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terque sulcata, passim exsulca, alia cauleui cequantia v. modice eo 

 breviora, alia pauciora caulem vix semia?quautia. Infloresccntia 

 usque 5" longa. Bractese flori^erai sensim tenui-acurainata^j inter- 



dum fere aristatje. Caryopsis ellipsoidea, llneam paulo excedens, 

 squamulis liypogynis lanceolatis acuminatis ter quaterve lonjiior. 

 Drumm. 252, 380. Habitus Lepidospermatis Neesii. Cl. Otto 

 Boeckeler hanc speciem Lepidospermati Clnnensi (Xees et Meyen 

 in Linna^a ix. 302) junxit. 



Lejndosperma Neesii (Kunth Enum. ii. 319 ; Boeckeler in 

 Linnsea 1874, p. 331 ; L, tetragonum, Nees in Linna^a ix. 302) 

 ad Botany-Bay et in terra Gippsland, e. g. Corner-Tnlet et 

 Strzelccki's Range reperi. Radix stolonosa. Caules folia saepe 

 superantia, spithamoii usque uluares. Spicula^ nigrescentes, 

 Antherie tenui-lineares, longiuscule mucronulat^. Caryopsis vix 

 fiesquilinearis, sqiiamuHs hypogynis haud conspicue acuminatis 

 pluries longior. 



Lepidosperma striatum (R. Br. Pr. 235) liabeo a Port Lincoln 

 (Browne), Gawler^s River (Behr), St. Vincent's Gulf (Blan- 

 dowski), Lake Alexandrina, Grampians, Glenelg's River (F. M.), 

 Moyston (SuUivan), Lake Hindmur^h (Morton). Cauhs spitha- 

 ma?us upque sesquipedalis. Folia tenui-filiformia, paulo angulata 

 et canaUculata. Rachis spicarum fascicularium Sccpe decurva, 

 fiemper brevis. SpicuUe iis L, Neesii longiores, nigritie. An- 

 therse anguste lineares, addito mucronulo stepe longiusculo 1^2'" 

 longag. Stylus pertenuis, stigmatibus capillaribueset^quilinearibus 

 fequilongus, Caryopsis elliptico-ovata, in stipitem brevem atte- 

 nuata, squamulas hypogynas tcnui-acuminatas ter superans. Planta 

 ia locis aridis tam montanis quam depressis occurrit. Diagnosis 

 Brownii insufficiens non minus L. confini convenitj quare exemplar 

 originale adhuc comparandum. 



Lepidosperma scabrum (Nees in Lehm. Plant. Preiss. ii. 92) 

 obtineo a Swan-River (Preiss), Murchison-River (Oldfield) et e 

 coUectionibus Drummondi sub 279, 869 et 87L Caules usque 

 ad 4' alti et 1-^'" crassi, evidenter striati, vix nitenteSj interdum 

 cum foliis tota longitudine scabri. AntherEe perangustae, mucro- 

 nato-acuminata?, 



Lepidosperma puhisquameum (Steud. Ghim. ii. 158) collectio 

 Drummondi sub 250 exhibet. Plantas partim ad hanc speciem 

 partira ad prjeeuntem vergentcs notis specificis haud facile sepa- 

 rabiles e variis Australire occidentalis extratropicae locis habemus. 



Lepidosperma Jiliforme (Labill. Nov. Holl. Plant. Specim. i. 

 17, t. 15 ; F. M. Report 1853, p. 20 ; J. Hook. Flor. Tasm. ii. 93, 

 excluso synonymo ; Boeckeler in Linmea 1874, p. 327 ; L. 

 flexuosum, R. Br, Prodr. 235 ; Nees in Linn. ix. 302) hactenus 

 mihi notum a St. Yincent's Gulf (F. M,), Portland-Bay (Walter), 

 Ararat (Green), Grampians, Curdie's River^ GeIIibrand's River, 

 Barwan, Gippsland (ubi in alpes altiores adscendit), Botany-Bay 



