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Xerotes.] OXXXII. JUNCACER. 103 
longer than the males. Capsule fully 4 lines diameter, E i es striate 
Tp ige.— X. fr ene F. qeu ; Sond. in Linnea, 19 
S. Wales. In the in lowes; towards the Murray pest Mitchell. 
led Portland, VET Mum River, Beckler. 
S. Austr ‘rom St. Vincent's Gulf to the Murray, F. Mueller and others ; 
ia. 
York + aoe Miss aes 
W.A alia. Swan River, Drummond, 1st coll. € 1.811; Port Gregory and 
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each bra nearly sessile or the pedicel not Hero the perianth, 
Perontbscgnont all equal, very spreading, about 1 line long, dark 
M ad Female inflorescence much less branched and 
quite visos the Qe ers larger than in the males, often reflexed, 
the e segments more rigid and less spreading. Ca sule de pressed-glo- 
bular, nearly 3 lines res pt quite smooth, the persistent perianth 
clo osely appressed to its bas 
kipsin Wimmera, kig y; d mpra William, Sullivan. 
Australia. ice field, F. ; Port Linc oln, Wiihe 
- Australia. Kin owed 8 rend, Muir ; Swan Ri iver, rac ein lst coll. 
Guan, =; Preiss, An. 1531 
Panic] h Muell. “Leaves above 1 ft. long, flat, at least 2 lines broad. 
P iban, toa, 6 to 10 in. long.—Mount Wellington, "Gipps' Land, F. Mueller. 
ps a distinct species. 
des X. filiformis, R. Br. Prod. 261.—Stems tufted, on a short hard 
x E sometimes forming a very short branching caudex. Leaves 
cal, narrow- linear, sometimes almost terete and filiform, frequently 
and 
calcat or flat 1 to 2 lines broad or vey rarely even broader; 
SaL. yp ss specimens ls Lio 2 ft. long, in dwart specimens or varieties 
Feri mn., varying as other species nih or slightly scabrous. 
ü pe very short ks the inflorescence, terete or flat.  Panicle 
Ee W-pyramidal, n almost reduced to simple raceme of 2 
i on the leaf-tufts, and varying from that to a 
agta of 6 in. on a s or 3 in., but always mueh shorter ae 
in. 
the aee the branches short, the lowest often clustered. 
pedi » globular or Vara scattered along the Mic on short ideis 
he ped cels, each subte ded by a narrow acute scarious bract shorter than 
edicel. Pathasith-por sein 1 to 1} lines ae Benya larger in 
bits than in the males, the inner ones ovate or orbieular rather 
and petallike, the outer thinner shorter and greenish. Fila- 
ET! Short, 3 attached to the centre of the inner Ma unas 3 
te with them at see ae base. No rudimentary ovary in the males 
di ‘Staminodia in the Capsule gncil-plobelar; about 8 oe 
r, often oblique by the AATA of 1 or 2 of the cells, the peri- 
