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Intlorescentia pseudolateralis, composita, dense aggregata, fere 

 sphaerica. Bractea infima cauliforinis recta vel cur\ata, 3 usque 5 

 (raro G) cm. loiiga, bracteae sequentes et prophylla hypsopbyllina, 

 pallida floribus breviora. Flores 2-5 usque 3 mm. longi, pallidi. 

 Sepala aequilonga vel interna distincta breviora, lanceolata, late 

 membranaceo-marginata, dorso viridiusculo-straminea, externa 

 acuta, interna obtusiuscula (sed ob margines involutos saepe 

 acuta). Stamina 3, dimidia sepala vix aequantia; filamenta alba 

 linearia; antherae tlavidae, filamentis longiores. Pistillum peri- 

 gonis brevius ; ovarium trigono-ovatum ; stilus brevissimus ; 

 stigmata longa. Fructus perigonis brevior, obovatus, obtusus, 

 obtuso-trigonus, lateribus non impressis, triseptatus; pericarpium 

 subcoriaceum, nitidum, stramineum. Semina parva, circa 0*4 mm. 

 longa, ferruginea, irregulariter et saepe oblique obovata, basi et 

 apice longius breviusve apiculata, inter costas paulla prominentes 

 regulariter transversim linea lata. 



Cooma District, X.S.W. (J. H. Maiden; December, 1896). 



Prof, Buchenau's views in regard to the nomenclature of the 

 Australian Juncacea^ differ in many respects from those of 

 Bentham and Mueller, and, as the opinion of such a well known 

 authority on Juncacese will be of interest to Australian botanists, 

 we give here a short extract from his 'Monographia Juncacearum' 

 (1890), supplemented by his ' Studien iiber die Australischen 

 Formen der Untergattung Junci genuini,' published five years 

 later in Engler's Botanische Jahrbiicher, Band xxi. Heft 3, 

 p. 258. 



Australian species of Juncus according to Fr. Buchenau's 

 ' Monographia Juncacearum.' 



Subgenus i. — Junci j^oiojihylli, Fr. Buch. 



1. J. hu/onius, Linn.; B.Fl. vii. 127. All the colonies except 

 West Australia. 



2. J. Brownii, F.v.M.; B.Fl. vii. 128 as J. revolutus, R.Br. 

 The specific name revolutus has been rejected as being based 



on an error; the leaves are quite fiat, though in a dried state they 



