. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 468 JUNCACEAE. Vol. 4. Juncus gymnocarpus Coville. Pennsylvania Rush. Fig. 1169. Juncus Smithii Engelm. Trans. St. Louis Acad. 2: 444. 1866. Not Kunth, 1841. /. gymnocarpus Coville, Mem. Torr. Club 5: 106. 1894. Stems erect, i°-2j° high, about 1" thick, arising at intervals from a creeping proliferous rootstock about ii" in diameter; basal leaves
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 468 JUNCACEAE. Vol. 4. Juncus gymnocarpus Coville. Pennsylvania Rush. Fig. 1169. Juncus Smithii Engelm. Trans. St. Louis Acad. 2: 444. 1866. Not Kunth, 1841. /. gymnocarpus Coville, Mem. Torr. Club 5: 106. 1894. Stems erect, i°-2j° high, about 1" thick, arising at intervals from a creeping proliferous rootstock about ii" in diameter; basal leaves reduced to bladeless clasping sheaths; panicle commonly 7"—15" high, spreading, its subtending leaf usually 4'-io' long; peri- anth 1" in length or a little less, its parts with a green midrib, equal, lanceolate, the outer acute, the inner obtuse; stamens 6, nearly as long as the perianth, the anthers shorter than the filaments; capsule almost twice as long as the perianth, broadly ovoid, conspicuously mucronate, brown and shining, barely dehiscent, 3- celled; seed obliquely obovoid or oblong, somewhat mis- shapen by compression in the capsule, about J" long, none with perfect markings seen. In swamps, mountains of Schuylkill and Lebanon coun- ties, Pennsylvania, and in Florida. 5. Juncus balticus Willd. Baltic Rush. Fig. 1170. Juncus balticus Willd. Berlin Mag. 3: 298. 1809. Stems erect, 8-36' high, i"-ii" thick, arising at intervals from a stout creeping rootstock i"-ii" thick; basal leaves reduced to bladeless sheaths; panicle commonly i'-2i' high; perianth ii"-2l" long, its parts lanceolate, acute, or the inner some- times obtuse, nearly equal, brown with a green mid- rib and hyaline margins; style i"-i" long; stigmas a little snorter; stamens 6, about two-thirds the length of the perianth; anthers about I" in length, much longer than the filaments; capsule about as long as the perianth, pale to dark brown
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