2621.
J U N C U S balticus.
Northern Rush.
H E X A ND R IA Monogynia.
Gen. Char. Cal. of 6 leaves. Cor. 0. Caps, of 3
cells, and 3 valves; seeds numerous, horizontal.
Spec. Char. Stem leafless, not striated. Panicle lateral,
somewhat compound, erect, lax. Leaflets
of the calyx acute, nearly equal, as long as the
elliptical and scarcely trigonal capsule. Root
much creeping.
Svn. Juncus balticus. Willd.in Magaz. Berol. 1809.
298. Meyer, Syn. June. 15. Laharpe, June, in
Mém. de la Soc. d’Hist. Nat. de Paris, t. 3.
114.
J. arcticus. Hoolc. FI. Scot. P . 1. 104. Hook, in
FI. Lond. t. 151. Sm. Engl. FI. v. 2. 163.
J. glaucus. Wahl. FI. Lapp. n. 149.
I AM happy to have an opportunity of correcting an
important error into which I have fallen in considering
the present very interesting plant, both in Flora Scotica and
in Flora Londinensis, as the Juncus arcticus. I had compared
it with a Swedish specimen from the late Dr. C.Smith,
which came to me marked J . arcticus : but that plant, as well
as ours, proves to be the Juncus balticus of Willdenow, which
maybe distinguished from the true arcticus by its taller size
and more rigid stems, by its more or less compound and lax
panicles of flowers, by their sharper calycine leaflets, and by
its more rounded capsules.
Besides the station given in Flora Scotica, namely, the
Sands of Barrie, near Dundee, where this plant was first
found by Mr. Drummond, we have now the satisfaction of
mentioning that it has been detected by the Rev. George