332 CXLIII, CYPERACE JE. [ Scirpus. 
JN. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Sieber, Agrastathatil, 1.29, and other; 
Richmond River, Mrs. "aine ; Clarence River, Wilcox; Tweed River, » Guilfoy ? 
Lord Howe's em Fullaga 
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Tasmania. Brown ; common n on the sand hills of the northern shore, J. 
Hooker, Vin- 
S. Australia. Port Lincoln, R. Brown; Encounter Bay, Wilhelmi; St. 
cent’s pos T rice D 
W.A ia. King George's Sound, R. Brown, F. Mueller ; Swan River, ind 
inond, lst rd Does n. 38b Preiss, n. 1810; Gordon and Murchison Rivers, Oldfie 
ae macrostachya. Spikelets at length 4 or 65 i long. Glumes acute OT 
nate.—Murchison River, Oldfield ; Buffalo, Prie 
ET species is also in New Zealand, South ind and extratropical South 
Section II. Evsctrrvs.—Hypogynous bristles 3 to 8, very rarely 
deficient in some individuals. 
The first three Lagos have nearly the habit of the last two or three of the set tof qr 
Isolepis, the others all tall and stout. The S. acicularis, with the habi acters of 
goose slender satin: ‘of Heleocharis or Fimbristylis, but with the charac 
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uscirpus, 80 common in the temperate regions of the northern hemisphere, has not 
yet been found in Australia. 
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examined.—$S. juncoides, Roxb.; Kunth, Enum. ii. 160; S. supe 
var. B. and y. Beeckel. in Linnza, xxxvi. 700, 701 
N. Australia. Upper Victoria River and Sturt's Creek, F. Mueller. 
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uod, war neranatas, Linn; Kunth, Baum. i 101-—St St 
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ing scales at the base, the innermost due at tim oa M e 
short point. Spikelets rather numerous, in a dense rad sessile CU*. 
ter; the erect involucral brac perfectly continuous with the pe eg lines 
lto 2 in. long. Spikelets Mroskeblong, 4 to 6 lines long, 2 » T 
oc pale brown.  Glumes ovate, concave, obtuse or almost "often 
membranous, more or less striate, the keel prominent and 
