Scirpus. j OXLIIT. CYPERACER. 333 
green in the upper part. Hypogynous bristles 6 or fewer, usually 
longer than the nut. Style-branches 3. Nut rather eme generally 
dark eoloured, the broad inner face flat, the back convex or angled.—R. 
r. Prod. 223 ; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. 303; Bockel. in Titulo xxxvi, 
703; F. Muell. dac ix. 8. 
Queensland. Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, F. Mueller, C. Stuart, “ergy 
Datntree i Fitzalan; ; Burnett River, F. Mueller ; Rockingham Bay, Dallac 
N. S. W. Paterson: River, R. Brown ; Claren nce River, Beckler, "di 
Tweed River, ‘Bilin: Richmond River, JFoolis. 
Also in tropical and temperate Asia and in Europe. 
"d face ven the back convex or "with a prominent di ie a in 
nna, xxxvi 708; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. x. 304; F. Muell. Fra 
oe &. triqueter, R. Br. Prod. 228 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 89, not of 
Vict Near Mount Emu, Lake Colac, Hopkins River, etc.; F. Mueller ; 
mouth of th the Glenelg, Allitt. 
asmania. Derwent River, R. Brown; near Hobarton, Gunn; Macquarrie 
Torrens River and Crystal Brook, F, Mueller; Port Lincoln, 
. Australia. Drummond, 4th coll. n, 359. 
NS nanus. Stems 2 Leaves almost radical. Spikelets small and 
Ty.—Lake Colac, F. rodea died rather a starved state than a varie 
And. ar. è longisetis, Bristles much aree than the nut.—Lake Eyre, South Australia, 
M" The spikelets spear 3 o be several imbricate in a Penpoud d indie 
* of $ in., but the single specimen insufficient for accurate 
The Species is also in New nemi in extra-tropical North and South America, and 
of the western Mediterranean r » 
d INC T TU os as a te Enum. ii 164.—Stems stout, 3 
hé. high, terete or obtusely triquetrous at the mer leafless except 
: d lots sheathing scale sometimes continued into a short erect 
lamina, Spikel 
irre 1 
ing lateral, but the erect involucral bract Meaning: the stem usually 
much naka than the inflorescence, nearly teret on the 
