438 OXLIIL. CYPERACEJE. [ Carex. 
The Victorian specimens, with 3 or 4 male flowers as well as females, —— 
New Zealand ones. Archer's Tasmanian ones are more slender, with the spi 
epaupera 
state of.the same plant. The erect subulate bract, besides the size of the spikelet 
than the utricle.—Bceckel. in Linnea, xxxix. 37; O. simplicissima, F. 
Muell. Fragm. ix. 191. 
N.S. Wales. Clarence River, Wilcox. 
Also in the eastern Himalayas, Sikkim and Bootan. 
A i : ikelets 3 to 5, 
a few inches to above 1 ft. hi gh. Leaves shorter, narrow. Spikele d 
all sessile in a terminal cluster or short spike, rarely reduced to a sing 
A 8; 
androgynous, ovate, 3 to 6 lines long. Outer leaflike bracts 1 to 
! green. t- ikelet, more fre- 
spikelet sometimes numerous occupying half the spikele '2 males at 
quently few only and sometimes quite deficient, rarely 1 or 
e i F 
: g 
obovate, several-nerved, wi een ciliate edges, tapering iu in the 
beak short in th typieal form, nearl 8 um 
: pag = Og 
; lll. Car. iv. 151, t. 486 to 488; Hook. f. Fi. Tasm. 1. vv? 
- in Linnza, xxxix. 69; F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 252. 
irren Brisbane and Dawson Rivers, F. Mueller ; Rockhampton, ? Shanesy, 
Dailachy i Jand, 
_N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 543, Woolls ; ye egies 
potes Hastings and Macleay Rivers, €. Moore; Head of 
ardt, 
f Mount 
ia. Wendu Vale, Robertson ; Yarra, Mitta Mitta and Hume Rivers, 
Buller, Darebin Creek, P omer Creswick, Whan ; Ballarat, Bacchus. 
"Tasmania. South Esk River, Gunn. 
ount Barker, F. Mueller. 
wW. Drummond, n, 922. 
Var. major. Stems 1; to 23 ft. high.  Utricles 2 lines long, prominently i 
with a long beak, Brisbane fiver F. Mueller ; Clarence River, Wilkos. 
The species-is also in New Zealand. 
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