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2. JUNCOIDES Adans. Fam. PL 2: 47. 17G3. 
(Luzula DC. PI. Fr. 3: 158. 1805.) 
Perennial herbs, with leaf-bearing stems, and corymbose paniculate, 
or umbelloid inflorescence. Leaf-sheaths with united margins; leaf-blades 
grass-like. Flowers bracteolate, the bractlets lacerate or denticulate; 
stamens 6; ovary l-celled, with 3 ovules; seeds three, reticulated. 
Inflorescence umbelloid. one or two flowers on each branch. 1. ,T. pilosnm. 
Inflorescence of 2 — 12 spike-like or capitate clusters. 2. J. campestre. 
1. JuNCoiDES riLosuM (L.) Kiintzc. 
Juncus pilosvs L. Sp. PI. 329. 1753. 
Luzula vernalis DC. FI. Fr. 3: IGO. 1805. 
Luzula pilosa IVilld. Enuni. PI. 393. 1809. 
Juncoulcs pilosum Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 725. 1891. 
Tufted, sometimes stoloniferous; stems erect, 2 — 4-leaved, 6 — 12 
inches high; leaf-blades 1 — 4 lines wide, flat, sometimes webbed, acumi- 
nate; inflorescence umbelloid; bract 5 — 12 lines long; pedicels filiform 
with one or two flowers; perianth 1 — 2 lines long, the parts triangular- 
ovate, acuminate, brown, the margins hyaline, twice as long as the toothed 
brackets; capsule exceeding the perianth. 
A species ranging from New Brunswick to Alaska, south to New York, 
North Carolina, Michigan and Oregon, Type locality: ‘'Hahitat in 
Europae sylvis.’’ 
This species was reported as occurring in moist sandy soil at Wild 
Cat Den in Muscatine county by Barnes, Reppert and Miller. 
Barnes, W. D. ; Reppert, Fred ; and Miller, A. A. Proceedings of the Daven- 
port Academy of Sciences, Yol. 8, p. 203, 1900. 
Cratty, R. I. The Iowa Naturalist, Yol. 1, No. 4, p. 74, October, 1905. 
2. .lUNCOIDES CAMPESTEE (L.) KuntZC. 
Juncus campcsins L. Sp. Pi. 329. 1753. 
Luzula campestris DC. FI. Fr. 3 : 101. .1805. 
Juncoulcs campestre Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 2 : 722. 1891. 
Stems densely tufted, erect, 4 — 20 inches high, 2 — 4-leaved; leaf- 
blades flat, 1 — 3 lines across, sparingly webbed when young, apex bluntish, 
gland-like; inflorescence umbelloid; lower bracts leaf-like, branches 
straight, unequal; spikes dense, oblong to short cylindric; floral bracts 
ovate, acuminate; bractlets similar, but smaller, fimbriate at the apex; 
perianth 1 — 2 lines long, brown, the parts lanceolate-ovate and acuminate; 
capsule broadly oblong or obovoid;, seed with an oblong body. 
A woodland species ranging pretty generally throughout the United 
States and British America. Also found in Europe and Asia. Type 
locality: "‘Haditat in Europe pascuis sicci 07 nl)us.” 
The only Iowa specimen in the writer’s herbarium was collected by 
R. I. Cratty in Emmet countjq June 9, 1882. The species was reported 
by Professor Arthur from Lee county; by Barnes, Reppert and Miller 
from* Muscatine county; and by Cratty from Dubuque county. 
Arthur, .1. C. Contributions to the Flora of Iowa, p. 32, 1870. 
Upham, Warren. Catalogue of the Flora of Minnesota, p. 148, 1884. 
Barnes, W. D. ; Reppert, Fred ; and Miller, A. A. Proceedings of the Daven- 
port Academy of Sciences, Yol. 8, p. 203, 1900. 
*Cratty, R. I. Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Sciences, 1903, p. 215, 
1904 ; The Iowa Naturalist, Yol. I, No. 4, p. 74, October, 1905. 
