962 CXLIIT. CYPERACEZ. [Sehonus.: 
with 2 flowers. Glumes obtuse or the outer ones acute, shortly ciliate 
towards the end or quite glabrous, 3 to 5 bell Pe empty and 
gradually shorter. No hypo dep bristles. Stamen Nut obovoid, 
very obtuse or retuse, obtusely 3-angled but oneni ribbed, rugose.— 
F. em Mese ix. 28; Sieb. Aids uas 
N. Port Jackson t z the Blue Mountains, R. Brown ; Leichhardt, 
ons my other southw: - to warra, .4. lisi) Kb, and granite rocks on the 
r, F. Mue 
vM 5. S. ericetorum, R. Br. Prod. 231.—Closely resembles S. imber- 
bis in every respect, except that the brown leaf-sheaths at the base of the 
stem are bearded at the orifice with short woolly hairs, pv Meis of 
spikelets rather looser sometimes forming a small corymb, w 1 or2 
lateral clusters on peduncles of 2 or 3 lines, but often quite as compact 
as in nt imberbis. Spikelets ua lanceolate, fully 3 lines long, rather 
urved aad acuminate than in S. imberbis, with 2 flowers as in that 
No Spo Hua bristles. Stamens and nut of S. iiborbél.: — Sieb. gros- 
pal n. 45; F. Muell. Fragm. ix. 28; Boeckel. in Linnea, xxxviii. 278. 
Port Jackson, R. Brown, F. Mueller, C. Moore and many others ; 
P ia beige Leichhardt 
W. Australian specimens from Drwmmond in herb. Hook. very much res e er 
te S. ericetorum, but the spikelets are in too imperfect a state to verify the 
ucture, 
ERIES IV. LATERALES.—Spikelets not above 2 lines long, in à single 
literal uem or cluster or rarely solitary, the erect evolat, ract con 
tinuing the stem. Hypogynous bristles present, ciliate 
Owing to the bract E the M rege being readily taken for one of e 
glumes, the few empty glum s and the very broad flowering ones enveloping ei. 
other, nidis a pyres at spud sight not to sias Mia an but the flexuose zigzag T t the 
with the centre of the scar of each g regularly on alternate sides show tha "a 
Mcd is ually Dua of other fion. im us imbricate all round as in Scirpus 
to which Boeckeler has caet ed the S. » 
16. S. nitens, Hook.f. Handb. N. Zeal. Fl. 299.—Stems from 3 
ereeping rhizome slender, from an inch or two to 1 ft. high. Leaves 
few at the base of the stem, short, terete but furrowed along the i; 
side, the vibrare not bearded. Involneral braet erect, continuing a» 
m to 3 to lj in. beyond the inflorescence. Spikelets in a pace 
cluster of 2 to 6 or solitary, apparently lateral, from ovoid to 0v0! 
breites 1i to 2 ies long, with 2 flowers and a normally guar 
ac Glumes , obtuse, not so distinctly pagan as In mo 
SR though ihe insertion i is really the same, 2 or rarely 3 hpc 
empty ones meee ee bristles 6, eae ge than t d 
nut, ciliate at the base with long hairs. Stam Nus or 
ieget iy angled sii and shining. 2 OR poró idan: R. 
k. f. Fl Tasm. ii. 82, F. Muell. Fragm. ix. 35 ; Seip 
ha eck Ya in Lionea, x xxxvi. 696. 
Queensland. Moreton Island, MGillivray, 
