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that length.— E. grandiflora, L. acuta, L. pauciflora, and L. sylvestris, 
Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 42. 
W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, 1st coll. and n. 36, 793, and 794; Preiss, 
?. 1586, 1589, 1591, 1592. The Z. pauciflora, Endl. (Preiss, n. 1689), is, however, 
included here on the authority of Mr. Baker, who has seen the typical specimen. 
have myself examined the others 
3. L. minor, R. Br. Prod. 286.—Very nearly allied to L. squarrosa. 
Stem short and tufted. Leaf-sheaths more ciliate than in L. squarrosa, 
an often rather densely covered with intricate woolly hairs, the blade 
2 to $ in. long. Flower-heads on slender peduncles of 2 to 4 in. Outer 
bracts very few and much shorter than the perianths, the inner flowering 
ones very short and shortly fringed. Perianth often very white, as in 
‘grandiflora, about 2 to 23 lines long, the inner segments more than 
half as long as the outer.—L. Roei, Endl. in Pl. Preiss. i/42; F. Muell. 
Fragm. vii. 88, 
1: 
W. Australia. King George's Sound and adjoining districts, R. Brown, Preiss, 
a 1585, Oldfield, F. Mueller, and others. In Brown's specimens the perianth is not 
te, but they are evidently starved and faded. 
mean ements about 2 lines or at length nearly 3 long, the outer ones 
F.M a er tha inner. Ovary contracted into a short stipes.— 
Dawson River, F, Mueller; Rockhampton, 0’ Shanesy. ` 
FL ee, Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 169, and 
hardt ; Ouro > and many others; northward to New England, C. Stuart, esr 
Ward fn [renee River, Beckier, Wilcox; Liverpool Plains, A. Cunningham ; south- 
Vin aTa, A. Cunningham. — r : Eg 
Victoria, Mount Lizar and M‘Alister River, F. Mueller. 
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