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J UNCUS coenosus.
Mud Rush.
HEXANDRIA Monogynia.
Gen. Char. Perianth 6-Ieaved, glumaceous. Stigmas
3. Capsule 3-celled, 3-valved, many-seeded.
Spec. Char. Stem simple, leafy. Leaves linear,
channelled. Panicle cymose, terminal, few-flowered,
longer than the bractea. Capsule obovate,
of the length of the rather obtuse calyx.
Syn. J. coenosus. Bicheno in T r.o f L. Soc.v .12.309.
Smith Engl. FI. v. 2. 166.
J. bottnicus. JVahl. FI. Lap. 82. t. 5 ?
J. bulbosus (3. Hook. FI. Scot. 107. JVahl. FI.
Suec. 215 ?
J. compressus (3. Hook. Brit. FI. 163.
J. bulbosus. FI. Dan. 431. Ehrh. Calam. 18.
A l t h o u g h this species is not capable of being well
defined, and doubts may still be entertained whether it be
not a variety of J . compressus ( J .bulbosus, Linn.), yet, as it
is acknowledged by many botanists, and has been published
as distinct by several, we have ventured to give it a place in
the Supplement to Engl. Bot. It is a maritime species, found
abundantly in muddy places over which the tide occasionally
flows, and differs from J . compressus in the darker colour of
the whole plant, and especially in the more linear and wiry
nature of the leaves. The panicle is more rigid and less
divided, and usually overtops the bractea. The calyx leaves
are all oblong, nearly equal, and of a dark chocolate brown.
Capsule of the length of the calyx, blunt, dark shining cho