JUNCUS filiformis.
Leaji RuJIi.
aEXANDRiA Monogytiia•
Gen. Char. Cal, of 6 leaves, permanent. Cor* none.
Capf. fu peri or, of 3 valves, with t or 3 cells. Seeds
feveral. Stigmas 3.
Spec.- Char. Stem naked, tbread-thaped, drooping-.
Panicle lateral, nearly fimple, fubtended by a
bradtea. Capfules roundifh.
Syn. Juncns filiformis. Linn, Sp. P L 465. Sm. F I.
B rit. 377. Spied. 2. t. 3. Hudf. 149. With. 346.
Hull. 73. Dickf. D r. P L 32. H. Sicc. fa fc . 14 .16 .
J . parvus,calamo fupra paniculam compadtam longius
produdto. Rau Syn. 432.
T h i s very rare fpecies of Ruth was only known to Britith
botanifts as a native of the beautiful country about the lakes
of Weftmoreland and Cumberland, tdl Mr. Dickfon gathered
it on Ben Lawers, fo famed among the botanical mountains
of the north. It grows in little plathy alpine bogs, flowering
in Auguft, and is perennial.
The root creeps horizontally, throwing out deep perpendicular
fibres, and feveral upright fimple round fmooth (ferns,
about 10 or 12 inches high, whofe fummits are pointed, but
weak, and often drooping in fome degree. The bafe of each
is feparately enveloped in a few theathing fcales, each tipped
with a minute point, feeming the rudiment of a leaf. The
panicle, nearly fimple, and confifting of but a few pale green
flowers, burfts laterally from the ftem below the middle, and
is accompanied underneath by a fmall leafy bra&ea, varying
in length according to circumftances. Calyx-leaves lanceolate,
with 3 ribs. Stamina 6. Capfule roundifh, blunt, of 3 cells.
Seeds numerous, fmall.