322 CXLIII. CYPERACER. [ Fimoristylis. 
56. F.capillaris, 4. Gray, Man. rip N: U.S. 5, 567.—~ 
Annual. Stems tufted, filiform, 3 to 9 in. high. on much 
shorter, numerous, filiform. Umbel s pals or slightly compound, of 
few short filiform m rays. Involueral der à smali and glume-like, orl 
or 2 produced into a filiform point shorter than the MM 
; um 
and nerveless. Stamens 2 or 3. Style slender, apr si 
iae 3. Nut small, obovoid, ee inently 3- angled, very o btuse, 
juny pute falling off at A — scirpus er is, ae 
ckel. in Linnea, xxxvi. 759; Isolepis capillaris, Roem, et Sebult.; 
Kunth, Enum. ii. 211; F. Muell. Fragm. ix. 7. 
Queensland. Rockingham m MM! Sandy Creek, Herb. F. Mueller. 
W. Australia, Drummond, 
Widely spread over the tropical and subtropical regions of the Ri a and the Old 
"World, extending into the more temperate districts of North Ameri 
5. SCIRPUS, Linn. 
(Isolepis, Br. ; Malacochzte, Nees.) 
several usually many hermaphrodite flowers. 
round the henna: a sami or the jet 1 get 2 “capt 
Hypogynous bristles none or 3 to 8, ciliate with minute re 
or flattened into plumose scales. Stamens 3, 2 or 1. led 
more or less divided into 2 or 3 filiform stigmatic branches, 
scarcely thickened, continuous with the nut and remaining as à "S nal 
point or tubercle: ies “oe globular triquetrous OF flat.— 
all an zt 
- appress sheath with or without a short iani som 
long. Inflorescence sometimes terminal with 2 or more uneq 
involueral M as in Oyperus, more frequently more OF = 
with one erect involucral bract continuing the stem S " 
species m beak iibtesidihi the solitary terminal spikelet is sho 
glume 
us is truly cosmopolitan, thriving alike within the tropics and it, mae 
Antarctic, and ex tly E bee: vati actually in Rot 
in iti "Of the twent -three A i gesserint (t y these 
four more are re und in = Zealand or South Africa or both, and one «nis 
, the xag eleven belong also 
