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indivisns. Setae liypogynce 4-6, fere sepalmffi, fructuin superantes, 

 memlirancas^ dilatatai^ autrorrium mulliter ciliato-barbatse, laterales 

 coraplicatoe. Stamina 3, Apex autlierarum barbellatus. Stig- 

 niata 2, stylo fere fequilouga. Caryopsis plano-coiivexa, rotunda 

 V, obovata, interdura basi cuueata, apice subito brevi-rostellata, 

 IjEvi?, squalide fusca. Setse hypogvuffi in exemplaribus a moute 

 ressulauo (undc jam Casparus Bauhin bauc speciem indicabat) 

 atque in aliis speciminibus Austro-Europieis sa^pe tenuiorcs quam 

 in Australiauis, Nomiua specifica a Vahlio et Schradcro data 

 coueva, Diversitatera S. pterolepis non persi:)icio ; exemplaria 

 autcm l)inc comparata fructum maturum haud habcbaut. S, Ta- 

 tara, S, Desprauxii et S. riparius ma*:ua affinitate ad S. litoralem 

 trahuntur. Plantam fortasse conspecificam ex Uruguay vidi. 



Scirpus mucronatm (L. Spec. Pl. 50 ; R. Br. Prodr. 223) e 

 lociri Australiai, qui sequuutur, mihi hucusque uotus : Nova 

 Auglia (C. St.), McLeay's liiver (Beckler), Chircncc-Rivcr (VVil- 

 cox), Brisbane*s River (Bailey), Burnett's River (F. M.), Rocking- 

 ham's Bay (Dallachy). Huic speciei S. Javauus (Nees in Wight^s 

 Contrib, p. 112) et S, Sundanus (Miq. Flor. Ind, Batav. iii. 304) 

 adscribendi, S. Ohieyi (A. Gr, in Bostou Journ. v, 30 ; Manual 

 of Bot. of N. Uuit. St. fifth edit. 561) huic admodum similis. 



Scirpus pungcm (Vahl Euum. ii. 255 ; Kunth Enum. ii. 162, 

 c. synon, ; A. Gray Manual, fifth edit. 561 ; S. triqueter, R. Br. 

 Pr.^^^S ; J. Hook. FL Nov. Zel. i. 269 ; FL Tasm.ii. 89; Handb. 

 of New Zeal. Fil. i. 300 ; Schlecht. Linna^a, xx. 563 ; S. Rothii 

 Hoppe iu Stnrm's Deutschl. Fl. 36 ; F. M. Gen, Report 1855, p. 

 9) mihi adest e locis salinis Australiae occidentalis extratropicse 

 (Drumm. 359), a Spencer's et St. Vincenfs Gulf et Mount Emu 

 (F, M.), Glcnelg River (Allitt), Macquarie's Harbour (Milligan). 

 Ad hanc speciem fortasse juugendus S. Cbilensis (Nees iuLinnasa, 

 ix. 293) fide speciminis A^ahliviani a cl. Prof. Phillppi transmissi, 

 Nostrum a vero S, triquetro (L. Mantiss. Plant. 105) separamus 

 caule teuuiore, foliis longioribus angustioribus et rigidioribus, an- 

 therarum apiculo longiore et acutiore ; settn autem bypogymE 

 fructum longitudine kinc ssepe a^quant. Stigmata haud raro tria. 



Scirpus mariHrmis (L. Flor, Suecic. 39 ; R. Br. Pr. 224 ; 

 Kunth Enum. ii. 167, c. syn,) In variis locis Tasmanioa, ad flumina 

 Yarra, Gawler's et Murchiso-n'8 River varietatem digynam pro- 

 duclt. Ad hanc formam pertinet Sc. affinis (Roth Nov. Plant. 

 Spec. 30), 



Scirpiis Jluviatilis (A. Gray Manual of the Rot. of the North 

 Unit. Stat. 527 ; fifth edit. 564 ; Steud. Glum, IL 87) mihi hinc 

 cognitus a Yarra (F. M.), Parramatta (Woolls), Clarence-River 

 (Wilcox), Severn (Hartmann), Condamiue'a Rivcr (Leichhardt), 

 Brisbaue'sRiver (Bailey), King's Creek (Bowman), Bnrnetfs Rivcr 

 (F. M.), Bowen'8 Downs (Birch), nec non ex Austraiia occidentali 

 extratropica (Drumm. 936). A specie antecedente tute separandus 



