20 USES OF SCIRPUS LACUSTRIS, 



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No. 43 ! 



Drum., colL VI., 



11. Verticordia (Pennuligera) graiidis. Brum., in Hook. Journ., 

 1853, p. 119 = Drum., coU. VI., No. 44 ! 



Chamaelaucium Drummondii, Meim. = Drum., coll. VI., No. 41 ! 



12- Chamaelaucium Drummondii 



13. Chamselaucium affine, Meisn. = Drum., coll. VI., No. 40 ! 



14. Pileanthus filifolius, Meisn. = Drum., coll. VI., No. 42 ! 



15. Calycothrix tenuifolia, Meisn, = Drum., coll. VI., No. 57 ! 



16. Calycothrix rosea, Meisn. = Drum., coll. VI., No. 56 ! 



17. Calycothrix lasiantha, Meisn. = Drum., coll. VI., No. 53 ! 



18. Calycothrix brevifolia, Meisn. = Drum., coll. VI., No. 58 ! 



19. Calycothrix Drummondii, Meisn. = Drum., coll. VI., No. 52 ! 



20. Calycothrix tenella, Meisn. = Drum., coll. VI., No. 55 ! 



21. Calycothrix tetragonophylla, Meisn. = Drum., coll. VI., No. 54 ! 



22. Calycothrix puberula, Meisn. ~ Drum., coll. VI., No. 51 ! 



Uses of Scirpus lacustris (Bullrush) in South America. 



We are familiar with many of the uses of the common Bullrush in 

 our own country, for thatching, for making panniers, beehives, horse- 

 collars, chair-bottoms, etc. etc. It servres for more numerous and more 

 important purposes in Peru and Bolivia. In the very interesting In- 

 troduction to the 'Additions a la Flore d'Amerique du Sud, par M. 

 WeddeU' (Paris, 1850), the author says, p. 56, speaking of the vicinity 

 of the famous Lake Titicaca, " Plusieurs cours d'eau affluents du lac 

 coupent aussi ce district : je les passai dans des singulieres embarca- 

 tions composees de deux grosses bottes ou cylindres de joncs lies en- 

 semble, et releves en pointe aux extremites. Ce jonc est une espece de 

 Scirpus, tres-voisine de notre S. lacustris,^ et se trouve abondamment 

 dans presque tons les bas-fonds du lac ; c'etait la plus grande plante 

 que je voyais depuis mon depart de la Paz." And again, in his second 

 visit to that region, 'Voj^age dans le Nord de la Bolivia' (Paris, 1853), 

 in describing the passage *'du singulier canal qui porte le nom de 

 Desaguadero, et qui fait communiquer le grand lac de Titicaca avec celui 



♦ No doubt the -S*. Tatora, Nees et Mey. in Linnaea, ix. p. 292. But there is 

 good reason to believe it identical with S. lamsiris, which we have from Peru; and 

 indeed from Iceland in the north, and New Zealand and Van Diemen's Land in the 

 south, and from Peru and other parts of South America. 



