12. JUNCEiE. 105. Juncus. 
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8. Juncus compressus. Flattened junk. 
Culm not branched, leafy, compressed; leaves linear, 
edge incurved ; capside roundish, longer than the perigo- 
nium ; panicle terminal, shorter than the bractese. 
Juncus parvus cum pericarpiis rotundis, Rail Syn. 433, 10. 
Juncus bulbosus, Lin. S. P. 466. 
Juncus compressus, Jacq. Vindob. 235. 
Round fruited rush. Russia water-grass. 
Moist fields; perennial; July. 
Root creeping; culm upright, 12 in. high, simple;, base 
cylindrical ; tip compressed, smooth, leafy ; leaves linear, 
shorter than the culm ; sheaths cut, edge and tip scariose ; 
panicle above decompound, erect, many-flowered ; floral 
leaves upright, shortly sheathing ; lowermost longer than 
the corymbus ; flower single, at the division ; sepales equal, 
brown, obtuse, shorter than the capsule, edge scariose; 
capsule round, very obtuse, mucronate. 
9. Juncus ccenosus. Mud junk* 
Culm simple, leafy ; leaves bristlelike, channelled ; capsule 
obovate, obtuse, the length of the perigonium ; panicle ter- 
minal, nearly simple, longer than the bracteae. 
Juncus ceenosus, Bicheno T.L.S. 12,309. 
Mud rush. 
Salt marshes ; perennial ; July and August. 
Darker green than the preceding ; leaves stiffer than it ; 
edge of the inner sepales scariose ; capsule rather one-sided. 
10. Juncus lufonius. Toad junk. 
Culm 2-forked, leafy ; leaves angular ; flowers solitary, 
sessile ; perigonium bristlelike ; sepales unequal ; outer twice 
the length of the capsule. 
Juncus palustris humilior erectus, Raii Syn. 434, 12. 
Gramen junceum, Ger. em. 4. 
Gramen junceum parvurn sive Holosteum Matthioli et Gramen bufonium 
Flandrorum, Park. 1190. 
Juncus bufonius, Lin. S. P. 466. 
Toad rush. Toad grass. 
Damp watery places ; annual ; June to August. 
Root fibrous, tufted ; culm below simple, above forked, 
round, leafy, 12 in. high ; leaves shorter than the culm, 
slender, pale green, acute, upright ; sheaths angular, edges 
whitish; panicle 2-forked, long ; flowers solitary, 1-rowed, 
remote, lateral, and at the foot of the branches; sepales 
blackish green, ribless, edge scariose ; the outer keeled ; 
inner broad, ovate, flat ; capsules elliptical, obtuse, half as 
long as the perigonium. 
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