334 CXLIII. CYPERACER. [Scirpus. 
inner side and dilated at the base. Spikelets ovoid and about 4 lines 
long or at length oblong-cylindrical and in. long, brown coloured. 
tipped with a small point or tubercle.— Boeckel. in Linnza, XXXVI. 712; 
i Br. Prod. 223; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. x. 306; F. Muell. Fragm. 15. 
aasad. Port Denison, Fitzalan; Barcoo Downs, Birch; Rockhan p 
Zet, 
-S. Wales. Port Jackson and Hunter's River, R. Brown; New England, 0 
Stuart ; Richmond River, Woolls, ller ; 
Skipton Wi aM River, Robertson; Port Phillip, Gun»; Yarra, F. Mua 
asmania. Derwent River, F. Mueller. 
S. Australia. Port Adelaide, F. Mueller. 
W. Australia iver, Preiss, n. 1872; Murchison River, Oldfield. 
Extends over both the New and the Old World, chiefly in extra-tropical regions 
21. S. littoralis, Schrad.; Kunth, Enum. ii. 166.—A tall su 
species, with the habit and inflorescence of S. lacustris. Stems —- 
or 3-angled towards the apex, 2 to 5 ft. high, leafless except the — 
ing scales at the base often ending in short erect lamin. [ort 
looser and less compound than in S. lacustris, with fewer spikelets = 
us ikelets oblong or cylindrical, often above 4 i long wi 
full grown and about 2 lines Pincus Glumes broad, scarious, often 
pale coloured, entire or sii ly emarginate. nous bristles 
ules 4 o or 6, much flattened, plumose with soft rather p 
hairs d pwards. Stamens usually 3. Style-branches ae, hb 
broad, much flattened, tipped by a small point or tubercl Reic d 
LG ; F. Muell. Fragm. i umosus, È Br. Fro 
m. 1X. 7. 3.9 ate E 
223 3 S. triqueter, Gren. et Godr. Fl. Fr. iii. 373 ; Boeckel. in Linn, 
xxxvi. 716, not of Linn.; Malacochete littoralis, Nees. 
N. Australia. Gulf of C. i , ; Victoria Biv 
X Made; Roper Rivet, Oulton Pm Mules wart 
ene Broad Sound, R. Brown ; Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, C. Sivan 
N.S. Wales. Paramatta, Woolls. 
i esie Mediterranean region, at least I am unable to detect any diff their 
in i from the two distant areas. Grenier and ile OY gs 
interpretation of ko Linnean re this 
1 y the specimen in his herbari the 
hib he refers, proves to have been susur ag Pale by Kunth and others 
ce described by Grenier and Godron under the name of S. Pollichii, the oes 
character | two species derived from the hypogynous 
or scales was overlooked both by Linnzus and by Schrader. 
