96 CXXXII JUNCACEE. ` [ Xerotes. 
6 equal-lobes, Female flowers sessile in solitary y sessile or very y shortly peduneulate heads, the 
perianth divided to the base into 6 equal : segments, Leafy stems dien elongated, especially 
in the females, the scapes or peduncles terminal or in the upper 
Male sakda sers 1 line or scarcely longer in several Met 
numerous cluster 
Leafy Deus Emi, with short twisted leaves. Female ; 
perianths zs. rigid in globular se ssile heads - 19. X. flexifolia. 
ted 
re than g. e flowers of X. flexifolia 20. X. glauca. 
Leafy bas ofi the Pide very short. Leaves above 1 ft. 
mal ads i 
e heads very scarious on very short 
Sa 
Sheathing 1 bases of sat ves seed Scarious mar rgins 
tting into numerous filam Eastern Don M. 21. X, elongata. 
Sheathing bases of the “eaves tok poor into fila- : 
estern speci . 22. X, rupestris, 
Leafy biae of the Mois T aqui E veral inches long. Leaves ` 
o 1 ft., the shea athing base splitting into filam ents, 
Fem en heads S scarious estern species | 23. X. collina. 
Male flowers often 2 lines e Paga or few heads, “Leafy 
se of the stems very s short 
Male flowers unknown: Feinale ipe (perhaps not 
normal) split into masses of hair-like s 25. X. turbinata, 
24. X, suaveolens, 
Secr. III. Scheenoxeros.—Baryen stems iu la e sheathing scales at 
the base. Flowering super very short and leafless, with 2 or 3 flower heads, males and 
females near ly similar 
B 
racts scarious, en Western species . X spartea. 
Bracts fringed or siti into hairs. S, Australian. species . E X. juncea. 
Secr. IV. Typhopsis.—Fiowe eads or spikes globular or 2 very dense, the 
bracts split soaps dense pest of d y ei "s, males ar r ar i milai 
Leafy base very short, Leaves 1t 28, X. leucocephala. 
Secr. i. ostachya. — Flower-clusters Ss y aces) ina long terminal ty- 
lindrical spike with se a tract. make and fem Y milar. 
i fy base of the stems very short, Leaves 2 to 3 3 ft. tine 29. X. hastilis. 
cr . EuxEROTES.— Male flowers paniculate or racemose Or 
aieri Ti a simple or branched rhachis. Female inflorescence 
r 
Sers I. GrowrRATX.— Male flo owers sessile and numerous i 
sessile clusters. Capsule smooth or nearly «o 
1 ft.. long and about. 3 lines broad, the = bases with narrow 
nd rgins. — em not long E the inflorescence. ^ 
flowers forming: a panicle of 8 in, to 1 ft: with long spreading ope 
elustered branches, the P rh sessile in globular duas sessile along 
the branches and at eir base. Bracts Aumergas, hyaline, 
shorter than the Sa aad Perianth-segments all equal; ovate, thit 
