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longioribus; ovario lineari-lanceolato in stylum perbrevem 
sensim abeunte, stigmatibus exsertis; capsula obtuse triangu- 
lata pyramidata acutata atro-rubente lucida semitriloeulari 
longe exserta; seminibus lineari-oblongis multo-lineatis longe 
caudatis.— J. erythrocarpus , Chapm. olim in sehed. # 
South-eastern and southern States, from South Carolina, 
Curtis , Ravenely Hb. n. 89, to Florida, Chapman , Hb. n. 90, 
Alabama, Bigelow , and Louisiana, Hale ; fl. Sept. & fr. Oct.— ^ 
Similar to the next but with much smaller flowers, long pro¬ 
truding pyramidal capsule, slender stamens inconstant in 
number and larger seeds. Rigid cespitose stems “from a 
thick and creeping rhizoma” (Chapman); panicles in most of 
the specimens before me 2-6 inches in length and quite con¬ 
tracted, the principal branch of the panicle being often strict¬ 
ly erect and quite elongated,—in others more open; fruit- 
heads 2-4 lines in diameter, with 2-4 or 5 flowers; flowers 
If lines long, with very unequal strongly nerved sepals; 
capsule much longer, sometimes twice as long as flowers, 
regularly pyramidal from an oval base, deep red brown or al¬ 
most black. The number of stamens is quite variables, but 
more frequently 8 than 6; in 40 flowers of eight different spe¬ 
cimens, from all the localities mentioned above, I have found 
only 4 with 6, 9 with 5, 11 with 4, and 16 with 3 stamens, J 
and in no instance did all the flowers of one plant exhibit the ^ ] ? 
same number of stamens. Seeds, without the appendages, 
0.45-0.50 line long, their length being equal to 2| or 2} diam¬ 
eters ; appendages straw-colored or white, upper one mostly 
as long or longer than the seed, lower one stouter and short¬ 
er, as is usually the case in the appendages of Juncus seeds; 
whole seeds with the tails 1-lf lines long; striae of seed very 
numerous and close.—This may possibly be the same as J. tri- 
gorkfcarpus , Steud. Glum. 2, p. 308, of which I have not been 
able to obtain a specimen or a satisfactory description. 
46. J. asper, n. sp. . caulibus (bipedalibus et ultra) caespi- 
tosis teretibus cum loliis papilloso-asperatis; paniculae compo¬ 
site seu decomposite ramis ereeto-patulis; capitulis pauci- 
(2-6)floris; sepalis late laneeolato-subulatis rigidis multiner- 
viis levibus, interioribus longioribus stamina 6 duplo super- ■ ^ 
antibus; antheris late linearibus filamentum late subulatum 
fere equantibus; ovario lanceolato in stylum eo breviorem 
abeunte, stigmatibus exsertis ; capsula ovato-oblonga sursum 
triangulari rostrata rufo- vel vireseenti-fusca lucida semitri- 
loculari sepala vix excedente; seminibus majusculis ovato- 
oblongis costato-lineolatis longe caudatis. 
Thus far only in New Jersey, where it was found many 
years ago, at Quakerbridge, Pickering in Hb. Ac. Philad., 
Durand/ re-discovered within the last few years “in a sphag- 
nous swamp at Griffith’s, 6^ miles south-east of Philadelphia, 
