Scheenus. | CXLIIL CYPERACER. 375 
Leaves at the base of the stem few and very narrow, with brown 
sheaths. Floral leaves or bracts veni along the stem with short 
sheaths and linear laminz, varying from very hoe to l or 2 in. Spike- 
lets several together in little clusters or short spikes in the axils of the 
floral leaves, or the upper ones sometimes solitary, linear, 3 to 34 lines 
long, with 3 to 6 flowers. Glumes membranous, brown or M: ost 
hyaline, narrow, the outer ones gradually shorter, but all enclosing 
flowers except the terminalone. Hypogynous bristles none or rarely 
2 or 3 very slender and not plumose. Stamens 3. Nut ovoid, pron: 
W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, 1st coll. n. 915 or 916, Preiss, n. 1863, 
1745. The latter has more the habit but not the plumose bristles of S. humilis. 
Sessile or pis aera dy in the axils of the leaves or leafy bracts, 
about 1 line Jong, somewhat flattened, with 1 perfect flower. Glumes 
obtuse, glabrous, brown with green keels, 2 or rarely 3 outer empty 
ones shorter. ie bristles 6 or sometimes fewer, about as long 
as the nut. Stamens 3. Nut s mall, obovoid, white or ash-coloured, 
3-ribbed, smooth or hers ad ideaa: —Ohetospora axillaris, R. Br. 
Prod. 233 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 82; Fl. Nov. Zel. t. 62; Boeckel. in 
Linnea, xxxviii. 289 ; F. Muell. Fragm ix. 34; Helothriz pusilla, Nees 
in Ann, Nat t. Hist. ser. l, vi 
N. S. Wales, Nepean River. R. pine 
Victoria. Marshes , Snowy River, F. Nul Grampians, Sullivan. 
Tasmania, Marshy ema nae rise Gunn ; pe port, C. Stuart. 
S. Australia, Suara fty Range, F. Mue 
: Australia, ee 
The species is also in New Zealand. 
2. S. anms Z Mb dwarf tufted plant, the filiform stems 
s E i igh in our specimens. Leaves nearly as long, capillary, 
flaccid, vith araa matag bre sheaths. Spikelets 1 terminal and 
all very narrow-linear, about 2 lines long, with 2 or 3 flowers. Glume 
very narrow, mem ranous, pale-coloured, rather a 1 or 2 e 
REP ones shorter and more acuminate. No hypogynous 
Stamen 1, ae very slender. Nut obovoid-oblong, but not ipe 
in our specimen 
nW: Aus M Drummond, n, 927. Evidently allied to S. fluitans, but different 
habit, and the stamen appears to be always solitary. 
53. S. natans, Benti.—Stems submerged, capillary, branched and 
