396 CXLIII OYPERACER. [.Lepidosperma. 
to 22 in . long, the arenes short or the lower ones pi at all erect. 
Spikelets crowded along the panels or rarely singly scattered, about 
2 lines long, with 1 ida flower beside the perfect one Glumes 
acute or the lower ones obtuse and mucronate, 3 or 4 outer ones empty 
and shorter. Scales under the nut acuminate but not setiferous. 
W. Australia. King George's Sound, R Brown, Walcot; also Drummond, 
n. 870, 873, 976. 
in Linnz 
L. lineare, var. humile, Nees in Pl. Preiss. ii. 90, Preiss. n. 1810 (L. humile, Backel. 
innza, xxxviii. 324), appears to me to be a short-stemmed form of L. gracile. 
> F. Muell.; Beckel. in Linnea, xxxviii sg à 
Stems vere; i to odi ft. high, sometimes terete but d somewha a 
flattened, with obtuse edges, } to i line broad. Leaves shorte 
Panicle spikelike, ao reduced to a sings we as ne? 
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late Marie the others more ; glumelike but striate. Spikelets linear- 
occae straight or faleate, erect or spreading, about 4 lines lo nost 
wi a borai flower besides the perfect one. pia ering glumes almos 
Queenscliff “and Mount Sturgeon, F. Mueller; Mount Sturgeon, 
ia. Mount Lofty Ranges and Lake Alexandrina, F. Mueller. 
Perhaps a variety of L. gracile, but with much larger and fewer ee Tow 
allied also to Z. canescens, but the leaves, though very narrow, usually quite #a 
Victoria. 
Robertson. 
S. A 
Secrion V. "TERETICAULES. — Stems slender, terete or anes 
seas. or slightly and irregularly compressed. Leaves nearly smitar. 
4. L. pubisquameum, Steud. Syn. Glum. ii. 158.—Stews es 
but rigid, 1 to 14 ft. high, nearly terete or angular and furrowe " 
one side. Leaves similar but shorter. Panicle aonkrates into à duc 
ovoid or almost globular compound cluster rarely 4 in. long, the om 
tending bract ore from a grees hing base, usually erect epee 
W. Australia, Drummond, n. 250 (350 according to Steudel). 
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25. L. canescens, Beckel. in Linnea, xxxviii. 330.—Stems l iih 
ft. high, terete or very ory light pecs: smooth. Leaves m se 
shorter, terete but usually grooved al inner side. 
t - 
renal, not very compound, 1 to 2 in. "ted the branches 8 slightly 
