April, 1913.] 
Liliales of Ohio. 
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15. Juncus canadensis J. Gay. Canada Rush. Leaves 
nodose, basal leaves disappearing before flowering time; sheathes 
with auricles, inflorescence in terminal, crowded heads, with 5-50 
flowers to the head; stamens 3; capsule mucronate, reddish brown, 
longer than the perianth; seeds with a definite tail. Cuyahoga, 
Licking, Auglaize, Madison, Geauga. 
1G. Juncus scirpoides Lam. Scirpus-like Rush. Leaves 
septate, blade of the uppermost leaf longer than the sheath; 
inflorescence in densely flowered heads; stamens 3; capsule atten¬ 
uate, exceeding the calyx; seeds blunt. Erie County. 
2. Juncoides Adans. 
Perennial plants, glabrous or hairy, with grass-like leaves and 
closed leaf sheathes. Inflorescence an umbel, panicle or corymb; 
flowers with bractlets; stamens 6; ovulary unilocular, three- 
seeded. 
1. Flowers occurring singly or in twos at the ends of the branches of the 
inflorescence. J. pilosum. 
2. Flowers occurring in glomerules. J. campestre. 
1. Juncoides pilosum (L.) Ktz. Hairy Wood-rush. A 
tufted herb, often stoloniferous. Stems erect, 2-4 leaved, 6-12 
in. high; leaf blades flat, acuminate; inflorescence an umbel, each 
pedicel 1 or 2 flowered; perianth brown with hyalin margins; seeds 
hooked. Lucas, Cuyahoga, Trumbull, Mahoning, Hocking. 
2. Juncoides campestre (L.) Ktz. Common Wood-rush. 
Tufted herb, 4-20 in high; stems 2-4 leaved; leaf blades blunt, 
pubescent, inflorescence an umbel, lower bracts leaf-like, acumi¬ 
nate; flowers brown, capsule obovoid or broadly oblong. In 
woods. General. 
Xyridaceae. Yellow-eyed-grass Family. 
Tufted, rush-like herbs with narrow, two-ranked leaves and 
leafless scapes. Flowers in heads, bisporangiate, mostly yellow, 
solitary and sessile in the axils of bracts; petals 3; sepals 3, unequal, 
one large and membranous and 2 small and keeled; stamens 6 or 
3; ovulary tri-or unilocular; ovules orthotropous; fruit a capsule; 
endosperm mealy. 
Xyris L. Yellow-eyed-grass. 
Perennial herbs with the flowers single in the axils of coriaceous 
scale-like bracts, which together form a head. Stamens 3 fertile 
and 3 sterile; capsule unilocular, many seeded. 
1. Xyris flexuosa Muhl. Slender Yellow-eyed-grass. An 
herb 5-20 in. high, with a slender, straight or slightly twisted 
scape. Leaves flat, becoming twisted; inflorescence globose or 
oblong or obtuse; lateral sepals linear and fringed with short 
hairs on the wingless keel. In bogs. Portage, Geauga. 
