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coloured leafy sheathing scales at the base. Panicle apparently lateral 
and sessile at from 2 or 3 to 6 or 8 in. below the top, the leafy bract at 
the base of the inflorescence bein erect, terete, continuous with the 
tous, densely crowded into a compact globular head of i in. diameter 
or forming a looser very unequally branched panicle of 1 to 2 in. diame- 
Linn. ; R. Br. Prod. 
Australia, Apparently abundant wherever there are marshes or habitually wet 
places, especially without the tropies, the special localities recorded from each colony 
ire far too erous to be worth enumerating, the species extending also to most 
PE staged pical regions of the globe. In Australia as elsewhere there are 
1, Principal varieti J. ratus, Linn., with the flowers closely packed in 
row head and usually more or less brown, and J. effusus, Linn., with the panicles 
Th. E and paler coloured, but every gradation may be observed between the two. 
* former is not so common in ia as the looser flowered one, but I have seen 
ens the colonies in the herbaria of F. Mueller or of Kew. - i; 
poi ddrireli, Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 66, t. 134, and J. pallidus, Hook. f. 1. c. and 
terrible Kunth, Enum. iii, 321, but not'of R. Br. appear to me to be entirely re- 
€ to forms of J. communis. 5 
wg a Port Jackson, R. Brown, I have seen it in no other collection, 
J. pallidus | and western large species usually taken for Brown’s J. vaginatus is his 
sheathing scales 
Ttaran and someti i int of 1 or 2 in. 
Thorens. 24 sometimes produced into a leafy point of 1 or 
Mic lateral as in v peed the leafy bract at its — vict 
K 
is 
compound + » erect and terminating the stem. Panicle irregular 
Yor, ling that of the loose-flowered variet; J. communis, 
