442 CXLIII,. CYPERACEEX. [Carea. 
C. Dietriehie, Boeckel. in Flora, 1875, 122, from Port Mackay, Amalia Dietrich, is 
‘om th 
fr e character given, probably the same species. 
very prominently many-nerved, pubescent, with a long beak.— Boot, 
l. Car. i iii 
Il 
Queensland. Brisbane River, Bailey. ed 
N. S. Wales. Grose River, R. Brown (a particularly slender narrow- - : 
form) ; New England, C, Stuart; Macleay River, Beckler ; Lord Howe's Island, C. 
Moore, Fullagar. 
14. C. contracta, F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 258.—Stems Beo 
slender, 1 to 2 ft. long. Leaves long and narrow, the floral leaves 
ovate orelliptical, about 12 lines long, shortly stipitate and ee 
i ry short truneate or scarcely 2-toothed beak, with "d 
t nerves on each face. Style-branches 2. Nut flat, nearly 
orbicular, much shorter than the utricle. 
N. S. Wales. Tenterfield and Timbarra, New England, C. Stuart. 
ED 33 
Scarcely distinct from the New Zealand C. Raoulii, Boott, Ill. Car. iii. 109, t. 339, 
and very near some forms of C. vulgaris. 
15. C. vulgaris, Fries, 
169, t. 567.— Stems tufted or emitting creeping stolones, from à ally 
inches to 2 or 8 ft. high. Leaves often longer than the stem and usua"; 
green midrib. Utricle very flat, from orbicular to ovate, usually — 
than the glume, more or less distinetly several-nerved, obtuse acu viii 
tapering into a short beak. Style ches 2.—F. ell. ; 
