— Siebera.] LVI. UMBELLIFEIRE. 353 
setaceous, entire, or the lower ones once or twice 2 -fid, or all reduced to 
mute scales. Umbels terminal or on short lateral branches, i "4 lin. diameter, 
er less compound, with slender divaricate e rays, 2 or 3 of the lon 
E an umbellule sometimes again compoun d, whilst some of the 
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pressa, Spreng. ; rod. iv. 73; en neeps, DC. Le ; Bunge i S - Preiss. 
1288; 7. mene ege l.c. 287; T. stricta, Bunge, La 
- Australia. Kin ng George's Sound and adjoining districts and phim to Swan 
"^x EL R. Brown and others, Drummond, n. 93; Preiss, n. 2059, 2060, 
ar. filiform ied SH slender, scarcely flattened, ne the fruit of S. compressa, not 
d juncea — T. filiform a Berge i in PL Preiss. i, 289. n River, Preiss, n. 2058. 
I have been quite eech to sort the paion into distint ct groups, der s to the 
bd of the stem, which i is often vat on the specimen, and unaccompani y 
ied b 
corresponding charac ter. In general those gathered on the seacoast appear to have the 
pil the most dilat 
?. S. jun a Benth. Stems erect, almost leafless, terete, engulas, or 
BS meti either rushlike and 1 to 2 ft. AER or shorte 
oi ans tralia, n River and thence to Kin George’s Sound; EE lat 
[ Kn 16, 91; Prat n. 2069, 2083, at some e user under o 
AT. ramosissima. Stems shorter, more branched and slender pes in the on form 
en 
— per tehymene Een Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 54; - candelabrum, Bunge in PI. 
1 VE Beien, Sleruosa, Turez. "d Bull. Mose. —— ii. E .—Swan River and 
zeorge's Sound, Drummond, 4th Coll. n. M = 
Var. SE Stems short, slender, much bran hee eed Mos Zo 
Ind um els.— Trach mene pendula , Be St Hueg. E ELE 
Bunge in Pl. Preiss, i. at T —Ki dure eorge’s Sound aid neighbouring districts, R. Brown 
ond, 3rd Coll. n, 998 . Preiss, n. 2075. 
"d S. haplosciadia Benth. Stems from a perennial rootstock ap- 
` lei fix Y leafless, "ie or angular, erect d rushlike, but the upper branches 
ST? "rer or recurved s in the var. pendula of S. juncea. Leaves few, 
groa 1 ifid. Umbels terminal, all simple, with very numerous 
cue short slender Sie Involueral bracts linear, reflexed, broader 
but se from them on each side by a narrow furrow 
Kg a thick en base, without the nd disk of 5S. — 
