434 CXLHI, CYPERACER. f Uncinia. 
the glume, the orifice with 2 small obtuse teeth. Hooked bristle nearly 
twice as long. Nut narrow, 3-angled, nearly as long as the utricle.— 
Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 102, t4152 Ay F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 151; 
Carex tenella, Poir. Dict. Suppl. iii. 282." 
oria. Sealer's Cove, Dandenong Mountains, mie Baw-Baw, source of the 
Yarra and Goulburn and Upp er Tyers Rivers, F. Mueller. lack 
Derwent River, R. Brown; moist woods, Hobarton "n — 
im Gunn ; g Westen rn mountains, Archer ; Mount Wellingto on, Gulliver ; South- 
rt, C. Stua Some Line pon near Lake St. Clair, F. Mueller, are dopauper- 
pity with diy. 3 or 4 female flow: 
The New Zealand U, filiformis is very closely allied to this species. 
mpacta, R. Br. Prod. 241. — Stems in open situ ations 2 
or 3 in. high, rigid, with brown inflorescence, in shady moist localities 
6 in. to near 1 ft. long, with a pale-coloured spikelet. Leaves as long 
or shorter, rarely much above 1 line broad. Spikelet oblong, dense pi 
slightly interrupted at the base, 2 to 1 in. long, the lowest 1 or 
glumes or bracts sometimes roduced into a leaflike point. Glumes 
of the hook bear a male and a female flower with small „glumes. e 
shorter than the utricle, 3-angled.— Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 108, t. " 
; F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 152; Carex compacta, Poir. Dict. Supp 
iii, 282. 
Victoria. — Baw-Baw, at an elevation of pegi a 4000 ft., F. Mueller 
rwern nt River. . R. Br own ; summit unt Wellington, Gn T 
Mueller ; iion Pind C. Stuart ; Western Miniter Archer ; Mo 
East, F. M: 
U. nervosa, ER in Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 102, t. 153 A, is founded on & singe 
specimen which appears to me to be a narrow-leaved state of U. compacta. t 
U. divaricata, Boott, from New Zea land, referred to U. compacta z eae 
Handb. N. Zeal. Fl. 309, differs slightly in the many-nerved glumes an 
longer utricles, 
3. U. riparia, R. Br. Prod. 241.—Stems slender, 1 to 12 ft. pe^ 
Leaves as long or longer, linear, about 1 line broad. Spikelet i al 
in, long, the male flowers 3 or E only at the top, the fem : 
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3000 
Victoria. U H Ri an elevation of 
to 4000 f, È. Mais. ume. ver and Mount Kosciusko at 
