446 CXLIII. CYPERACER. [ Carex. 
castle, Leichhardt ; Lord Howe's Island, top of Mount, Lingbird, C. Moore ; high on 
seg SUN Fullagar. 
Wendu Vale, Robertson; Yarra River, Darebin Creek and Munyang 
Mouniains, F. Mueller. 
ania, Gunn ; Cheshunt, Archer. 
qus in New Zealand, the Himalayas and Japan. 
. C. Preissii, Nees in Pl. Preiss. ii. 94.—Scarcely distinct from 
c Imis. Stems tufted, under 1 ft. high, slender. Leaves often 
longer, narrow, the lower floral ones or outer bracts similar, the upper 
ones smaller or glume-like. Spikelets 3 to 6, cylindrical, the terminal 
one.male, 4 to 2 in. long and often close to it 1 or 2 small androgynous 
ones, the others distant, either androgynous with a few male flowers at 
the top or entirely female, all erect and sessile or on very short 
peduncles. Male glumes oblong, «ses or mucronate, with scarious 
base, tapering into a short beak, the angles often serrulate-ciliate, the 
nie rather faintly nerved. Style-branches 3.—Boott, Ill. Car. i. 
t. 186 dd Muell. Fragm. viii. 251; C. thecata, Boott in Trans. Linn. 
Soc. xx. 143. 
stralia. n River, Drummond 1st coll. wre n. 921, Preiss, n. 1861, Old- 
‘held: i eee ‘land Preiss, n. 1825; Vasse River, Prie 
23. unniana, Boott in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 143, Ill. Car. i 
68, t. 185. — Stems 6 in. to 2 ft. high. Leaves often as long, narrow or 
rather broad, the lower floral ones or outer bracts similar, the upper 
smaller, but all except the last longer than the inflorescence. Spike: 
lets 3 to 6, neqiie the term one male, 2 to 1j in. long, ze 
sometimes 1 or 2 small male ones M vin under it, "the others female e 
distant or the uppermost close to the males, all ‘erect sessile or short , 
peduneulate and as long as the terminal Male glumes oblong 
or almost ovate, obtuse or acute, with scarious e prd 
aii 
stipitate.— Hook. f. Fl. Tas s Via F. Muell. b viii. ii 931. 
N. S. Wales. Darling Riv d 
Victoria. Dargo, Mitchell aad rdi: s Rivers, Maroka Valley, Baw-Baw ke 
Moris Mountains, ascending to 6000 ft., F. Mueller. 
n; Cheshunt, diee 
s. Australia. Mount Lofty Ranges, F. Mue 
C. barbata, Boott, Ill. Car. i. 68, t. 187, from es Norfolk, vide appears to me 
to be a slight variety of C. Gunniana, with darker coloured glumes, but the SRi 
cimens are in flower only with the  utricles not etie full P3 Murray 
with still dark ger glumes F. Mueller on the 
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D S CONNU Boott in Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 10 
Peso H to 2ft.high. Leaves often as E vnm pen the lowest distant 
