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VBtua locis, G. g. Port Sorrell (C. St.), Swanport (Story), Ar- 

 thur's River et Circnlar Head (F. M.), Tamar (Gunn).^ In Aua- 

 tralia continentali eandem speciem attuli a portu Phillipi, pro- 

 montorio Wilsoni et monte Imlayi. Caules biunciales usque 

 bipedales. Spicula semper tantum unica. Anthera? linea panlo 

 longiores, peranfrustoe, breviter aplculatse. Stylus glabcr, stigma- 

 tibus rubris longior, basi paulo incrassata cum germine evidenter 

 articulatus. SquamJB hypogynas ovatae v. lanceolata}^ irregulariter 

 connatiB, interdum bifidai, fructu bis terve breviores. Caryopsis 

 brunnca, globoso-ovata^ l^evis^ obscnre trigona, obtusissima, lineam 

 paulo excedens. Plantam memorabilem, bractearum dispositione 

 bifarla Cha^tosporffi pertincntemj squamarum autem hypogynarum 

 forma Lepidospermati accedentem, saltem in sectione illius gcneria 

 Lepidosporam dicenda (nisi melius in proprio genere) retinebiSj 

 quamquam squamulse hypogynas Lepidospermatis Sieberi in setn- 

 lam transiant. Ipse plantam olim iuter Lepidospermata posui 

 (vide Gen, Report, 18o3, p. 20). 



Chcctospora capillaris (C. capillacea, J. Hoolv. Fi. Tasm.ii. 81, 

 t. cxli. A non Nees) e locis sequentibus me hacteuus obtenta cst : 

 Bay of Fires (Bissell), Southport (C. St.), Mouut Abrupt (Sul- 

 livan), Curdic's Inlet (Walter). Caules 2' altitudiae attincntes, 

 dense conferti, ob debiHtatem saipe decumbentes. Spiculae 1-1 1, 

 paniculata} si plures. Stigraata tria, subtilissime puberula. Cary- 

 opsis livida, ovata, Y' longa, parum angulata, sub rostro spadiceo 

 persistente vix breviore conico-subulato scabrido paulo contracta, 

 sed non articulata. Squam^ 3 hypogyme lauceolato- v. subulato- 

 lineares, haud ciliata^. Ut pra^cedens ita hasc species in Lepido- 

 sperma transit et huic generi facile inseri possit. 



Cha^tospora axiUaris (R. Br. Pr. 289 ; J. Hook. Fl. Nov. Zeh 

 i. 274, t. 62 A; FI. Tasm. ii, 82 ; Bo:ck. in Linn^a xxxviii. 



289 ; Schaenus axillaris, J, Ilook. Hanb, of N. Zcal. FL i. 298 ; 

 Scirpus foliatus, J, Hook. in Lon<3. Journ. of Bot, iii.614 ; Helo- 

 thrix pusilla, Necs in Jardin'8 Anual. and Mag. of Nat. HisC. 

 Ti, 457 ; Steud. Glum, ii. 105) crescit ad Mount Lofty (F. M.), 

 Grampians (Sullivan), Snowy-EIver (F. M.) et in Tasmunia ad 

 Southport (C. St.), quantum nostra coUectio hodie distributioncm 

 demonstrat. Setula^ hypogynse caryopsim longitudine sa^pe aiquant. 



Chcetospora Jimbristyloidcs, 



Eigidula, imberbis, foHis omnibus radicalihus caule anguloso 

 sulcato aphyllo brevioribus plauiubculis secus margiuos scabros 

 introeurvis, panicula tcrminali composita multi-spicukta foliis 

 floralibus lequilonga vel longiore, spiculis brcviusculis fusciculuri- 

 coufertis, stigmatibus stylo vix breviorilms, caryopsi ovato-glohosa 

 exangulari laeviuscula brevissime rostrata setulas hypogyuas su- 

 perante. 



