J U N C U S bulbofus.
Round-fruited Rujh,
H EX A ND R IA Monogynia.
Gept. Char. Cal. of 6 leaves, permanent. Cor.
none. - Cap/. fuperior, of 3 valves, with 1 or 3
cells. Seeds lèverai. Stigmas 3.
Spec. Char. Leaves linear, channelled. Stem leafy
towards the bafe. Panicle cymofe, leafy. Cap-
fuies blunt.
Syn. Juncus bulbofus. Linn. Sp. P I. 466. Sm.
F I. B rit. 381. Hudf. 150. With. 348. Hull. 76.'
Relh. 14 3 . Sihth. itM. Abbot. 79. D ick f.H . Sicc.
fa fe . 1 3 . 14.
J . parvus, cum pericarpiis rotundis. Ran Syn. 433,
T h i s Juncus is to be found in moift meadows and paftures
that are expofed to the fait water, in which kind of fltuation it
is not uncommon. Dr. Goodenough has alfo found it near
Windfor; and our fpecimen was gathered in marthes near
Walthamliow by Mr. E. Forfter. We have what appears to
be the fame, brought by Mr. Dickfon from high and rather
dry ground in the Highlands. It flowers early in July.
The root is perennial, creeping, though not widely, certainly
not bulbous, nor can the bafes of the Items be properly
fo denominated: the Linneean trivial name, therefore, is un-1
juftiliable, and feems to have been taken from a fynonym of
Micheli which belongs to our J. uliginofus. Stems ere&,
generally about a foot high, Ample, fmooth, a little comprefled,
molt leafy in the lower part, Leaves linear, narrow, channelled,
acute. Panicle ere£t, terminal, but often furmounted
by a lefler one on a longer ftalk, leafy, many-flowered. Flowers
fmall. Calyx bluntilh, its fegments green with a broad
brown edge. Capfule longer than the calyx, of a roundilh
obovate form.
We know not that this Rulh has been applied to any ufe
whatever.