juncus

Matting made of juncus reeds was used frequently to line Predynastic graves, as in this well-preserved example in the worker's cemetery at HK43, at Hierakonpolis.

Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Hierakonpolis 2009 - Field Note 1 2002

The first reeds to be found in situ within the Fort's construction, samples were taken and identified by our staff archaeobotanist, Ahmed Gamal Fahmy (University of Helwan, Cairo) to be of juncus, a marsh plant used frequently in the Predynastic period for matting, especially to cover the bodies for burial.

Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Hierakonpolis 2009 - Field Note 1 2002

A medicinal tincture is made (H.) from the fresh root of the _juncus effusus_.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

In the zebra-leaved eulalia and the zebra-leaved juncus, from Japan, we have the variegation of the leaf transversely instead of longitudinally, so that according to the old theory we have the anomaly of a healthy portion of the leaf producing an unhealthy portion, and that again a healthy one, and thus alternately along the whole length of the leaf.

Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. Various

Page 414: (a Seyfe, _juncus_, _biblus_, _cirpus_) [closing parenthesis missing in original]

The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868

Ioncate, 7/82; p.  85; 152/28, junket, orig. cream-cheese made in wicker-baskets, from L. _juncus_, a rush.

Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

Among the spices exported, the most celebrated wore bdellium, and the _juncus odoratus_ or odoriferous bulrush.

The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 6. (of 7): Parthia The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. George Rawlinson 1857

Riding on through the timber, about dark we found abundant water in small ponds, 20 to 30 yards in diameter, with clear deep water and sandy beds, bordered with bog rushes, (_juncus effusus_,) and a tall rush (_scirpus lacustris_) twelve feet high, and surrounded near the margin with willow-trees in bloom; among them one which resembled _salix myricoides_.

The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont 1851

The proper species of rush for this purpose seems to be the _juncus effusus_, or common soft rush, which is to be found in most moist pastures, by the sides of streams, and under hedges.

The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 Gilbert White 1756

He thought they resembled the European reed bunting, so drew from the Latin word for "rush," juncus, and that's how the junco got its name.

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