444 CXLIII. CYPERACEJE. [ Carex. 
sheaths. Spikelets 4 to 6, cylindrieal, narrow, 11 to nearly 2 in. long, 
the terminal one male or with a few. female flowers at the top, 
the others female or with a few males at the top or at the base, all 
peduneulate, at first erect, but spreading or pendulous when in fruit. 
Glumes a rich brown, obtuse emarginate or shortly 2-lobed, the promi- 
nent midrib often produced into a short point. Utricle*sessile, ovate, 
flat, rather acute but not beaked, faintly several-nerved. Style- 
branches 2. 
N. S. Wales. New England, C. Stuart, C. Moore. 
Not matched with any extra-Australian species, though apparently in some 
measure allied to the North American C. crinita. 
18. C. fla 
the Australian specimens, often longer in northern ones, but rarely 
attaining 1 ft. Leaves as long or longer in the small varieties. Spike- 
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Utricles longer than the glume, very spreading or reflexed, ovoid, rather 
Tasmania. Port Dalrymple, R. Brown ; Alpine marshes, Gunn, Archer ; Swan- 
port, Story. 
Boott has already expressed his opinion that the Tasmanian plant is scarcely i 
be distinguished from the C. flava, widely distributed over the temperate meS is 
the northern hemisphere, and although in some specimens the beak of the utri de 
rather shorter, others appear to be quite similar to such of the northern ET be 
have the spikelets approximate. Story's specimens have smaller utricles like 
of the northern var. Rederi. 
19. C. Buxbaumii, Wahlenb. ; Kunth, Enum. ii. $52" ate 
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terminal one androgy , the male flowers at the base few onl "sed 
pying nearly the whole spikelet, the lower ones fe i 3 
leafy bract often a as the inflorescence. Glu 2 to neariy 
bout 13 lines long, not beaked, the orifice entir 439; 
2-toothed. Style-branches 3.— Boott, Ill. Car. iv. 136, t. 438, 439; 
kel. in Linnza, xl. 396 ; F, Muell. Fragm. viii. 252. 
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