the coast in West Medina, scarcely found in the eastern hundred. 

 Fl. August, September. 2^. 



M. Med. — On wet slipped land near the Sandrock spring, abundantly, and in 

 various jdaoes between Niton and Blackgang. Plentiful in the Undercliff, at 

 Blackgang, and in Sandown bay, Rev. G. E. Smith. 



W. Med. — Ditches in the marsh at Freshwater gate, plentifully, and where one 

 or two of the low boggy meadows are overrun with it. Near the shore just beyond 

 Norton, towards the preventive-station, sparingly. Wet banks of slipped land in 

 Colwell bay. Between the Needles (Groves's) hotel and Alum bay. 



Root creeping, whitish and jointed, emitting several fertile and barren scapes, 

 from 18 inches to 3 or 4 feet high, olive-green, round, smooth, polished, scarcely 

 striated, nearly solid below, hollow and jointed internally above, each with a close- 

 fitting pale brown or whitish sheath at the base, which is rounded at the apex, and 

 furnished with an awn or point about Jth of an inch long. Barren scapes leafless, 

 or, like the fertile, having one or two leaves resembling the scape itself, but softer 

 and less rigid, closely sheathing the latter in its lower part, and auricled where 

 they separate from it ; when two leaves are present on the same scape the upper 

 one is usually short and near the summit, the other very long and set about mid- 

 way on the scape. Panicle terminal, ohlong, diff'use, its branches compressed, 

 repeatedly compound, their minor divisions widely spreading, divaricate, bent 

 down at a right angle, subtended by a pointed bract various in length. Flowers 

 small, pale whitish green or reddish, in clusters of from 2 to 6 or 8 together. 

 Segments of the perianth nearly equal, concave, a little rounded or obtuse at their 

 white membranous tips. Germen green. Stigmas mostly twisted in a loose spiral. 

 Capsules very small, chestnut-brown, shining and striated, more or less obtuse or 

 pointed ; with 3 thick prominent angles ; as long as or often a little exceeding the 

 perianth. Seeds several, very minute, pale brown, oblong, pointed, beautifully 

 ribbed longitudinally, with connecting reticulations, and without a tunic. 



