Carex. | CXLIII. CYPERACEZ. 443 
257 ; C. Gaudichaudiana, Kunth, Enum. ii. 417 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 
99, t. 151 A; C. cespitosa, R. Br. Prod. 242, and of most early authors. 
Termin Bri em iet Bailey. 
E rt Jackson, R. Brown; cobb Plains, A. Cunningham ; 
Now Engl C. sideris Ma rie River, C. Mo 
Victoria. Numerous localities both in low a n and in the mountains, F. Mueller 
and others ; Glenelg River, Robertson ; Mount William, Sullivan, 
rota Port vis ne rymple, R. Brown ; abundant both in low lands and the 
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tralia. From St. Vincent’s Gulf to the Murray River, F. Mueller and 
The species is abundant and widely spread over the temperate regions the 
northern hemisphere. "us numerous varieties have been detailed at ned the 
oott he A w Z ugh 
ength by Boott, l.c stralian form which i in 
correctly reduced by Boott to the comprehensive C. vulgaris, Fries, appears pm 
nevertheless to be quite as distinct from some of its northern forms are from 
the special S a orm to which Frie la t the C. cespitosa, Linn., a 
er much examination and comparison T xem concl I had 
formerly come to that the — d Dosi and R. Brown and other older 
authors, ought to be reunited under the Linnean name of C. pombe 
16. C. a s Linn.; Kunth, Enum. ii. 412.—A tall species, very 
closely allied t io gom mae varieties of C. vulgaris, the spikelets usually 
lo onger and more numerous and the glumes narrow and acute or short 
Muell. Fragm. viii. 259; C. Ounninghamii, Boott, Ill. Car. iv. 171, t. 
9/9; C. MES i Muell. in Trans. Phil. Soc. Vict. i. 110, and in 
Hook. Kew Journ 
Qeens land. Moreton Bay, Leichhardt. 
8 N. S. ks - dia on River, A. Cunningham; New England, C. 
tuart Clarence River, Wile 
Vie ictoria, Valleys near rue Hotham, F. Mueller. 
ite Species is spread o , Northern Asia hes No : 
ustralian form has ar doe Eg more numerous spikelets than usual in the 
res ones, vu I can find no other difference, Md some European specimens 
^Ppear to be qui bool 
lobolepis, F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 258.—Stems 1 to 2 ft. 
high. d TAS "rigid. Leaves sometimes as long, the vocis 
h to 
Racers generi torn in 
inflorescence, with very sage 
