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equal half the length of the roundish ovate caps. : 3 inner ones 
obtuse with a membranous border. — E. B. 1614.— St. erect, 
rigid, with a very sharp rigid point, 3 — 6 feet high. Panicle 
dense, corymbose. Fr. twice as large as that of the preceding. 
— Sands on the sea-coast, rare. P. VII. VIII. E. I. 
** Barren and fertile stems subulate with sheaths at their 
bases which are either leafless or with rudimentary leaves. 
Seeds with a close testa (not ajipendaged) . 
3. effusus (L.) ; st . naked faintly striated soft ; panicle con- 
glomerate or diffuse, caps, obovate retuse not apiculate. E. B. 
836. Leers Herb. t. xiii. 2. — Height 1 — 2 feet. L. altogether 
wanting or reduced to minute slender filaments at the top of 
sheathing scales. Panicle diffuse very much branched. — fi. com- 
paclus (Leight.) ; panicle more or less dense globose. — Marshy 
ground. 0. Near Bath. P. VII. Soft Rush. 
4. J. conglomerate (L.) ; st. naked faintly striated soft, pani- 
cle conglomerate or diffuse, cajis. obovate retuse apiculate. — 
E. B. 835. Leers t. xiii. 1. — Height 1 — 2 feet. L. none or re- 
duced to minute slender filaments at the top of the sheathing 
scales. Panicle globose, dense. — (3. effusus (Leight.) ; panicle 
more or less effuse. — Marshy ground. P. VII. Common Rush. 
5. J. glaucus (Sibth.) ; st. naked deeply striated rigid, pith 
interrupted, panicle loose much branched erect, segments of pe- 
rianth lanceolate-subulate rather longer than the elliptic-oblong 
mucronate capsule. — E. B. 665. J. inflexus Leers t. xiii. 3.— 
Distinguished by its ascending diffuse panicle, longer black fr., 
rigid attenuated glaucous st., and dark sheaths. L. none or re- 
duced to minute slender filaments at the top of the sheathing 
purple scales. — Wet places. P. VII. Hard Rush. 
6. J. diffusus (Hoppe) ; st. naked finely striated rigid, pith 
continuous, panicle loose much branched erect, segments of peri- 
anth lanceolate-subulate longer than the obovate-obtuse mucronate 
capsule. — Hoppe in St. 77- 10. — Very similar to the preceding 
but quite distinct. St. green. — In wet places, rare ? Kincar- 
dine. I have not seen British specimens, but introduce it on the 
authority of Mr.W. Sonder of Hamburgh, who possesses Scottish 
specimens. P. VII. VIII. S. 
7. J. balticus (Willd.) ; st. naked very faintly striated rigid, 
pith continuous, panicle erect slightly branched, segments of 
perianth ovate-lanceolate acute, caps, elliptical scarcely trigonous 
obtuse mucronate. — E. B. S. 2621. — Root creeping widely. L. 
none or reduced to very minute points at the top of the sheathing 
scales. Distinguished from /. arcticus by its rounded not tri- 
gonous capsules, and from </. glaucus by its extensively creeping 
