Schænus.] CXLIII. CYPERACER. 361. 
subimberbis. Glumes very slightly fingod or Late ‘ela mirar 
P nia (partly), Nees in Pl. Preiss. ii. 81 = dr ragm. 
eygneus, rh l c. but not the Chetospora cygne feer hist, 
r. 1. vi. 49.—Swan ere scs, n. 1795 : Ese: n. 910, y ra d 
nm Sometimes this has almost the ug e S. pedicellatus, it is readily distin 
guished by the spikelets — sle. In this and some other aane the upper- 
most lowering glume and summ the eer are often swollen into a globular 
1 J Yo Qus mass, ” but parhave Me disease, as the enclosed nut i ^ generall 
e 
e r 
or 4 outer empty ones gradually shorter. No hypogynous bristles. 
Stamens 3. Nut Kil, prse or almost globular, obscurely 3-angle 
scarcely rugose.—F. Muell. Fragm. ix. 30: Isoschanus armeria, Nees 
m Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. L. vi. 49 and in Pl. Preiss. ii. 80. 
a Swan River, Dr ts lst coll. and n, 999, Darling Range, 
P688, n 1708 Stirling Range, F. Mue 
3. S. aphy llus, Bæckel. in Linnea, xxxviii. 280.—Stems tufted, 
donde 6 to 10 in. Y leafless — n: brown sheathing scales at 
shorter than the head or rarely 1 rather longer and We Spikelets 
rather numerous, brown, ovate-lanceolate, about 2 lines long, with 2 
actoria. On the Murra 
led to S. imberbis, but more veri the Poetas scale at the base of viv stem 
h and deeply coloured, the , Homann more numerous in a denser though small 
ead and not so black, the 
/435 8.1 imberbis, 2. Br. Prod. 231,—Stems slender, densely tufted, 
in. to above 1 ft. hi igh, leafless except brown sheathing scales at the 
base, oblique at the orifice, glabrous or minutely ciliate and us 
With a linear or subulate lamina of a few lines. Flower-head or cluster 
Solitary, terminal or rarely slightly lateral, sometimes rather loose and 
about > in. diameter. in volu local bracts shorter than the head or 
Tarely one rather longer and e Spikelets 6 to 20 in the head, 
narrow-lanceolate, black, straight o or T izbdy faleate, about 3 8 linee long, 
