Family Juncaceae
Juncus stygius L. var. americanus Buchenau
bog rush, moor rush
Juncus: the classical Latin name for the rush, possibly from jungere, "to join or bind," because the stems were used for binding
stygius: Linnaeus in Lachesis Lapponica, describing boggy area which "consists chiefly of marshes, here called stygz. A divine could never describe a place of future punishment more horrible than this country, nor could the Styx of poets exceed it."
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