324 CXLIIL. CYPERACEA. [Scirpus 
Spikelets cy = very numerous in a dense globular 
y lateral cl x po . 16. S. nodosus. 
Szcrton IL. Euscirpus. Mijlkopniti bristles 3 to 8. Plants mostly tall and 
stout. 
maa ie emere lateral cl 
Stems Style-bran ne Nut flat . . . . 17. S. debilis. 
Stem acutely 3-angled. Style- branches 3. 
Spikelets many, Glumes entir . 18. S. mucronatus, 
Spikelets — 3. lama ted emarginate or | 
2-lo . 19. S. pungens. 
_ Spikelets i ina DE y terminal ‘simple or com- 
pound irregular emi re lius 
tevcbucrad bract very short, edi and rigid. Style- 
ches : 
Bristles filiform, with short reflexed cilia . 20. S. lacustris. 
‘Bristles. or scales flattened, plumose ‘with lax j 
21. S. littoralis. — 
Ioschueral bracts several, ` unequal, leaflike. "Style- 
Spikelets few "and la large (6 w T Mea Hypogynous 41:5; aiii 
Spikeiete very numerous in a compound in flores- 
ce 3 to. 4 lines long. La a al bristles 
very sy kias capillary and flexu . . 28, S, polystachyus. 
Secrtox I. IsorzPrs. —Hypogynous “bristles none or small amd 
rare 
The greater number of the Australian s small or slender, often anr ae 
and very different in aspect from the large pena "deri but the two or as the 
of the — d species assume the habit of the first two or three KEuscirp T2 
times. Ipara in S. supinus, whilst they Vi occasionally very 
or deficient in in 8. debilis 
L. S. humillimus, Benth—A dwarf plant forming dense tufts wi 
numerous small heads B spikelets, apparently radical at the ore se 
grass-like linear-filiform ROM nets 1 to 2 in. long, the real $ yn 
either unsens) ged or from it n. long, and . le afless below 
inflorescence. Heads of spikelets 2 if 3 lines diameter, the depres ad 
cluster je heads often 1. to 2 in. diameter. - Inyolue ral jedes seve 
Glume : ad 
oblong, rather obtuse, membranous with a dark centre formes. 
slightly prominent keel towards the end. No hypogynous opel 
Style-branches HA ts ut very small rather broad, triquetrous $r x 
with a small —Iso acaulis, F. Muell. in Herb : 
Han: Zeal, 
Se ri N 1. 302 in obs., not of KTA 
