Xerotes.] CXXXII. JUNCACEJE. ` 109 
old ones, apparently like those of X. leucocephala. Capsule y tas 
— shortly acuminate, 3- furrowed; smooth, about 
S. Australia. Port Lincoln, Wilhelmi. 
on IV. Tyrnorsrs.—Flower-heads or spikes globular or 
Src 
ic eam very dense, the bracts split into dense masses of woolly 
hairs ; males and females similar. 
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Kika a bien: 1 "ine broa d. iti scarious vitet at the bine split into 
long fine filaments, and red here and there by a few filaments 
fishin tip: capes much sorter: rarely attaining 1 ft., slender and 
"y rudimentary at the bottom of the tube. Female flower-heads 
sometimes amely pl i the males, but more frequently HE 
sone spike ter perianth-segments rather ge 
proportion to the inner. Ovary obovoid, almost stipitate. Fruit 
eDovoid, acuminate, hard and shining.— X. filam entosa, A. Cunn. MS. ; 
in Duperr. Voy. Bot. 183, t. 35; X. typhina, Lindl. in Mitch. 
E 
e 
E 
Three Exp 
DoSesensland. Keppel Bay, R. Brown; Port tas, M'Gillivray; Darling 
ut Law ; Curriwi ROLE Dalton ; Boyne, Hartma 
deis es. In the N. W. interior, Fraser, A. Diei E, New England, 
hhardt ; RS des River, €. Moore ; : Mudge CUN Woolls ; Murray River, deg oda ; 
and Darling Rivers and thence to the Barrier Range, : PP oats 
Espeition 
ictoria. N, W. districts, Z. Mort and others 
am^ alia. Enc nter Bay, Whitt St. Vincent's ( Gulf, F. Mueller and 
Lake Gairdner, Babbage ; bash iof Fowler s Bay, G 
— NV. Ma votes ici gib iin closely arranged in 
and nal cylindrical spike with scarious not filamentose bracts 
eat the males and females ies: 
