Juncus c analiculatu s, n. sp—A coarse plant Of the section 
Graminei , 3 feet or more high from a cespitose rootstock with stout 
terete stems and numerous concave or channeled leaves 2 or 3 of them 
with auricled sheaths on the stem; heads 3 to. 8-flowered on slen¬ 
der branches in a decompound rather contracted panicle; flowers 
light ereenish-red over 2 lines long, sepals of nearly equal length with 
membranaceous margins, inner acute, outer ones acuminate; sta¬ 
mens 6, two-thirds the length of the sepals, long linear red-brown 
anthers longer than the filaments ; ovary attenuated into a slender 
style bearing very long exsert stigmas, 1 celled; fruit and seed un¬ 
known.—San Bernardino Mountains at 4,000 feet alt. S. B. and W. 
F. Parish. Abundantly distinguished from the allied J. marginatus , 
witn which it has in common the brown red anthers, otherwise rare in 
the genus, by the stouter habit, the long coarse deeply channeled 
leaves, larger flowers, acute sepals, acuminate Ovary, long style and 
stigmas. - G Engelmann, 
