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FRAGMENTA PHYTOGEAPHI.E 



AUSTRALIiE. 



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Ctpekace^. 



Carex canescens. 



Linne Flor. Suecic. n. 842 ; P. M. Third Gen. Rep. p. 9 ; Boott Tllustr. ir. 



154, t. 496. 



Minor, brevi-stolonifera, foliis parum scabris, spiculis paucis 

 fere ovatis vel oblongis aphyllis spicam scepe ijiterriiptam consti^ 

 tueyitihxis inferne masculis^ terminali in basim longe attenuata, 

 bracteis pallidis teueris florum feminorum ovatis acutis vel subinde 

 cuspidatis, stigmatibus duobus, fructibus plano-convexis ovatis 

 brevi-acuminatis subtilissime striatis summo apiee parum emargi- 

 natis hinc non fissis, 



In variis alpium Australia^ locis altitudine 4-7000' ; e, g. Mount 

 Baw-Baw ; Mount Kosciusko. 



Species |-3 pedalis^ hinc C. echinateej illinc C. inversa^ approxi- 

 mata. 



Carex breviculmis (R. Br. 242 ; Kuuth. Enum. ii. 522 ; Boott 

 in J. Ilook. Flor. Nov. Zel. t. 63 ; FL Tasman. ii. 101 ; Hand- 

 book, i. 316 ; Boott Illustr. iv. 181 ; C. Royleana, Nees in Wight's 

 Contrib, 127; Boott III. t. 19; C. leucochlora, Bnnge Memoir. 

 de TAcad. de St, Petersb. 1835, p. 142 ; C. Langsdorffii, Boott in 

 Transact. Linn. Soc, 



144) a portu Phillipi in Australiam 

 orieutalem extendit, quantum hodie scimus. Servavi exemplaria 

 e statiouibus quse sequuntur : Yarra, 3Iount Disappointment, 

 Mount Kosciusko (F. M.), Parramatta (Woolls), Newca^tle (Leich- 

 hardt), Lord IIoM'e's Island (Fullagar), Swan-port (Story), South 

 Esk (C. St.). Folia inferiora ssepe sed non semper inflorescentiam 

 exceduut. Stigmata tria, Fructus fere in modum C. gracllis pube- 

 scentes, interdum fere glabrescentes, nunc brevius nunc consplcius 

 in apicem attenuati. 



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