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mens 1 or: tyle-branches 2. TPOETTONA: “brates usually 4 
sometimes 5 to. Sin the typical form, and as Jong as the nut, very 
short or entirely wanting in some varieties. Nut rae borde: bicon- 
vex, smooth and shining, at length dark brown or black, crowned by 
the small depressed persistent base of the style.—Booc kel. in Linnea, 
xxxvi. 458; F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 240. 
tralia. Victoria River, F. Mueller. 
Queensland Brisbane River, Bailey. 
S. Wales. Richmond River, C, Moore, 
ar. setiformis, Stems filiform, under 2 in. high. Bristles hg short or none.— 
a Creek, Carpentaria, Gulliver ; Rockhampton, 0' Shane 
The species is Spread over the tica and temperate regions of the Old World, 
andis, perhaps, in America also 
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sides aa nerveless, with narrow scarious margins. nas 3. 
Style-branches 3. H pogynous bristles few. Nut small, obovoid, not 
by the ssed, 3-ribbed, slightly striate and transversely rugulose, crown 
e small depressed base of the style.—Boeckel. in Linnea, xxxvi. 
. Victo Edward's River, F. Mueller. The specimens not yet in fruit, but 
rey a E rrible to the true H. aor is, n is common in tropical and tem- 
Perate regions, in the New as well as the Old Wor 
Var. DE es 8 to 10 in. long, but filiform with the brown appressed sheaths 
of the European plan 
3. H, (E.) pusilla, R. Br. Prod. 225 —Very near H. acicularis 
and, perhaps, a variety as suggested by F. Mueller. Stems in tufts but on 
y slender c creeping rhizome, 1 to 3 in. high, filiform. Inner uper 
it the ier scariou Hypogynous bristles very small or none. 
is minent Vii —JBH. acicularis, var. F. Muell. Fragm. 
" 240. E. r recureate, Nees, in ‘Sieb. jacere n. TS Scirpus 
Pumilio, Spreng. Syst. i. 204. 
Victoria, ales. Port Jackson, E 
Bacchus Marsh and rre : Ema Creek, F. Mueller. 
Tasmania. South Esk River, C. Stuart 
