Cyperus. | CXLIII. CYPERACES. 263 
The species is abundant in wingien ges DAP) Tan ciae Asia and in the Mediterranean 
region, extending here and there e temperate regions both in Europe and 
Asia, and reappearing in Mexiko A" Cuba. In Australia it retains the typical form 
t only here r 
: : i the arran, 
Slightly disturbed. In the form the most frequent in the Mediterranean region, 
the spikelet assumes an irregular twist or the glumes are more or less arranged in 3 
: ranks, on which account it was referred by Linnzus r pet ^d under the name 
S. Michelianus (Isolepis Micheliana, aper Enum. but SMS i is 
probably right in regarding it as a variety only te C. S ymau Sever: 
specimens appear to be e quite interm iiiató- F. Muell. Fragm 7, includes ulit 
Isolepis Micheliana this species and the Scirpus humillimus, Benth. 
. C. cephalotes, Katti Kunth, Enum. ii. 48.—Stems from about 
6 in. to above 1 ft. hig Spikelets small and numerous, densely 
crowded into a sessile a or conical compound head about 3 in. 
» white cellular mass proje ng in 2 l up the angles of the 
pper thin cose Seren part, and falsely described as an adnate peri- 
Ium Anosporum monocephalum, Nees; Beckel. in Linnea, 
un. 411; ; F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 27 2; Cyperus Hookerianus, Thw. 
num, Ceyl. Pl, 342. 
Rockingham Bay, Dallaehy. Rather widely spread over E. India, 
€ thickenin. ty b f i i 
f g of the base of the pericarp is a curious anomaly, 
°w Species belonging to different groups of Cyperus and in one species of Scirpus, 
ind being unaccompanied b y any other character, cannot be of importance enough 
the very artificial genus as proposed by eler 
10. C. levigatus, Linn. ; Bæckel. in Linnea, xxxy. 486. —Rhizome 
and continuous with the — Spikelets in the normal 
of a green or almost white, lanceolate, 
