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89. JTJNCACE^. 
1. Eeiocatj'loit Linn. Pipewort. 
1. H. septanguldre (With.) ; scapes stiiate exceeding the cel- 
lular compressed subidate glabrous 1., fl. 4-cleft hairj' at the end 
as well as the scales, stam. 4, caps. 2-ceUed. — E. B. 733. — Roots 
of many white iointed fibres. St. varying in height according 
to the depth of the water, usually with 6 or 8 rarely 7 or 10 
angles, each corresponding with a bundle of vessels surrounding 
a central bundle. Fertile fl. 4-parted nearly to the base ; 2 late- 
ral di'i'isions keeled, compressed, blunt, fringed, black. Each fl. 
with a broad blunt black scale in front which is shorter and 
broader than it. — Peaty pools in Skye and a few of the neigh- 
bouring islands. Connemara. P. ^'III. S. I. 
Order T.XXXDC. JTJNCACE^. 
Perianth more or less glume-like, 6-parted. Stam. 6, on the 
base of the seg^ments : or 3, opposite to the outer series. Anth. 
2-celled. Ovary 1 — 3-celled, superior. Ovules 1, 3, or many 
in each cell. Style 1, stigmas usually 3. Fr. capsular, 3-valved, 
loculicidal, sometimes not biu-sting. EnibiTO subeylindrical, very 
minute, within fiiin albumen, near the liile. — For fig. of the 
genera see G. F. G. Moyiocot. ii. 28, 29, 30. 
1. NABTiTECirM. Perianth partly coloured, of 6 linear-lan- 
ceolate persistent leaves. Filaments woolly. Style imdivided. 
Stigma simple, blunt. Caps, pyramidal, 3-celled, 3-valved. 
Placenta e.vtending only a short distance up inner edge of dis- 
sepiment. Seeds with a long filiform appendage at each end. 
2. Juxcus. PeriaiHh glume-like, 6-leaved. Filaments gla- 
brous. Style undivided. Stigmas 3, filiform. Caps. 3- 
ceUed, 3-valved. Seeds attached to the inner edge of the 
dissepiments. — L. mostly not flat. 
3. LuzuLA. Caps. 1-celled, 3-valved, without dissepiments. 
Seeds 3, at the base of the capsule. Otherwise like Juncus. 
— L. flat, gi-ass-like. 
1. NAETHE'cmi Huch. Bog Asphodel. 
1. N. ossif'ragum (Huds.) ; 1. swordshaped, pedicels with 1 
bract at the base and another above their middle, perianth ex- 
ceeding the stam. and much falling short of the caps. — E. B. 
53.5. St. 78. 3. R. x. 421.— St. 6—8 in. high, slightly leafy, 
decumbent and rooting below. L. mostly in radical 2-ranked 
tufts, half the height of the stem. Cluster continuous. Fl. 
bright yeUow.— Turfy bogs. P. VI. E. S. I. 
