12. JUNCEiE. 105. Juncus. 
165 
Pl, end . ph . 
i?oo£ fibrous; czz/m bulbose at bottom, leafy, slender, 
branching above ; branches divaricated ; leaves crowded, 
bristlelike, smooth, cellular ; cells in a double row, alter- 
nating ; heads 3-flowered, lateral and terminal, sessile ; 
hractece small, scariose, shorter than the flowers ; sepales 
equal, lanceolate, pointed, 3-ribbed ; edge scariose, dark 
brown red, keel green ; capsule acute, 3-sided, obtuse, opake, 
rather longer than the perigonium. 
/3. viviparus. Capsule gemmiparous, hractece lengthened 
out like the leaves. » 
Juncus uliginosus, With. Bot. Arr. 348. 
14. Juncus supinus. Downlying junk . 
Leaves channelled, threadshape ; head 3-flowered, ter- 
minal, facing one way ; hractece bristlelike, leafy; capside 
nearly as long as the perigonium. 
Juncus supinus, Hoff. Germ. 125. 
Juncus capit itus, Weigel Obs. Bot. 28* 
Schcenus minimus, Symons Syn. 197. 
Juncu-; verticillatus j8, Willd. S. P. 2, 212. 
j Oivarf rush. 
Bogs; perennial; July. 
Root fibrous, bulbose at bottom ; culm erect, simple, 3 in. 
high ; leaves threadshape, channelled, cellular ; flowers 
3 together, terminal, clustered ; hractece bristlelike, one or 
more, frequently leaflike, longer than the flowers, and 
forcing them on one side ; lobes of the perigonium lanceo- 
late, chesnut colour; capsule oblong, rather obtuse, 3-sided. 
c. Leaves jointed, 
15. Juncus fluitans. Floating junk. 
Leaves cylindrical, bristlelike, rather nodosely jointed ; 
heads 3-flowered ; flowers sessile ; culm bulbose, slender^ 
rooting ; capsule obtuse, longer than the perigonium. 
Juncus uliginosus y, Bicheno T. L. S. 316. 
Juncus fluitans, La March Encyc. Method. 3,270. 
Juncus uliginosus, FI. Dan. 817. 
Juncus subverticillatus, Hojfm. Germ. 3, 166, 
Watery places ; perennial ; July. 
Very like isolepis fluitans; culm slender, feeble, floating; 
leaves long, threadshape, slender ; panicle spreading, 3 or 
4-flowered, subproliferous. 
