Scirpus. ] CXLIII. CYPERACES. . 827 
the second bract much shorter, rarely the spikelet solitary and lateral, 
shorter than the involucral bract. Spikelets i tsp tag te, 3 to 
ue Jo ong, r rath ner more than 1 ine | road, m r less flattened. 
striate, often brown. N Man ogynous bristles. Stamens 2. sy e- 
a Nut brown, flat or biconvex.—Zsolepis cyperoides, R. Br. 
Australia. g George's Sound and neighbouring districts, R. Brown, 
Drummond, n. 43 tan 920, Oldfield, F. Mueller. 
8. S. setaceus, Linn.; Bockel. in Linnea, xxxvi. 500 partly.— 
Stems tufted, filiform or subulate, mostly 1 to 3 in. but sometimes 6 
to 8 in. long. Leav ves et short and filiform. Spikelets solitary or 
gynous bristles 
Stamens 3, rarely 2. Stvle-branches 3. small, globular or obo- 
Void, more or less distinctly 3-ribbed and marked by longitudinal strize 
or furrows ——Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 301; Isolepis setacea, R. r. Prod, 
Se ‘Kunth, Enum. ii. 193; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 88; T. multicaulis, 
hlecht. Linnea, xx. 562. 
EE ^a Wales. Macleay River, Beckler ; Clarence River, Wileoz ; New England, 
E a. Snowy Mi F. Mueller, near mount William, Sullivan, - 
S. : _ Near enquite, Mme Lime en u^ ao € 
arossa Range, Behr. I have n these — but 
Schl 
Mochtendahl expressly describes the pats of the fas 8. setaceus 
Australia. Sti 
dis Pical form, "mig confounded with S. eater has been satisfactorily identi- 
e; f the Old World, ay extratropical regions in the 
orn as well as in "the northern hemisph: 
E 9. S. ri riparius, Spr preng. Syst. i. 208.— Very closely allied to. S. 
ao and referred to it as a variety by Beckeler, differing only in 
m nut, which is smooth or minutely cene s up the prominent 
ne and furrows of S. — It varies much in form, sometimes 
eus 
ien 9r more fednéitly i in i Australis an specimens with a 
; the back ye very convex or obtusely angled but these eet pass so 
Teng į iy one into another as to make it very difficult to sort the speci- 
ror nto distinct varieties. The nut is always nee e. never so 
ety 3-angled as in S. cartilagineus.—Jso riparia, r. 
e; p 22; Nees in Pl. Preiss. ii. 74; Hook. £. Fl. Tasm. i. 89, t. 145, 
Saviana, Schult. ; Kunth, Enum. ii. 193; Hook. f. l.c. ii. 88; 
