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dilated and membranous at the base. Bracteas two or three, leafy, erect. 
Panicle of three or four very unequal, rather spreading, branches; the 
larger ones also forked; the upper part oP all racemose. FI. nearly 
sessile, pale. Calyx-leaves lanceolate, taper-pointed, acute, green, three- 
ribbed, striated, with narrow, white, membranous edges. Caps . pale 
brown, polished, oval, or slightly obovate, with a minute point, consider¬ 
ably shorter than the calyx ; valves very slightly emarginate. Seeds very 
numerous, pellucid, amber-coloured. 
Slender Spreading Rush. J. gracilis. E. Bot. Bicheno. J. tenuis. 
Hook. Scot. J. Gesneri. Sm. Eng. FI. Elevated pastures in Scotland. 
Hickson. By a rivulet in marshy ground, among the mountains of Clova, 
Angus-shire, very rare. Mr. G. Hon. P. July. E.) 
(J. bufo'nius. Stem leafy: leaves angular, channelled: panicle 
forked, racemose, longer than the bracteas: calyx-leaves lan¬ 
ceolate, taper-pointed, membranous, two-ribbed, longer than the 
oblong capsule. 
Dicks. H. S .— FI. Dan. 1098— E. Bot. 802— Leers 13, 8— H. Ox. viii. 9. 14. 
Ger. Em. 4. 4— Park. 1190. 8— Barr. 263.1.2. and 264— Rose 2. 5. 6 —and 
Pet. Gaz. 51. 7, in its seedling state — Park. 1270. 11. 
Root fibres downy. Herb generally pale green, though sometimes reddish. 
Stems numerous, crowded, three inches to afoot or more in height, some¬ 
what branched, leafy, especially at the lower part. Leaves linear, 
narrow, acute, dilated at the base. Bracteas , very slender, erect, much 
shorter than the panicle , which has many greatly elongated branches. 
FI. nearly sessile, mostly solitary, erect, pale and silvery, with two or 
three very white pellucid bracteas at their base. Calyx-leaves green at 
the back, the margins, beyond the ribs broad, membranous, shining. 
Caps, elliptic-oblong, triangular, reddish-brown, bluntish, generally much 
shorter than the calyx , and always of a much narrower figure than in 
any of the foregoing. 
Bicheno observes that the solitary flowers, and long silky calyx, sufficiently 
mark this species : like others of its congeners, it is occasionally gemmi- 
parous. Smith states the young plant, in germination, to elevate the seed 
considerably above ground, so as to look like a moss with capsules, as 
represented by Mr. Rose, and preserved in Linn. Herb., also vid. Weig. 
Obs. 36. 2. 7. where it is described as a Cryptogamic production. 
Toad Rush Welsh: Brwynen y liyffant. Common in marshy ground, 
or wet gravelly heaths. ’ A. July—Aug. E.) 
(J. uligino'sus. Stem leafy, bulbous at the base : leaves bristle-shaped, 
channelled: heads lateral and terminal, about three-flowered: 
capsule obtuse, rather longer than the calyx. 
E. Bot. 801. 
Stems two to six inches high, slightly leafy, somewhat branched. Leaves 
setaceous, grooved. Greville remarks, “ the Jlowers are by no means 
constant to three, nor are they always sessile, some having penduncles as 
long as the capsule. The length of the j perianth varies in its relation to 
the capsule, and the bulbous base of the stem is sometimes scarcely to be 
traced in the long proliferous variety, which is the most common. Its 
blunt capsule separates it from J. lampocarpus and acutiflorus; and 
besides the diagnostic marks mentioned under J. supinus and subverticil - 
latus, the opake chocolate-coloured calyx and capsule are very constant 
characters.” Bicheno. E.) 
