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Ad ostium fluminis Victoripe, F. M. 



Planta sc?quipedalis. Vagin?e radicales fissns, margine scariopo- 

 membraneie. Folia pedalia v. breviora, usque ad 2'" latiG, Panicula 

 3-4" longa, dilute fusca, glabra. SpicuhB 2-3"' longiB. Bractese 

 florales acutiusculse, haud rite bifaria?. Antheras angusta^, lineam 

 paulo excedeutes, brevi-mucronata?. Caryopsis semiliueam paulo 

 superans. 



Chmtospora imberhis (R. Br. Pr. 233 ; J. Hook. Fl. Nov. Zel. 

 i. 274 ; FL Tasm. ii. 82 ; Boeck. in Linnijea xxxviii. 299 ; C. 

 tenuissimu, Steud. Glum. ii. 162 ; Sclioeuus Browuii, J. Hook. 

 Haudb. of N. Zoal. Flor. i. 298) cetcris speciebus Australianis fre- 

 quentior est, et per regiones nostras extratropicas ample extendit. 

 Antliera? vix lineam longa?, brerissime mucronnlat^e. 



ChcBtospora paludosa (R. Br, Pr. 233) me ipso ad Botauy-Bay 

 et in AIoreton's Island reperta est. Caulis rigidulus^ ulnam altus v. 

 varie humilior. Seta3 hypogynai caryopsim sa^pe a^quantes. Cary- 

 opsis obscure fusca, opaca, erostris, la^vis, ovata, perparum angu- 

 ]ata, basi attenuata, linea brevior, vertice pilosula. 



Chcetospora nitens (R. ]5r. Prodr. 233 ; J. Hook. Flor. Nov. 

 Zel. i. 274 ; Flor. Tasm. ii. 82 ; C. concinna, J. Hook. FI. Nov. 

 Zel. i. 274, t. Ixii. B ; Boeck. in Linnasa xxxviii. 288 ; Schcenus 

 nitcns, J. Hook. Handbook of the New Zeal. Flor. i. 299 ; S. 

 concinnus, J. Hook. L c, 299) in pratis orariis ab Australia occi- 

 dentali (Drumm, 385) in terram Gippsland extendit, rcgiones 

 quoque interiores attinet, ubi autem ad locos semisalinos excmpl. 

 grat. Mount Emu Creek restringitur. Cl. Story in Tasmania hanc 

 speciem prope Swanport inveuit ; ipse eandem ad Circular Head 

 vidi ; occurrit quoque juxta Southport^ nec nou in insula Kingii. 

 Caules 1"-1^' alti. Vagina^ interdum aphyllfe. Folia exemplarium 

 humilium caulem siepe superantia, elatiorum eo frequcuter bre- 

 viora ; florale brevissimum v. usque 4'' longam, Spiculae parva;, 

 1-7. Antherae muticas, linea paulo breviores. Caryopsis ovata^ 

 obscure trigona. Set£e hypogynj^ basiu versus villos^e. 



Praiclarus Boeckeler prieeuute illustri Philippi hanc ad Scirpum 

 duxit (Llnnaia xxxvi. 696). 



Chcetospora distans. 



Elatior, rigidula, caulihus teretiusculis sulcatis, foliis elongatis 

 linearihits canaliculatis scabriusculis omnibus pra^ter floralia radi- 

 calibus, vaginis late viemhraneis ore ciliatis, spiculis magnis 

 remotis sj^icatis v. semipaniculatis compressis liueari-lanceolaribus 

 fuscesccntibus breviter pcdunculatis v. fere scssilibus, hracteis 

 ciliatis appressis sensim acntatis, exterioribus gradate brevioribus, 

 antheris elongatis muticis, stylo glabro procero omuino capillari 

 stigmatibus barbellatis longiore, setis hypogynis circiter tres fructu 

 breviorlbus. 



Ad Geograph-Bay, Pries ; Murchison*s River, Oldfield. 



