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other West Australian specimens, and ty eri dia also Sieber's specimens, Agros- 
totheca n. 20, which however may not be Australian 
. Nees describes his J. notata. as monandrous, but, " a dr 8 specimen’s both 1751 
and 1752, I have found 3 stamens or in one flower 
Some specimens from Victoria, F. Mue ller, in Herb. Kew., without the jm 
station, have usually more than 6 spikele ets in the cluster and the 
of un glumes longer and slightly recurved, but they appear to belong A "this 
specie 
n S. Bergianus, correctly identified with the S. cartilagineus, is tales in South 
eee and in New Zealand. 
1. S. squarrosus, Linn.; Bockel. in Linnea, xxxvi. 734, var. 
Dietrichia. —Stems slender, tufted, 3 to 6 in . high or rarely more. 
Leaves Shorter, setaceous. Spi plots 3 to 6 to ether in a vpn 
usually 1 to 2 in. long, the others much shorter. dare ts Gott: 
conical, 1$ to 2 lines long or at length rather elongated with the lower 
S'umes very deciduous so as to appear pedicellate. Glumes very 
nu 
mo 3 branches 2 or 3. Nut i e Australian variety very oris 
t linear, slightly compressed. parr cirpus Dietrichie, Beckel. 
Flora, 1875, 109 (from the char. given). 
ustralia. In the interior, lat 179 50’, M* Dougal Stuart’ s Apu 
Somn Rockhampton, Amalia Dietrich, if correctly identified. 
4 The ilpecis (Isolepis squarrosa, ation. et Schult.; Kunth, Enum 202), extends 
Bide pical Asia and Africa, but the nut is there usually Budd and shorter 
inour A rien 8 Hs 
rm 
r one more frequently subulate and longer than the cluster, 
attaining 3 in, T ovate-oblong, rather acute, rarely 
lumes 
striate ‘et a peas keel produced into a short point, the si 
i rarely E coloured throughout, end then often dotted. 
ous bristles, St tamens always 1 only and very frequently the ent 
persistent at the back of the nut. Style-branches 3; rarely 2. Nut 
ad, equally and prominently 3-angled or more or less 
d, smooth, the terminal point minute,—Isolepis inundata and 
& Ta ndun, R. Br. Prod. 222; dm Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 87, 
144, not of R; Br. ; 2, conspersa in Endl. Prod. Pl. Norf. 23°; 
