Juncus melanocarpus. Mx. Am. 1. p. 190. Ph. Am. 1. p. 238. Rich. App, p. 11.—L.
parviflora. Desv. (Juncus, Retz.) Bong. Veget. Sitch. p. 49.—a. floribus fuscis, capsulis
intense badiis.—3- floribus capsulisque pallidis.
Hab. Canada (Mx.), and throughout the woody country to the prairies of the Rocky Mountains. Dr
Richardson. Labrador. D r Morrison. N. W. America, from the Columbia to Kotzebue’s Sound.
Beechey. Bongard. Douglas. D r Scouler.—The pale flowered and pale fruited var, is found abundantly
at the Columbia River, but is not confined to the west coast. I have received the same state from the
White Hills of New Hampshire. Indeed very many of the Luzula and Junci vary in the same manner.
2. L. pilosa. Willd.— Torr. Am. 1. p. 365.—Juncus. L .—Muhl. Gram. p. 200. E.
Bot. t. 736.—Luzula vernalis. De Cand.—3- floribus pallidis.
Hab. Canada (Mrs Sheppard), to the Saskatchewan. Dr Richardson. Douglas.
3. L . campestris. Desv.—Torr. Am. 1. p. 365.—Juncus. L .—E. Bot. t. 672. Mich.
Am. 1. p. 190. Ph. Am. 1. p. 238.—ct. vulgaris; florum glomerulis rotundatis densis
cymoso-paniculatis intense fuscis.—/3. pallescens s florum glomerulis rotundatis densis
cymoso-paniculatis pallidis. L. pallescens. Wahl.—y. congesta; floribus dense capitatis
fuscis, capitulo solitario.—L. congesta. Lej.—E. Bot. Suppl. t. 2718.
Hab. Woody and barren country. Dr Richardson.—«. Newfoundland. Mr Cormack. New Brunswick.
Mr Kendal. Kotzebue’s Sound, Behring’s Straits. Beechey.—A Lake Winipeg, to the Saskatchewan,
and prairies and Lake of the Woods, Rocky Mountains. Drummond.—y. Bear Lake. D r Richardson.
4. L . comosa (Meyer, in Reliq. Hcenk. Fasc. 2. p. 145); foliis planis pilosis, floribus
spicatis distichis, spicis elongatis pedunculatis corymboso-paniculatis rarius subsessilibus,
perianlhii laciniis lanceolatis acuminato-subulatis interioribus brevioribus capsulam
triquetro-ellipticam acutiusculam vix asquantibus.—L. campestris? Bong. Veget. Sitcha,
p. 49.
Hab. N. W. America. Nutka Sound and Port Mulgrave. Scenke. From the Rocky Mountains to the
Pacific Ocean. Douglas. D r Scouler. Bongard f—This seems to take the place of L. campestris on the
west side of the Rocky Mountains. The elongated spikes of flowers, sometimes compact, sometimes remote,
'give the appearance of a Carex to this Luzula. I have from the White Mountains, New Hampshire, a
var. of the pale-flowered L. campestris, very nearly approaching this, which nevertheless seems to be a good
species.
5. L . spicata. Desv.— Torr. Am. 1. p. 366.—Juncus. L .—E . Bot. t. 1176.
Hab. Kotzebue’s Sound, Behring’s Straits. Beechey. Rocky Mountains. Drummond. Labrador. Dr
Morrison.
6. L . hyperborea (Br. Melv. Isl. PI. p. clxxxiii); spicis multiflorissubumbellatis pedunculatis
sessilibusque (nunc omnibus sessilibus), bractea umbella foliacea; partialibus
omnibus fimbriatis, capsulis obtusis perianthium acutum subsequantibus, caruncula basilari
seminis obsoleta, foliis planis. Br.—a. major; foliis angustioribus, bracteis partialibus
insigniter albo-fimbriatis (an forma L. campestr. ?). Hook, in Parry’s 2d Voy. App, p. 405.
—L. hyperborea. Br. 1. c.— L. campestris. Br. Spitzb. App. p, 75.—Juncus arcuatus.
Hook, in Scoresb. Greenl. App. p. 410.—Juncus campestris. Solandr. in Phipps' Voy.—
3. minor; foliis latioribus, bracteis partialibus vix fimbriatis. Hook. 1. c.
