Scirpus. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNITA, © é 223 
from three to six inches high, angular, smooth. Leaves fili- 
form, as long ‘as the culm, woolly near the mouth of the 
sheaths. Head terminal, sessile, composed of from three to 
five small, sessile, few-flowered spikes. Involucre from two 
to three-leaved. Scales pointed.. Stamen single. Stigina — 
Copenaiet Seed three-sided, short, thick, smooth, white. 
29, S, antarcticus. Linn, sp. pl. ed. Willd. i. 310. Vahl. 
enum. ii. 261, 
Culms erect, from three to six inches high, round.. Head 
terminal, of many spikelets. Involucres from two to three- 
pointed, Seed three-sided. 
Grows on sandy pasture ground. 
- Root fibrous. Culms erect, from three to six inches high, 
round, smooth. Leaves radical, embracing the base of the 
culms, sheathing, half the length of the culm. Head or 
umbellet terminal, globular, composed of numerous small, 
sessile, few-flowered, conical, pointed spikes. Involucre from 
two to three-leaved, scarcely the hengtls of the leas ee: 
a Seed sh aa amines Sais: 
30. acini Sita, Rinbeb orice: 61. t. 17. f. 6. Linn, sp, 
pl. ed. Willd. i. 311. 
- Culms sub-erect, from four to eight inches high, semi-cu- 
lumnar. Head terminal, of many sub-sessile spikelets, Jn- 
volucres from two to three; scales obtuse, monandrous, Seed 
roundish, compressed, 
Fimbristylis argentea. Vahl. enum. ii. 294. 
Found on sandy pasture ground, growing in gtd ees 3 
with the exterior culms of the tuft curved. 4 
Root fibrous. Culms erect, or ascending, cathy naked, — 
from four to eight inches high, round on omesides ‘and flatten- 
ed on'the other, sometimes with a groove on the flat side. 
Leaves as in the former species. end or wmbellet terminal, 
composed of from fifteen to twenty cylindrical, obtuse, sessile, 
silver-coloured, many-flowered spikes, Jnvolucre two, three, 
