Carex. | CXLIII. CYPERACEA. 445 
Extends over Europe, Northern Asia and North America ; the Australian specimens 
hn generally longer and kope ye a than the northern ones, but closely 
semble a few of Hoppe’s from South y 
20. C. pumila, Thunb. ; Boott, Ill. Car. iv. 217. —Rhizome n 
ereeping in the sands to a great extent. Stems 4 to 8 in. high. Lea 
longer, more rigid than in OC. breviculmis, tapering into os 
subulate points. Spikelets 3 to 6, the terminal one male, narrow, 2 to 
distant, sessile or the lowest shortly peduneulate, j to $ in. long. 
p PI. Él Holl. ii. 69, t. 219; R. Br. Prod. 243; Hook. f. 
sm 
S Moreton Island, M‘Gillivray w, F. Vibia: 
Hastings River, Beckler ce Riv Beckler, ge cox, 
l sea-shores and also S gray Th r banks; inland in 
ide d «HR the pic rivers, F. Mue 3 Portland and Wendu Rivas Robert. 
Son ; Glenelg pe Allitt mera. nit 
ia. Port Telus R. Brown ; eer shores, common, J. D. Hooker 
and others. 
S. Australia. Crystal brook, Torrens and Gawler Rivers, F. Mueller. 
21m in New Zealand, along the eastern coasts of Asia and in extratropical South 
eri 
l. C. b culmis, R. 
LUE high but in northern Rad T ft. o ore. Leaves Dd 
the Australian specimens longer than the he re lower floral bracts 
often very i a on narrow, the upper ones or Mil rarely all abort and 
| S iv. 
Fl. Tasm. ii. 101, Fl. Nov. = t. 63; F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 255; 
Royleana, Boott, ll. Car. i. 6, t. 19. 
N. S. Wales, Port Jackson, R. Brown (small dwarf specimens), Woolls ; New- 
