''Juncus maritimus'', known as the sea rush, is a species of
rush that grows on coastlines. It is sometimes considered
conspecific
Biological specificity is the tendency of a characteristic such as a behavior or a biochemical variation to occur in a particular species.
Biochemist Linus Pauling stated that "Biological specificity is the set of characteristics of living organism ...
with ''
Juncus kraussii''.
It has a wide distribution across the western
Palearctic realm
The Palearctic or Palaearctic is a biogeographic realm of the Earth, the largest of eight. Confined almost entirely to the Eastern Hemisphere, it stretches across Europe and Asia, north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa.
The ...
(all of Europe, western Asia and the
Maghreb
The Maghreb (; ), also known as the Arab Maghreb () and Northwest Africa, is the western part of the Arab world. The region comprises western and central North Africa, including Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, and Tunisia. The Maghreb al ...
).
According to
Edward Catich
Edward M. Catich (January 4 1906 – April 13, 1979) was an American Roman Catholic priest, teacher, and calligrapher. He is noted for the fullest development of the thesis that the inscribed Roman square capitals of the Augustan age and afterwar ...
the ancient Egyptians used ''Juncus maritimus'' as a brush for writing. He describes the process of making one: “the end of which
he rushwas cut at a slant and its fibers split by chewing to produce a small chisel-shaped ‘brush‘.”.
References
maritimus
Plants described in 1789
Taxa named by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Flora of Europe
Flora of Sweden
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