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ad rarraniatta a Rev. Woolls, ad raontcs Blue Moimtains a Luttovica 

 Calvert lecta fuit. Caiiles lJ-4'. Folia rigidula, perangusta, 

 canaliculata, caulina ad semipedem longa. Panicula ad longitu- 

 dinern 1-|' extendcns. BractCEe imberLes. Spicul^ rufo-fusca?, 

 tenues, ^-f" longae. Stigmata tenuissime capillaria, Btylo paulo 



Lreviora. 



Chcefospora avcnacea (Endl. Gcn. Plant. 113 ; Carplia avenacea, 

 E. Br. Pr, 230; Rhynchospora avenacea, Spreng. Syst, i, 197; 

 Cyathochaita diandra, Nees in Lehm. Phint. Preiss. ii. 86, absque 

 synonymo ; Boeck. in Linnsea xxxviii. 314, absq. syn. ; Tetra- 

 lepis australis, Steud. Glum. ii. 159) crescit ad King George's 

 Sound (F. :M.), Luke Muir (Muir), Gordon's River (Okllield), 



Warren*s et Blackwood^s River (Walcott), Suan-River (Lukin). 

 Planta ad 5' alta, Andropogonis statura. Foliarigida, scmiterctia, 

 ample canaliculata, apicem versus plana, ad uhiam usque longa, 

 1-^'" tenus Lata. Vaginae imberbes, fuidentes. Panicula contracta, 

 sesquipedalis v. brevior. Spicuke pollicera usque longai. Biactoai 

 glabrae. Stamina vidi 2, Brown et Steudel 3, numero forsaa 

 variantia. Antherie tenuissima^, fere 3'" longge^ acuta^, sed muticse. 

 Stylus stigraatibus conspicue longior ; pars persistens dcmum 

 Bubulata, puberula, 4-6"' longa; pars defrangens brevis, capillaris 

 et saturatius colorata. SetiE hypogynae 4-5, fructui circiter asqui- 

 longse, basi irregulariter et imperfecte coalitce. Caryopsis 5-6'" 

 longa, I'" lata, nigrescens, laevis; apice saepe truncatula, sulco 

 unilaterali leniter excavata. 



ChcElospora claiideslina (Endl. Gen. Pl. 113 ; Carpha claudes- 

 tina, R. Br. Pr. 231) speciei antecedenti admodum affinis est, si 

 veram in exemplaribus ad Wilson's Inlet ab Oldfield collectis 

 recognosco. Spiculce sesquipollicares. Antheras longitudinem 

 pollicis pLane attiuentes. Filamenta inferne plana, superne ex- 

 serta et capillaria. Pars styli persistens bipollicaris. Stigmata 2, 

 fere semipolhcaria. Caryopsis matura me non obtenta. E nota 

 inventoris planta 6-8' alta est et in coHibus arenosis vivit. 



Fasciculus LXXIII. editus Martlo 16:o 



