Beirpus.] CXLIIL CYPERACEX. 335 
22. S. marit , Linn.; Kunth, Enum. ii. 167.—Rhizome creep- 
ing, often keien into hard tubers. Stems 1 to 3 ft. high, trique- 
cluster. Involueral bracts few, the lowest long lea afy and erect, ap- 
E ontinning the stem, the others short or 1 or 2 of them lo ong 
eatli i 
nous bristles 6 or fewer, mostly yide than then Stamens 2 or 3. 
Style-branches 3 or r rarely 2. Nut in the typical "to broad, — 
black when ripe, the inner face flat. or nearly so, the back convex or 
obtusely angled —Beckel. in Linnea, xxxvi. 722 ; R. Br. Prod. 294; 
ook, f. ES ovg ii. 89; F. Muell. Fragm. ix. 8; Reichb. Te. Fl. 
p Queensland. East coast, R. Brown; Port Molle, ict ad OM Creek, 
prepa Condamine River, Leichhardt ; Brisbane River, — C. Stuart, 
- S. Wales. Port Jackson, A. Brown; Paramatta and Ri ced. Woolls ; 
x. 
Victoria, Yarra Riv. ver, Adamson, F. Mueller, Lake Colac, F. Mueller 
asmania. Abundant in salt and brackish marshes , J. D. Hooker 
S. Australia. Bethanie, F, Mueller 
w Australia. Swan River, Drummond, n, 936; Murchison River, Oldfield ; 
more Jiwwiatilis, Stem 3 to 5 ft. high, acutely 3-angled. Involucre and inflorescence 
nom de veloped than in the Lies Lm Nut equ. y iava us.—S. fluviatilis, 
and Tay; F. Muell. (ini To this variety belong most of the Queensland 
N. S. Wales spec Bin dios gil es Brown's, from Port Jackson, which he 
Suishes as var. 8 from his typical Queensland specimens. Some from the lower 
any obertson's Victoria specimens are said to be 5 ft. high, Eu i s stems ub stout 
i © nuts variable, usually as it were intermediate between 0 common forms. 
Old Mel xtends over the tropical and temperate regions both. of the New and the 
3 i Polystachyus, F. Mut. in Md Phil. Soc. Vict, i. 108, m. 
long as or longer than the stem.  Umbel large loose and hse. 
E raap ies rather slender rays, the longest 3 or 4 in. long. Spikelets 
oblo red on the partial rays or distinctly but shortly pedicellate, OUR! 
ob ng, 3 to 4 ae long, and 1} to near 2 lines diameter. Glum 
m 
T6 gynous bristles about M c: slender and flexuose, 
tie tee "s the nut. Style-branches 3. Nut broad, the 
k convex or obtusely angled. 
