448 CXLIII. CYPERACEJE. [ Carex. 
the long rather broad leaves of C. longifolia, but the floral ones or outer 
bracts, though very long, without sheaths or with only very short ones. 
Spikelets 4 to 6, the terminal one. male, narrow, 1 to 1i in. long and 
the axils on short or the lower ones on long peduncles. umes nar- 
Victoria. Mounts Baw-Baw, Arnott and Julliete; Upper Yarra, Tarwan, Latrobe 
and Goulburn Rivers, ascending to 4000 ft., F, Mueller. 
28. C. longifolia, R. Br. Prod. 242.—Stems 2 to 3 ft. high, 
with long rather broad leaves, the lower floral ones or outer 
the terminal one male, 1 to 14 in. long, often accompanied by a cluster 
of shorter ones all male or partially female, the others all pedunculate 
and female or with a few male flowers at the base or at the top, 1 to, 
in. long, the peduncles slender and usually clustered 2 to 4 together imn 
the axils of the long leaflike outer bracts or floral leaves, the sheaths 
of the lower ones long. umes scarious, rather broad, acuminate or 
obtuse and aristate, the keel usually prominent. Utricles oblong 
elliptical, stipitate, prominently 3-angled, tapering into an en ire OF 
2-toothed beak, nearly 3 lines long including the beak. Style-branches 
3. Nut short, prominently 3-angled.— Boott, Ill. Car. iii. 108, t. 331, 332; 
h ; Hook. Tasm. ii ; F. Muell . 
a . " Q 
viii. 250; C. Brownei, Steud. Syn. Glum. ii. 209 
Queensland. Upper Brisbane River, F. Mueller; South Queensland, Hartman, 
N. S. Wales. Paterson River, my Richmond, Woolls ; Richmond, 
Macleay and Clarence Rivers, Beckler ; Hastings River, C. Moore. 
Victoria. Ballan, Cobberas Mountains, Tambo River, F. Mueller. 
Derwent and South Esk Rivers, Gunn ; Swanport, Story. 
29. C. pseudocyperus, Linn. ; Kunth, Enum. ii.501.—Stems non 
angular, 2 to 3 it. high. Leaves long, 2 to 5 lines broad. Spikelets 
to 5, all pedunculate and at length pendulous, but usually near toge- 
to 2 in 
of the northern specimens.—I. Br. Prod. 243 ; F. Muell. gon 
aseieularis, Soland. ; Boott, Ill. Car. i 58, t. 189; Ho" 
"d i Boyne River, Hartman: E 
N.S. Wales. Newcastle, 2. debe, ; Paramatta, Woolls ; north of Bathurst 
A. Cunningham ; New England, C. Stuart ; Castlereagh River, C. Moore. 
