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Juncus.] Seeds smaller and narrower than in J. novæ-zealandiæ.—''Buchen. Monog. Junc.'' 290. J. capillaceus, ''Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 264; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 291; Fl. Tasm''. ii. 65, t. 134; ''Benth. Fl. Austral.'' vii. 132 (not of Lamarck).

Perennial herbs, usually tufted. Leaves grass-like, mostly radical, more or less ciliate with long flexuous white hairs. Flowers small, crowded in small fascicles or placed singly, the fascicles or single flowers arranged in an irregularly branched simple or compound umbel or cyme, sometimes contracted into a globose or spiciform head, each flower with a bract and 2 bracteoles. Perianth-segments 6, glumaceous, distinct. Stamens 6, hypogynous or the 3 inner attached to the base of the segments; filaments filiform; anthers oblong or linear. Ovary sessile, 1-celled; style filiform, with 3 long stigmatic lobes; ovules 3, erect from a short basal placenta. Capsule 3-valved. Seeds 3, or fewer by abortion, globose or ovoid; testa minutely reticulated.