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THE EUSH FAMILY. 



9. Toad Rush. Juncus bufonius, Linn. (Fig. 1051.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 802.) 



A small, pale- coloured annual, with 

 numerous stems, often forming dense 

 tufts, from 1 or 2 to 6 or 8 inches high, 

 branching and flowering almost from the 

 base. Leaves chiefly radical, short and 

 slender. Flowers solitary or rarely 2 or 

 3 together along the branches, with the 

 lower bracts leaf-like but short. Pe- 

 rianth-segments narrow and pointed, 

 above 2 lines long, of a pale green, with 

 scarious edges, 3 outer ones longer than 

 the 3 others. Capsule oblong, shorter 

 than the perianth. 



In wet places, widely spread over the 

 greater part of the world. Abundant in 

 Britain. Fl. all summer. 



Fig. 1054. 



10. Capitate Rush. Juncus capitatus, Weig. (Fig. 1055.) 

 (Eng. Bot. Suppl. t. 2644.) 



A slender, tufted annual, 2 or 3 

 inches high, resembling the smaller spe- 

 cimens of the toad It., but the flowers 

 are smaller, collected in terminal clus- 

 ters of 6 or 8, with very rarely a second 

 or third cluster lower down. Stamens 

 usually 3. 



In sandy situations, in western and 

 southern Europe, and again in the 

 Netherlands, north Germany, and south- 

 ern Scandinavia, but in central Europe 

 scarcely eastward of the Hhine. In the 

 British Isles only recorded from Jersey, 

 but is not unlikely to be found in the 

 southern counties of England. FL 

 Fi#. 1055. summer. 



