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Juncus.'] xcvii. juncace^e. 465 
Frequent in moist watery places, especially such as have been over- 
flowed ill winter. ©. 8. — Stem 4 — 6 inches high. Leaves few, 
slender, only one on the stem, generally near the middle. The divi- 
sions or ramifications of the stem, as they are called, belong more 
properly to the panicle, at the base of which are foliaceous bracteas. 
Whole plant very pale-coloured. Flowers green, with white mem- 
branous margins to the sepals. 
***** Leaves all radical. Floivers terminal. 
]■ Seeds without an appendage. 
17. J. sqmrrdsus L. ( Heath R.’)', leaves setaceous rigid 
grooved, panicle terminal elongale compound, capsules ellipti- 
cal-ovate. E. B. t. 933. 
Moors and heaths, abundant. It. 6, 7. — Whole plant exceedingly 
rigid, 6 inches to 1 foot high. Leaves subsecund, about half as long 
as the scape. Sepals ovato-lanceolate, glossy brown with a pale line 
down the middle, scariose at the edges. 
18. J. capitutusWe igel (capitate R.) ; leaves filiform (soft) 
plane or grooved above, beads of flowers sessile terminal 
shorter than the setaceous bractea, sepals ovato-lanceolate 
acuminate-aristate twice as long as the truncate shortly mucro- 
nate capsule. E. B. S. t. ‘2644. J. supinus Bicli. J. ericeto- 
rum /3. y. DC. 
Jersey : Mr. Hudson. 0. 5 — 7. — Plant 2 — 4 inches high, 
flaccid. Leaves entirely radical, about half the length of the scape, 
erect. Heads rather large in proportion to the size of the plant, of 
8 — 6 sessile flowers, occasionally proliferous. Stamens usually 3, 
sometimes 6. This species is well distinguished by the setaceous 
inclined bractea (with its sheathing membranous base), which is 
longer than the heads of flowers, and by the acuminate-aristate 
sepals. 
ft Seeds with an appendage at each end. 
19. J. biglumis L. (two-floivered R.) ; leaves linear-subjilate 
compressed (not channelled) gradually dilated into the sheath- 
ing base, flowers 2 unilateral, one of them stalked mostly 
shorter than the foliaceous involucre, capsule turbinate retuse 
rather longer than the obtuse sepals. E. B. t. 898. 
Boggy places on the Highland mountains, not unfrequent on the 
Breadalbane range, but rare in other parts of Scotland, y.. 7, 8. 
— Hoot fibrous. Stein 2 — 4 inches high, growing not in tufts, but 
scattered : a much rarer species than the following, small specimens 
of which have often been mistaken for it. “ Leaves with distant 
trahsverse partitions within, but not longitudinally divided:” Mr. IV. 
Wilson. 
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