Jiincits.] CXLI. JUNCACE^. 1667 



Flowei'S all collected Into distinct clusters 5. <7. vaginatus. 



Stamens 6. Scales at the base of the stem shoit or longer than in 

 J. communis. Flowers small, distinct in the panicle 6. J. paiici/lonis. 



Stems very stout and tall with long loose scales at the base. Flowers 

 rather larg;, distinct in the panicle. Stamens varying 3 to 6 . . 7. J.pallidns. 



Filaments short and flat. Seeds tailed. Stems very rigid. Stamens 6 B. J. maritinma. 



Leaves and terminal bracts appearing jointed from internal cross 

 partitions of pith. 

 Stems more or less flattened usually 1 to 2ft. Perianth-segments 

 IJ line with long subulate points. Stamens usually 4 9 J. prismatocarpus. 



Stems 2 to 7in. Flower-clusters small and few. Perianth-segments 



1 line long, lanceolate, rather acute 10. /. capillaceus. 



1. J. planifolius (leaves flat), E. Br. Prod. 259 ; Benth. hi. Austr. vii. 125. 

 Stock tufted. Leaves radical, usually numerous, flat and grass-like, shorter than 

 the stem, 1 to 3 lines or rarely nearly 4 broad, with long imbricating sheaths 

 almost distichous, the whole habit nearly that of some varieties of Ltizula 

 campestris. Stems leafless, usually 1 to If ft. high, but sometimes much lower, 

 with a terminal compound unequally branched cyme, the lower branches often 

 clustered. Bracts all small and scarious, or rarely 1 or 2 leafy ones at the base 

 of the inflorescence. Flowers brown, in globular clusters at the base of the 

 ramifications and ends of the branches. Perianth-segments but little more 

 than 1 line long, very acute. Stamens 3. Ovary with 8 parietal placentae 

 only very .shortly connected at the base and numerous ovules. Capsule 

 mueronate or scarcely acuminate, about as long as the periahth. Seeds ovoid, 

 very small, the minute reticulations visible only under a Jin. lens. — Hook. f. 

 Fl. Tasm. ii. Gi. 



Hab.: Gullies of the Main Bange and other southern localities. 



2. J. bufonius (found where toads abound), Lijin. ; Kmith. Emtm. iii. 353 ; 

 Benth. Fl. Austr. vii. 127. — A pale-coloured tufted annual, rarely exceeding 6 to 

 Sin. and often scarcely half that size, the stems erect, slender and branching, with 

 a linear leaf or leafy bract under each branch. Leaves linear, f.rom almost filiform 

 nearly 1 line broad, the margins involute at least in the dried state, the lower to 

 ones sometimes exceeding the stem, all dilated at the base into a rather long 

 sheath. Flowers nearly sessile, solitary or in clusters of 2 or 3, terminal or 

 sessile in the forks of a loose dichotomous leafy cyme. Bracts broadly ovate, 

 thinly scarious, subtending each flower with 2 similar bracteoles immediately 

 under the perianth. Perianth-segments pale-coloured, narrow, acuminate and 

 very acute, mostly about 3 lines long, but variable in size, the inner ones rather 

 smaller than the outer. Stamens 6 or raiely only 3. Capsule oblong, shorter 

 than the perianth, the placentas usually at length detached from the valves and 

 either cohering-in a central column or ultimately separating. Seeds minute and 

 numerous, without tails. — E. Mey. in PI. Preiss. ii. 47; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 

 64 ; J. plebeius, E. Br. Prod. 259. 



Hab.: Southern localities. 



B. J. homalocaulis (smooth stems), F. v. M. ; Hook., Benth. Fl. Austr. 

 vii. 128. A small tufted pale-coloured species apparently perennial, but without 

 Creeping rhizomes. Stems rarely exceeding 6in., slender, the inflorescencence 

 but little branched. Leaves from the base of the stem very narrow and almost 

 terete, shorter than the stem. Flowers 2 to 6 together in clusters or heads 

 sessile or pedunculate towards the end of the stem with a subulate leafy bract 

 under the lowest cluster, the flowers sessile in the clusters and generally 

 divaricate, at least after flowering, clusters few to each stem. Perianth-segments 

 rigid, acutely acuminate, about 3 lines long, the inner ones rather shorter. 



