Uneinia. | CXLIH. CYPERACER. 435 
aene. Derwent River, R. Brown ; Cuming's Head, Archer ; Southport, C. 
wart. 
4. U. orien. F. Muell. fágh. vii. 151.— Stems filiform, 6 in. to 
above 1 ft. lon Logro ernie: er, m narrow linear, mens 
. lon 
leaf often several inches long. Male flowers rather numerous. Stamens 
narrow, exceeding the glume, but not seen far advanced. 
Pocket Seiad nearly twice.as long as the a 
Lord Howe's Island, summit of Mount Gower, Fullagar. Very 
N. S. Wales. 
closely allied d ee New Zealand U, leptostach ya, ing slightly in the more 
acuminate glu 
32. CAREX, Linn. 
Flowers unisexual, in unisexual or androgynous spikelets. Glumes 
imbricate all round the rhachis. Stamens in the males 3 or rarely 
ewer, without hypogynous bristles or salos Ovary in the females 
enclosed in a boft tle-shaped or inflated utricle or perigynium, contracte 
at the top, with a small oblique or 2-toothed orifice, and at the base of 
the ovary within the utricle is often a bristle (a barren pedicel) usually 
Very small, not hooked, rarely protruding from the utricle and entirely 
Wanting in many species. Style protruding with 2 or e operis stig- 
matic branches. Nut flattened or 3-angled, enclosed in t 
enlarged persistent utricle.— Perennials wi -like Mae mostly 
radic n the lower part of the stem. Spikelets Eika solitary and 
Tm or few, one terminal the others more or less distant, sessile or 
pedun , in a terminal panicle or compound spike. e 
This genus, the largest among C bundant in the tem: te and cooler 
perace:, is a pera 
egions of both hem ispheres d ip mountainous districts within the — with a 
few A oiis aven in the hotter region us it is technically ted from 
ucinia by the absence ey s hook ra ‘the ae fe of the female tower s although i ina 
Th, Decien not Australian it occasionally grows out into a flowe uncle. 
The genus is widely separated from all others by the utricle m well as habit. 
7 Species are however very difficult to c and define. Dr. Boott's ble 
ustrations as well as s specimens and careful deseri ptions have given the 
de. phen so itae ien but he d cs a not yet published his views 
eas soli JP hen NT oe 
Spikelet over many flower. 8 Siyle-branches 2. . 1, C. eephaloten 
Spikelet t small, 2 - to 4-flo pes ae ee 3. iid 
Outer bract elongated su . 2. C. acicularis. 
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