near Coleshill : Rev. W.T. Bree. — Worcestershire; Feckenham : Mr. Pur- 
ton. Boggy places near Malvern Hills : Mr. E. Lees. Finny Rough near 
Stone: Mr. W. G. Perry. — Yorkshire; In Terrington Cor near Castle 
Howard: Mr. R. Teesdale. Near Rotherham: Mr. L. Langley. — About 
Berwick-upon-Tweed. — Plentiful in some parts of SCOTLAND. — Frequent 
in IRELAND. 
Perennial. — Flowers in June, July, and August. 
Root fibrous. Leaves all radical, numerous, from 6 to 12 inches 
long, upright, fleshy, strap-shaped, semicylindrical, slightly chan- 
nelled on the upper side, smooth, sheathing and membranous at the 
base. Scape f stalk J solitary, from 6 to 12 inches high, simple, 
naked, round, or slightly angular, and terminating in a loose, up- 
right spike or cluster of small, greenish flowers , on short upright 
peduncles, without bracteas. Anthers nearly sessile, 3 within the 
sepals, and 3 within the petals. Fruit 3-celled, formed of 3 strap- 
shaped, 1-seeded, indehiscent capsules united by a common recep- 
tacle, each capsule separating at its base, and suspended by its 
extremity, in this state giving the fruit a strong resemblance to a 
3-barbed Arrow-head. — “ Mr. W. Wilson finds that the leaves, when 
bruised, yield a very fetid smell, and that the root, under certain 
circumstances at least, is a creeping one ; sending out jointed, scaly 
runners, with comparatively large, egg-shaped, shortly acuminated 
bulbs at the extremity. These bulbs at the end of the jointed 
runners have very much the appearance of a scorpion’s tail.” Dr. 
Hooker. — Plants confined in a small compartment of the aquarium 
in the Oxford Botanic Garden, produced these bulbs in abundance : 
(see the plate). — Linnaeus remarks, that goats, sheep, horses, and 
swine eat this plant, and that cows are extremely fond of it. 
The few plants which compose the Natural Order Juncagi'neas, 
are monocotyledonous and herbaceous, and grow in bogs or moist 
places. Their leaves are sword-shaped, with parallel veins, their 
flowers inconspicuous, and produced in naked spikes, or clusters. 
Their sepals and petals are herbaceous, rarely wanting. Their 
stamens are 6 in number. Their ovaries superior, either 3 or 6, ad- 
hering firmly to each other. Their ovules are solitary, or 2 approach- 
ing at their base, upright. Their pericarpiums (see Lindl. Introd. 
to Bot. p. 162) are dry and indehiscent, each containing 1 or 2 
seeds, which are upright, and without albumen, their embryo having 
the same direction as the seed, with a lateral cleft for the emission 
of the plumula. See Lindl. Syn, p. 252. 
