440 CXLIM. CYPERACEX. [Carex 
- chlorantha, R. Br. Prod. 242.— Stems usually under 6 in. 
ken sometimes aboye i ft. high. Leaves mnch shorter. p 6 to 
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inflorescence. Me vate, 1 to 13 lines long, acute or mucronate, 
the keel usually gree Male flowers few at the top of the spikelet. 
Utricle as long as the Blum, much flattened, the edges ciliate, tapering 
into a short 2-toothed beak. Style-branches 2. t flat.—Hook 
- Tasm, ii, 99, t. 150; Boott, Ill. Car. iv. 171, t. 580, B; F. Muell. 
Bunav . 256. 
N. S. Wales. Port Jacksan, R. Bror 
— Ballan, Latrobe and eles “Riv rs, F. Mueller ; Ballarat, Bacchus. t 
asmania. Northern parts of the ofa dir. oy Ar ait and others ; Moun 
Wollte F. Mueller 
Var. composita. Spike slightly compound at the base, approaching the smaller 
varieties of C, panieulata.—Huon River, Gulliver. 
c. pani aniculata, Linn.; Kunth, Enum. ii. 389.—Stems attaining 
ial feet, 3-angled and often very acutely so, or when old more striate 
with the angles less prominent. Leaves varying from 1 to 4 lines 
ated the margins very scabrous. Spikelets Mee oe very nume 
rous in a narrow spike-like panicle, usually 3 to 6 in. long, but some- 
times much longer and interrupted at t the sd with short erect 
flattened, ovate, many-nerved, the margins gait or xo ciliate or prd 
os contracted into a short 2-toothed beak. Style- piper 
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eed wi; seis Ill. Car. i 46, t. 119, 120; Boeckel. in Linah 
- 99; C. virgata, Soland.; Boott, lc. t. 121, 122, Bæckel. ^ 
98; P Misi. p eun l. e. 100, partly. 
land. Rockhampton, 0’ Shanesy and others C. 
N. S. Wales, Port Jackson, R. Brow ta and many others; New England, 
p Newer Hastings River, €. Moore ; Clarence Riv ver, o ad. p. Mueller, 
ietoria. m the Sou th A Gi Land, ^ 
> u ustralian Uoti to Gipps oe 
Tasmania. Port d R.B ; abun 
f et "ue sa ri Dalrymple anà K Kent's Group, rown 
W. Australia, Drummond, n. 216, 272; Capel River, — D 
ar, subdiaphana, Leaves very glumes pale as in in C. declinata, b 
aisles breed and late as in C. Lg olson qo Hartman ; ; Rockhampto™ 
