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StacJchoima.'] xxxv. stackhousie^. 407 



Victoria. Common in fertile as well as in sterile soils, asceudine in the Alps to 4500 

 ft., F, Mueller, 



Tasmania. Derwent river, R, Brown ; abiuidaTit tlirougliout the island^ /. B. Hooker, 



S. Australia. From the Murray to Speucer's Gulf, and in the iutLrior to Lake Tor- 

 rens, F, Mueller. 



Although Labillardicre confounded this species with S, spat/ndaia, and represented and 

 described the fruit of the' latter species, yet the common one, of which he described the 

 flowering specimens, has been so universally kno\\T3 under his name, that it would only in- 

 crease the confusion to adopt a later name for that species. Among \i^ numerous forms, the 

 laiuriant specimens with more conical spikes which commonly pass for the true S. monogyna^ 

 and the smaller ones with fewer flowers and the young spike more obtuse, pubh'shed b/ 

 ■Lindiey as S. ohimUy pass into each other by innumerable gradations. It is to tlie former 

 that Schleehtendal gave the name of IF. Gimnii, whilst Hooker's variety of that name is 

 nearer to //. obiusa, A rather more distinct variety, with elongated slender stems, narrow 

 and more distant leaves, sometimes veiy few and small, and rather smaller flowers, with 

 smaller and smoother cocci, is amongst the more common Victorian and S. Australian forms, 

 and is more especially the S. linaricefolia, A. Cunn., or S. Muelleri, Schuch. It has some- 

 times the almost terete leaves of 5. Huegelii, from which it then differs in its very short bracts. 

 The calyx in this variety is often strongly ribbed after flowering, but still more so in a 

 Slender northern variety, which has larger almost muricate cocci. A few Queensland speci- 

 inens (Port Dcnison, Fitzalan), very slender, with small flowers in short dense spikes, seem 

 almost to connect this with *S'. muricata. Indeed, different as are the extreme forms, the 

 numerous specimens I have had before me show scarcely any definite limits between 6*. mo- 

 ^ogyna^piihescens, Huegelii,flava, muricata, tiuiviminea, 



4. S. pnbesceus, J. Rich, SerL Astrol. 89, t, 33. Stems usually erect, 

 nearly simple, 1 to 1| ft. high, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves very narrow- 

 linear, often 1 in. long in tlie lower part of the plant, glabrous or pnbcscent. 

 Spike at first dense and conical, elongating to 3 or 3 in,, always pubescent. 

 -Bracts linear, subulate-acuminate, usually exceeding the young buds. Calyx- 

 lobes acuminate, nsually strongly ciliate. Corolla of the size and shape of that 

 of S, monogyna, with oblong obtuse lobes. Cocci strongly reticulate, usually 

 pubescent.— Eungc, in Tl. Preiss. i. ISO; Schuch. in Linnsea, xxvi. 10; 



S:i"owu out). 



(\-oaiig butls, with the style not yet 



W. Australia. King George's Sound, U. Srown, Lesson, Oldjield; Swau Kiver, 

 JJrumjnond, Vrelss, n. 1973, aud others; Eottenest Island, Preiss, n. ISM. 



Huegelii 



Glabrous, with erect nearly 



Simple stems of i to 1| ft., with a terminal spike at first dense, after\vards 

 elongated as in C. mohogyna, and the flowers about the same size, with ob- 

 'O'ig, obtuse corolla-lobes ; but the leaves are very narrow-linear, often almost 

 Jei-ete, and the bracts and calvx-lobcs also very narrow, as in -S". pnhescens, 

 from whicb this species differs slightly in the want of any pubescence, except- 

 ing sometimes in the cocci. — Schuch.* in Linnaea, xxvi. 14. 



y^' Australia. Swan River, ami northward to Murchisou river, Brnmmond, Oldjield, 

 and others; King George's Sound, R. Brown; Kalgau river, Oldjield; Stirling ranges, 

 Jaaj-well. This ought perhaps to be considered as a variety only of S. pubescens. 



. 6. S. flava, TIooJc. Ic. Fl. t. 2G9. Glabrous. Stems numerous, branch- 

 ing at the base, decumbent or ascending to from 6 in. to 1 ft. m height. 

 leaves Hnear, flat, rarely above \ in. long, rather thick, those of the short 

 sterile brandies sometimes broader and oblong. Flowers yellow, much smaller 

 than in 8. monogyna, clustered in short, dense, terminal spikes, tlie pedicels 



