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J U N C U S glaucus.
H a r d Ru JIi.
H E X A N D R IA Monogynia.
Gen. Char. Cal. of 6 leaves, permanent. Cor. none.
Cap/, fuperior, of 3 valves, with one or three
cells. Seeds feveral. Stigmas 3.
Spec. Char. Stem naked, ttraight, glaucous. Panicle
lateral, upright. Capfule elliptical, acute.
Syn. Juncus glaucus. Sibth. 1 1 3 . Sm. F I. B rit. 3 7 5 .
J . eflufus /3. Hudf. 149.
J . inflexus. With. 34 5 . Hull. j$ .R e Ib . 1 4 1 . Abbot. 78.
J . acutus. R a ii Syn. 4 3 2 .
N O T uncommon in wet paftures, or on moift watte places
by the tides of roads, flowering in July.
The roots are perennial, creeping, black. Stems about a
foot and half high, upright, naked, rigid and very tough, round,
floated, glaucous; tapering to a tharp point; clothed at the
bale with brown thining theathing fcales. Leaves like the ftem,
but thorter, and perhaps rather to be efteemed barren ftems
than real leaves. Panicle lateral, folitary, about half way from
the root to the fummit, much branched, fpreading upwards.
Leaves of the calyx awlfhaped, ftriated. Stamina thorter than
the calyx, with bright yellow anther». Capfule elliptical,
fharp-pointed, brown, polithed.
The glaucous colour and hard rigid texture readily diftinguifh
this from the two more common rufhes J. conglomeratus and
effufus; yet Linnaeus, as well as Hudfon, confounded it with the
latter. If no other mark were fufficient, the cjjuj'us may always
be known from all our other Junci, by having only three fta-
mina; an obfervation of Leers, which we have hitherto found
invariably irue,