244 COMMON CANADIAN WILD PLANTS. 



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

 celled, or 1-celled with 3 placent» 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 stijdy of the 

 Order with the aid of more advanced text-books. 



Synopsis of tlie Gcucrsi. 



1. Ifirziiln. Plant less than 1 foot hig-h. Leaves linearorlance-jinear, 



flat, usually haii-y. Pod 1-celled, S-seerled. Flowers in umbels Or 

 in spikes. Plants usually growing in dry erround. 



2. Juucas. Plants always smooth, growing in water or wet soil. 



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

 3-eelled, many-seeded, 



1. liV'ZIILA, DC. Woon-RnsH. 



1. L. pilo'sa, Willd. (L. vernalis, DC.) Flowers nm- 

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

 Shady banks. 



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

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

 Fields and woods. 



2. JIINCIIS, L. KuSH. 



* Scaiies single and leafiess, bntwith sheaths at tlte base. Flowers in 

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

 the invoUicral le^ being similar to and continuiiiij 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 

 leaflet sheaths, the inner sheaths awned. Panicle many- 

 flowered. Flowers Small, greenish, only 1 oy. each pedicel. 

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

 jjointed . — Marshes . 



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

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

 greenish, broadly ovate, and short-pointed. Ko 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 hut 

 loointed, deep-broimi. 



