160 CXXXVI. TYPHACEX. [ Typha. 
N. Australia. Port Essington, Armstrong ; in the interior, M*Dougal Stuart's 
Expedition, 
Queensland. Moreton Ireland, M‘Gillivray ; Rockhampton, oet and 
others. 
S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown; Richmond River, Mrs. Hody- 
kian: 
Victoria. Mitta Mitta, F. Mueller ; Wimmera. C. Green. ; 
Tasmania. R. Brown; common in marshes or banks of rivers, etc., J.D. 
Hooker, 
W. Australia. Swan River, Preiss, n. 1874 ; Murchison River, Oldfield. 
The species is generally distributed over the area of the genus. 
I have found no specimens in Brown’s herbarium and I give his stations from the 
hmann, i ich has the 
Prodromus. hic : 
male and female spikes exceptionally contiguous, to the European 7. esi) 
: : A : « 
character of no practical use. Ic ns 
shape of the stigma, which varies in being rather more or less decurrent on thè 
style in the European as in the Australian plant. 
2. SPARGANIUM, Linn. 
Flowers in globular heads distant from each other along the rhachis, 
one or more upper ones male and sessile, the lower ones female and 
sessile or the lowest pedunculate. Stamens in 
and usually falling off with the surrounding scales. Pericarp 
drupaceous, with a thin epicarp and hard indehiscent endocarp. 
The us, like Typha, consists of a small number of species widely spread ov 
the northern hemisphere, but the Australian species which is also in New Ze b 
though nearly allied to one of the northern ones, appears to be distinguishable by 
characters that may be regarded as specific. 
. S. angustifolium, R. Br. Prod.338, not of Miche —Stems from 
a shortly creeping rhizome erect, not very stout, 1 to 2 ft. high or 
rarely more. Lower and radical : 
bro | the midrib aeutely prominent underneath, the lower portion €* 
panding into long many-nerved rather narrow sheaths. Inflorescent” 
simple or with one short branch in the axil of the uppermost leaf, wit 
leafy bracts under several of the lower heads. Heads few or numerous: 
all sessile or the lowest one pedunculate. Filaments of the males 
about twice as long asthe scales. Ovaries in the females tapering 2” 
a thick style, with the stigma decurrent about halfway down. Fruit: 
