402 ; . -OXXII, IRIDEX. [ Patersonia. 
Leaves about 2 lines broad or 
Leaves woolly on the edges j 
Wool of the spike dose. ET Tik y. Eastern species. . 11. P, sericea. 
. Wool of the Espaini copious but loose. Western species . 12. P. lanata. 
Leaves woolly all over Lee the base. Western sies . 13. P. rudis 
Leaves glabrous or hai he Pa ase 
ter 
puer or pale, stro ae i e, e, glabrous or ih silky 
ai minal-tube (always "S long and u 
Outer br 3i in. long, silky-hoary. Stem wa piee Leaves 
glabrous, 3 lines broad 14. P. macrantha. 
iu bracts a about 2 in. long, silky- hoary. Stem elo ongated. 
Leaves glabrous or haj e edges, 2 lines broad or xn ess 15. P. glabrata. 
Outer [ien about 14 in ag cps glabrous, glaucous. Stem v 
red I es 1 line broad, the margins prominent, in $ 
16. P, Drummondü. 
Outer Pacis lt 014 in. Ie long, the 2nd conspicuously higher 
d than S very 
fria — congaed. luae es J rigid, Taig at the i 
base. S . 17. P. inaequalis. 
Stems very e alas iosi bulbou ug. Lenves rass-like, gla- 
Adam t the mw 18. P. graminea. 
gulis s RT . 19. P. babianoides. 
uca, R. Br. Prod. 3 ceedingly short, clustered 
idi me, with a few outer cad ee scales, graduall 
passing into erect rigid leaves, the longest from 3 t ong and 1 
nearly 2 lines broad, rather less flat than in P. A oni ge the 
dg no ned. capes usually eb shorter than the leaves, 
inner ones at dese daolit , scarcely more t an 11 Staminal 
column short, divided t o shout the middle. Style slebtly "ihiekened at 
the end, the "exordio ovate, but I do not find the fringes of E cilia 
figured by Endlicher from Bauer’s drawing.—Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 
34; -Bot. Mag. t. 2677 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1182 ; Endl. Iconogr. t. 90; 
T Sragilis, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. i. 13, t .95 F. Muell. Fragm. 
N. S. W Hunter's river, R. Brown; New England, C. Stuart. 
T MEE river, F. Mueller. r 
Dalrym mple, R. Brown; ; abundant in wet peaty soils in the 
iis parti “ob the’ island, J. D. Hoo. , 
d scapa, Sweet, Fl. Austral, t. 90. A glabrous plant like 
P. ilem and P. occidentalis, but the leaves usually shorter, and whether 
short or long the scape almost Avin still longer. Leaves flat and the 
margins often nerve-like „asin P. occidentalis, of which this may be a 
_variety. Scape eR thickened and striate close under the spike, 
but. the outer Sot fully 14 in. long, quite smooth or very obscurely 
