Jumping Hare
a species of jerboa found in Southern Africa, and so named from its general resemblance to a hare, necessitated by the elongated nature of the hind legs, has procured for it its specific and popular distinction. dor and North America generally, but classified by some with the jerboas, and tories. Like the jumping hare, it is classified by some with the jerboas, and is one of the smallest of these forms. a native state (area 3,283 square miles; pop., about 500,000) of India, in the Bombay presidency; on the peninsula of Kathiawar, N. W. of Bombay. One of the most picturesque towns in India.
Pop., about 36,000.
JUNCEÆ, or JUNCACEE, the rush order, a small natural order of endogenous plants, so named from the typical genus Juncus. It is principally composed of obscure herbaceous plants with brown or green glumaceous hexandrous flowers, the perianth being in two series, as in Liliaceæ, but calycine instead of petaloid. Some of them, as the common rush, are employed for making mats, chair bottoms, and brooms.