Schenus. | OXLITI. CYPERACER. 363 
Victoria. Maritime pastures from Melbourne to Gipps’ Land, F. Mueller, Adam- 
son and others. 
Tasmania. rt 
hills, north coast, Gunn and others. 
S. Australia. Port Lincoln, R. Brown; Spencer’s Gulf, F. Mueller. 
W. Australia. King George's Sound, R. Brown ; also Drummond, n. 385. 
The species is also in New Zealand, and apparéntly the same in extra-tropical 
South America. 
Dalrymple and Kent's Group, Bass’s Straits, R. Brown ; sand 
ers 
17. S. cygneus, Nees in Pl. Preiss. ii. 81 (as to the syn.).—Stems 
very slender, 6 to 9 in. high. Leaves at the base of the stem short, 
subulate, the sheaths bearded at the orifice, the older outer ones 
dark brown and rigid. Involucral bract subulate, continuing the 
stem £ tó 11 in. beyond the inflorescence. Spikelets 2 or 3 
together or rarel solitary, sessile and apparently lateral, lanceo- 
late, not much flattened, dark brown or black, 14 to 2 lines long, with 
usually 2 flowers. Glumes very acute or mucronate, scarcely fringed 
or quite glabrous, about 4 outer empty ones of which 2 or 3 short. 
lypogynous bristles or scales 6, very short, flat, hyaline and deeply 
divided. Stamens 3. Nut obovoid, slightly 3-ribbed, smooth or nearly 
80.—Beeckel. in Linnea, xxxviii. 276 ; Ohetospora cygnea, Nees in Ann. 
Nat. Hist. ser. 1, vi. 49, but not the plant described in Pl. Preiss. ii. 81. 
W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, 1st coll. 
i In this and some other species the small bristles deeply divided into or fringed by 
ong cilia have been sometimes described as hairs on the torus. 
SERIES V. Oxrgostacuy.2—Dwarf plants or rarely above 6 in. 
Spikelets solitary or 2 very rarely 3 or 4 together, all terminal and erect. 
Hypogynous bristles none or when present some or all very short. 
18. S. minutulus, F. Muell. Fragm. ix. 82.—A dwarf but densely 
tufted perennial. Stems rather rigid, 1 to 2 in. high, leafless except 
broad brown sheathing scales at the base, sometimes produce i a 
short subulate lamina. Spikelets terminal, erect, solitary or 2 together, 
the subtending bract with a leafy point shorter or longer than the 
Spikelet, the spikelet scarcely 2 lines long, lanceolate, brown, with 2 
flowers, lumes obtuse or the inner ones membranous at the top, 
about 3 outer empty ones gradually shorter. No hypogynous bristles. 
tamens 6 (or 3 only F. Mueller). Nut small, ovoid, obtuse, seated 
on à thick raised torus, minutely granular, but not seen quite ripe. 
W. Australia, Drummond. 
s 
= much shorter. Spikelet about 2 lines long, ual flat, with 2 or 3 
G obtuse, dark brown with light-coloured 
margins, about 4 outer empty ones gradually rather shorter. Bristles 
fed Stamens not seen. Nut ovoid, 3-angled, tubercular-rugose, seated 
on a short stipe B. j 