Hab. «. and fi. Arctic Sea-shore. Dr Richardson; and Arctic Islands. Sir E . Parry, &c.—A Most
elevated of the Rocky Mountains. Drummond.—The first variety, as I have stated in the Appendix to Sir
Edward Parry s second voyage, is perhaps too near L. campestris; and the second var. almost seems to
unite the first with the following; yet I think they are distinct.
7. L . arcuata (Hook. FI. Lond. N. S. t. 153); foliis canaliculatis pilosis (pilis saepe
obsoletis), panicula subumbellata, floribus glomeratis, glomerulis 3-5-floris, pedunculis
nutantibus, bracteis inembranaceis fimbriatis, capsula ovato-globosa sepalis lato-lanceo-
latis breviori. Hook. inE . Bot. Suppl. t. 26. Cham, et Schlecht. Linncea, 3. p. 375. Hook,
et Arn. in Bot. of Beech, p. 131.—3» major ; spithamaea et ultra.
Hab. N. W. America. Kotzebue’s Sound. Chamisso. Beechey. Summit of Mount Rainier, (var. /3.)
Tolmie. Summits of the Rocky Mountains. Drummond.—The Mount Rainier specimens are much larger
than our European L. arcuata, and than that from the Rocky Mountains; and the leaves are broader, and
the flowers deeper brown; they seem to connect the species with L. spadicea.
,T 2. JUNCUS. De Cand.
1. J. arcticus (Willd.); repens-aphyllus, scapo tereti laevi opaco rigidiusculo apice
pungente, florum fasciculo laterali sessili, perianthii laciniis ovato-lanceolatis acutis
capsula elliptica trigona mucronata brevioribus. Svensk.Bot. t. 479./. 5.—J. compressus.
3- Hoenkei. Meyer in Herb. Hook, et in Reliq. Hank. Fasc. 2. p. 141.—J. Hcenkei. Meyer
Syn. June. p. 10.—3- gracilis; floribus subterminalibus paucis 1-3. J. platycaulos.
(H. B. K.j (3. aphyllus. E. Meyer in Herb, nostr.
Hab. Arctic Sea-coast. D r Richardson. Point Mulgrave, in Behring’s Straits. Ranke.—£. At a great
elevation on the Rocky Mountains. Drummond.—My specimens have been named J. compressus (H. B. K.),
A Hcenkei of Meyer, by the learned Meyer himself; but they correspond so exactly with the true J. arcticus,
from Lapland, and Iceland, and Greenland, that I cannot entertain a doubt of this being the same. As it is a
very arctic or very alpine species, I have omitted one of the two stations given by Hcenke, his “ Nutka-Sund
vel Portu Mulgrave."—A has very few flowers to each slender which thus seems to form a bractea. culm, and those generally near the apex,
2. J. Balticus (Willd.) ; repens aphyllus, sbapo tereti le n opaco rigido apice pungente,
floribus panic ulatis, panicula brevi laterali, perianthii laciniis subasqualibus ovato-
lanceolatis acutis longitudine capsulae ellipticse mucronata;. Hook, in E. Bot. Suppl. t.
2621— J. arcticus. Hook. FI. Lond. N. S. t. 151. (non Willd.)^-J. compressus. (H .B .K .)
Cham. inLinnaa, 6. p. 369. et in Herb, nostr. (non Jacq.)—J. complanaius.. Schult.—
ft. hum; panicula bi-triunciali valde ramosa laxa.— J. glaucus. Rich. App. p. 11.
Hab. Unalaschka. Chamisso. N. W. America. Menzies. Saskatchewan River, near the mountains.
Douglas. Slave Lake. Dr Richardson.—H. Throughout Canada to the Saskatchewan. Labrador. Dr
Morrison.—A taller and more harsh and rigid plant than the preceding, with the fascicles of flowers on
branched peduncles, so as to constitute a panicle— This, which is also Chamisso’s J. compressus, H. B. K.
(Herb, nostr.), is unquestionably the same plant as the J. Balticus of England and Sweden— The IS. is a
very remarkable variety, with a much larger and looser panicle, and remote flowers. . It does not seem to