Centrolepis.] E CXLI. CENTROLEPIDER. 205 
of the heads examined. Carpels of the ovary about 8, rarely 10. 
Styles free or nearl 80.— Desvaucia glabra, F. Muell. in Linnea, xxviii. 
226; Alepyrum Muelleri, Hook. f. FI. Tasm. ii. 78. 
Victoria. Moant Emu Creek, Edwards River, F. Mueller; Richardson River, 
Miss Beal, 
Tasmania. Bottom of a lagoon on Macquarie River, Gunn. 
W. Australia, Drummond, n. 929. 
. C. muscoides, Hieron. Centrol. 95.—A minute slender glabrous 
annual, growing i ense moss-like tufts of about + in. Leaves 
scarcely exceeding the spike, subulate, dilated at the 
with a narrow scale under the stamen. Carpels of 
10; 
ovary usually 6 to 8 but sometimes only 4 or as many as 10. 
Alepyrum Tasm. ii. 77. 
Tasmania. Marshy ground in subalpine situations about Marlborough, Gunn. 
l stamen and 1 ovary with a single carpel.—Ale 
Š 3 d, yrum monogynum, 
Book. & Fl. Tam, ii. 77 7 s 
not at all those of Aphelia, in which it is placed i t of 
in placed by Hieronymus on accoun 
los artificial c ter of the solitary carpel. It has moreover no male flower in the 
Tact, and ovaries with a single carpel occur also occasionally in C. alepyroides. 
ds = pulvinata, Desv. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 1, xiii. 42, 4. 2, A 
Fi šely tufted little plant, with filiform leaves and scapes of i to 2 in. 
i C3 bracts a little d 
r 
the ] 9ne slightly hairy. Flowers 1 or 2 in the upper bract, 2 or 3 in 
Ower one; hyaline scales rather long, 2 or sometimes 3 to each 
100. D Carpels of the ovary to 6 or rarely 7.— Hieron. Centrol. 
t B esvauria pulvinata, R. Br. Prod. 252; Guillem. Ic. Pl. Austral. 
to b imania, Kent's Group, Bass's Straits, R. Brown. Said also by Hieronymus 
uth West Australia, but I have seen np specimens from thence. 
with C: PUSilla, Rom. e; Schult. Syst. i. 44A small tufted plant 
“tapes aud leaves of about 2 In. like C. muscoides. Floral bracts 
